Michelle Liu | Associated Press
Michelle Liu is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.
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The South Carolina Supreme Court on Thursday set an execution date for one of two death row prisoners suing the state over a new law forcing inmates to choose between dying by firing squad or electric chair.
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South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster issued an executive order Tuesday letting parents opt their children out of wearing masks in public schools, citing widespread coronavirus vaccine access for adults across the state.
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Any visitor to Rock Hill, South Carolina, soon learns its nickname, “Football City, USA.” Now the city known for incubating professional talent has been shaken by a mass shooting by a former NFL player whose father said “football messed him up.”
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Police were able to quickly identify a former NFL player as the primary suspect in a shooting at a York County, South Carolina home that left six dead earlier this month because the ex-athlete left his iPhone behind at the scene, according to newly released search warrants.
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A federal judge on Friday rejected a legal challenge by the operator of North Carolina's two casinos, saying that the tribe had no grounds to oppose a competitor's plans for a third gambling operation in the state.
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South Carolina moved one step closer Wednesday to becoming the 48th state in the nation to pass a hate crime law. A proposal would allow harsher penalties for killings, assaults and other violent crimes motivated by hatred for someone’s race, color, religion, sex, gender, national origin, sexual orientation or physical or mental disability — all protected groups recognized by federal law.
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U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham joined South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster on Tuesday in criticizing the sweeping voting and ethics legislation that passed the U.S. House last month along mostly partisan lines.
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South Carolina will put $6 million in pandemic relief dollars toward new community computer labs running Apple products. Gov. Henry McMaster announced Tuesday that the free labs will be created in partnership with Benedict College and the University of South Carolina.
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The federal government has approved a revenue-sharing agreement between the Catawba Indian Nation and the state of North Carolina that clears the way for a casino near the state’s southern border.
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Starting Monday, restaurants and bars in South Carolina will be able to sell alcohol after 11 p.m. again, and event organizers will no longer have to secure permits for groups of more than 250 people.