Opinion editor Matthew T. Hall writes that this week’s state Senate confirmation hearing for the governor’s Department of Environmental Sciences nominee didn’t give him hope for the future.

A proposed bill in South Carolina could legalize casinos in specific counties, potentially bringing new casinos close to ...

Mahdi is the fifth inmate executed by South Carolina in less than eight months as the state makes its way through prisoners who ran out of appeals during an unintended 13-year pause on executions ...

Mikal Mahdi’s execution came about a month after the first person in state history was killed in such a manner. Before that, ...

The Upstate region of South Carolina was saved by foreign companies after the fall of its textile industry. Now, tariffs pose ...

Shrimper Bryan Jones welcomes President Donald Trump’s import tariffs. But he writes that the state must act sooner to help the shrimping industry in South Carolina now.

For the second time in 36 days, a firing squad execution has been carried out in South Carolina. Mikal Mahdi, 42, died Friday ...

South Carolina executed a man by firing squad on Friday after appeals were denied by the state and U.S. Supreme Courts earlier this week. Mikal Mahdi, 42, was convicted in the 2004 killings of an ...

South Carolina kills inmate Mikal Mahdi by firing squad in state’s second execution in a hail of bullets in 5 weeks COLUMBIA, S.C. -- South Carolina kills inmate Mikal Mahdi by firing squad in ...

South Carolina prison officials put a man to death by firing squad for the second time in just over a month when they ...