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Officials announced Tuesday that a huge new data center is headed to upstate South Carolina.
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Book Cover/Carnegie Mellon UniversityIn 1863, abolitionist Harriet Tubman guided a raid that liberated nearly 760 enslaved people working on rice plantations along the Combahee River near Beaufort, South Carolina. Dr. Edda Fields-Black, a history professor at Carnegie Mellon University, wrote a book about the raid titled "Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War." It shares the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for History. WFAE’s Gwendolyn Glenn speaks with Fields-Black. -
Weather Prediction Center/National Oceanic Atmospheric and AdministrationThe National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says an "atmospheric river" event is set to hit Florida and other parts of the Southeast. The weather event typically occurs in the West.
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The Vietnam veteran and former businessman got his diploma from South Carolina State University on Friday. He signed up for classes after hearing about the police killing of protesting students in 1968. -
In South Carolina, there are only days left in the legislative calendar this year. WFAE's Marshall Terry spoke with South Carolina Public Radio reporter Maayan Schechter about what's going on at the statehouse in Columbia. -
Your overgrown backyard could be cleared without chemicals, and for a third of the cost of hiring a landscaping crew — a team of goats can do the job exactly how nature intended. -
At issue is whether a state, in this case, South Carolina, can remove Planned Parenthood clinics from its state Medicaid program, even though Medicaid funds cannot generally be used to fund abortions. -
Florida ends UConn's bid to repeat — again — in Sunday action that saw a memorable buzzer-beater. Meanwhile, South Carolina advances in the women's tournament, which rounds out its Sweet 16 on Monday. -
For the first time in its modern history, South Carolina has executed a prisoner by firing squad. WFAE’s Tommy Tomlinson, in his “On My Mind” commentary, says the echoes of that moment will last far longer than a rifle shot. -
Bribery, extortion, influence peddling and money laundering are federal corruption charges three members of North Charleston’s city council face, stemming from a year-long FBI investigation. WFAE’s Gwendolyn Glenn talks to Glenn Smith, deputy managing editor for investigations with the Post and Courier, about the scandal. -
A South Carolina man who killed his ex-girlfriend's parents with a baseball bat was executed by firing squad Friday, the first U.S. prisoner in 15 years to die by that method. -
South Carolina plans to execute its first prisoner by firing squad on March 7 inside the same death chamber it's used for dozens of other executions. Firearms experts say that could be risky. -
The largest in North Carolina, about 400 acres, was at Uwharrie National Forest, about 50 miles east of Charlotte.
