The Latest Breaking News from SC

South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott has taken a significant step toward a presidential bid, launching an exploratory committee. Scott, 57, is the only Black Republican currently in the U.S. Senate.

Scott had been inching towards a 2024 presidential campaign.

The Navy has renamed the USS Chancellorsville, a name honoring a Confederate victory, to the USS Robert Smalls, after an enslaved man who escaped the South by stealing a Confederate steamship.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Dozens of critical habitat areas for threatened shorebirds will be protected after a U.S. District Court in Charleston handed down an order prohibiting three groups from harvesting horseshoe crabs on several of South Carolina’s beaches this season.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Before dawn on a steamy July day in 2015, Hampton County coroner Ernie Washington was called to an area of pine trees and cornfields, where a young man’s body was sprawled in the middle of the road.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — As many as six people were wounded in a shooting Friday along the Isle of Palms beach as hundreds of high school students from Charleston, Berkeley and Dorchester counties were enjoying a traditional spring day of cutting class.

We, the chroniclers, in order to help the People of the United States form a more perfect Union (or at least salvage the shaky, imperfect one we’ve got!) are today proposing a two-part effort that may be our best chance for re-establishing Justice and returning our homeland to a semblance…

A bench of Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and Justice J B Pardiwala said that they will not interfere with the Calcutta HC order. Read further on Dynamite News:

SC’s Nikki Haley raises $11 million in first 6 weeks of White House bid

South Carolina’s only Republican congresswoman wants to counter a state proposal that could result in women receiving the death penalty for having an abortion.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — After 235 days behind bars, Curtis “Eddie” Smith, whom indictments allege was Alex Murdaugh’s accomplice in various money laundering, drug and fraud schemes, can get out of jail on $250,000 bond — if he behaves himself, a state judge said Monday.