South Carolina to build first monument to an African American. Meet Robert...
South Carolina is preparing to put up its first individual statue for an African American on its Statehouse lawn, honoring a man who put on Confederate clothes in order to steal a slaveholder’s ship...
View ArticleAs Democrats court Nikki Haley supporters, the former UN ambassador is still...
Nikki Haley received more Republican Primary votes than anyone who challenged Donald Trump for this year’s presidential nomination. She has said she’s voting for him, and she released her delegates so...
View ArticleJurors, judge and former prison director all ask for mercy for condemned...
South Carolina death row inmate Richard Moore has more than 20 people asking the governor to spare his life in a clemency petition filed Wednesday, just two days before he is scheduled to die by lethal...
View ArticleJustices refuse to stop execution of South Carolina inmate who says the jury...
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday refused to stop the execution of South Carolina inmate Richard Moore, a Black inmate whose lawyers say he is the only person on the death’s death row convicted by a...
View ArticleSouth Carolina executes Richard Moore despite broadly supported plea to cut...
South Carolina put Richard Moore to death by lethal injection Friday for the 1999 fatal shooting of a convenience store clerk, despite a broad appeal for mercy by parties that included three jurors and...
View ArticleNancy Mace tries to cement her hold on her U.S. House seat in South Carolina
South Carolina Republican U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace is trying to cement her hold on her seat in a state that doesn’t mind sending people back to Congress for decades. There have been questions over whether...
View ArticleU.S. Rep. Nancy Mace wins a third term as she cements her support in South...
South Carolina Republican U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace on Tuesday cemented her hold on her seat in a state that doesn’t mind sending people back to Congress for decades. Mace defeated Democratic businessman...
View ArticleSouth Carolina to take a break from executions for the holidays
The South Carolina Supreme Court has decided the state should take a break from executions for the holidays. Justices issued an order on Thursday saying they would wait to sign the next death warrant...
View ArticleWith 13 newcomers, South Carolina Senate may tackle tough issues
With the largest number of newly elected members at least since World War II, Republican South Carolina Senate leaders are thinking about tackling some issues like tax reform that have long been too...
View ArticleFormer longtime South Carolina congressman John Spratt dies at 82
John Spratt, a former longtime Democratic congressman from South Carolina who successfully pushed for a balanced budget deal in the 1990s but was unseated decades later when his district turned...
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