Jeffrey Collins | Associated Press
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A law restricting abortions in South Carolina after six weeks of pregnancy can take effect immediately in the state. The U.S. District Court in South Carolina on Monday lifted its prior hold on the enforcement of a state law passed last year that bans most abortions if an ultrasound detects a so-called fetal heartbeat, usually around six weeks into a pregnancy.
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The South Carolina General Assembly is returning to Columbia on Tuesday to consider nearly $53 million in local projects that Gov. Henry McMaster wants out of the $13.8 billion state budget.
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A deputy in South Carolina whose police van was swept away by floodwaters in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence, drowning two women seeking mental health treatment trapped in a cage in the back has been sentenced to 18 years in prison.
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South Carolina election officials are preparing for early voting for the first time in next month’s primaries. It's a different approach in an era where many other states are passing laws to make it harder to cast ballots early.
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South Carolina’s Republican governor has quietly signed into law a bill that would ban transgender students from playing girls’ or women’s sports in public schools and colleges.
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A prosecutor says a deputy in South Carolina charged in the deaths of two women who drowned in a locked police van in 2018 ignored barricades and drove into rapidly rising floodwaters against advice from his supervisors.
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Authorities in South Carolina say they've found the body Brittanee Drexel, a 17-year-old girl from New York who disappeared while visiting Myrtle Beach on spring break 13 years ago. They say a 62-year-old sex offender with an extensive record has been charged with murder, kidnapping and rape.
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A seven-year fight to pass a medical marijuana bill may have ended in South Carolina when a House leader ruled the proposal would mean a tax increase and could not be considered.
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South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster was put under anesthesia for about 10 minutes Wednesday to fix a minor irregular heartbeat. He was back at the governor's mansion two hours later.
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Supporters have urged South Carolina senators to pass a hate crimes bill in the last eight days they can take action on legislation. Backers of the bill turned Wednesday to one of the survivors of one of the most heinous racist shooting attacks in memory, the 2015 massacre at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, to press their case.