Michelle Liu | Associated Press

The South Carolina Supreme Court has issued a temporary stay halting the state from carrying out plans for its first-ever firing squad execution. Wednesday's order by the state’s high court temporarily halts a scheduled April 29 execution of inmate Richard Moore.

Police say they have identified two more suspects in a Saturday shootout inside a crowded Columbia, South Carolina, mall in which nine people were shot.

Ten people have been shot and two others injured in a shooting at a shopping mall in South Carolina's capital. Columbia Police Chief Skip Holbrook said three people have been detained and authorities do not believe the Saturday afternoon shooting at Columbiana Centre was random.

Lawyers for two men on South Carolina's death row have asked the state's Supreme Court to hold off on setting execution dates while they challenge a new law allowing executions by firing squad.

The brother of Irvin D. Moorer Charley, a Black man shot to death by a deputy in South Carolina over the weekend, says he begged the deputy not to shoot and warned of the man’s mental health issues beforehand.

All-Star Bowling Lanes, a shuttered bowling alley at the center of a 1968 integration protest where state police killed three Black students in Orangeburg, South Carolina, is being remade into a civil rights center.

A group of South Carolina lawmakers have advanced a proposal to ban all abortions in the state should the U.S. Supreme Court allow it.

Former Rock Hill, South Carolina, police officer Jonathan Moreno, who apologized after attacking a Black man named Travis Price without provocation at a traffic stop last year is seeking for a jury to acquit him of a misdemeanor charge stemming from the incident.

A South Carolina House committee has approved set of proposed maps that would shape the state’s House districts for the next decade. The House Judiciary Committee's Tuesday vote advances the maps redrawing 124 districts to the full chamber.

Authorities have released 911 calls made by prominent South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh and two motorists after a Sept. 4 roadside shooting in which a bullet grazed Murdaugh's head. A woman passerby says on one call she saw a man bloodied and waving his hands on the roadside but she didn’t stop because it looked — in her words — “like a setup.”