Updated: May. 27, 2022 at 11:15 PM EDT
|By Ray Rivera and Live 5 Web Staff
Law enforcement officials say an armed robber wanted for killing an employee at a North Charleston business was arrested after he robbed a business in the Charleston area less than 24 hours after his first crime.
Updated: May. 17, 2022 at 12:58 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips and Ray Rivera
The Georgetown County Sheriff’s Office confirmed the man charged in the death of Brittanee Drexel confessed to the crime.
Updated: May. 7, 2022 at 2:46 PM EDT
|By Dylan Leatherwood, Ray Rivera and Jordan Gartner
Police in South Carolina are investigating an assault that involved an elementary school student and an assistant principal.
Updated: May. 7, 2022 at 7:20 AM EDT
|By Dylan Leatherwood and Ray Rivera
The Charleston Police Department says they responded to an assault at Drayton Hall Elementary School that sent the assistant principal to the hospital.
Updated: May. 6, 2022 at 4:40 PM EDT
|By Dylan Leatherwood, Ray Rivera and Emily Van de Riet
An elementary school assistant principal in South Carolina was sent to the hospital after she was assaulted by an 11-year-old student, police said.
Updated: May. 4, 2022 at 11:36 AM EDT
|By Ray Rivera and Emily Van de Riet
The body of a missing 5-year-old girl with autism was found in a river Tuesday night, officials in South Carolina said.
Updated: Apr. 12, 2022 at 5:52 PM EDT
|By Ray Rivera
Agents with the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division are investigating the death of a student at the College of Charleston.
Updated: Mar. 30, 2022 at 11:56 PM EDT
|By Ray Rivera
Investigators say a Lowcountry man who was out on bond for kidnapping two sisters and sexually assaulting one of them was arrested again for kidnapping a 12-year-old girl in Arizona.
Updated: Mar. 25, 2022 at 12:37 AM EDT
|By Ray Rivera
Jana Daley said the incident happened around 6:30 p.m. on Highway 52 in Moncks Corner and the rescuer was one of her drivers, who she identified as Damien Rose.
Updated: Mar. 2, 2022 at 1:17 PM EST
|By Ray Rivera
The Dorchester County Coroner has identified a 3-year-old who was found dead in a swimming pool at her residence Tuesday night.
Updated: Feb. 18, 2022 at 6:06 PM EST
|By Ray Rivera
South Carolina authorities have arrested an Upstate man after they say his grandson found a gun at his home then brought it to an elementary school to “shoot zombies.”
Updated: Feb. 8, 2022 at 11:45 PM EST
|By Ray Rivera
Troopers say 17-year-old Caleb Kennedy was driving a 2011 Ford pickup when it went onto a private drive and struck a building.
Updated: Feb. 2, 2022 at 6:25 PM EST
|By Ray Rivera
The Charleston County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a man who is accused of spray painting “no more masks” on a rock outside an elementary school.
Updated: Dec. 29, 2021 at 10:34 AM EST
|By Ray Rivera and Nick Reagan
The Charleston County Coroner’s Office says a 21-year-old and a 17-year-old were shot to death Monday night at a North Charleston apartment complex.
Updated: Dec. 16, 2021 at 11:46 AM EST
|By Ray Rivera
Police say a 3-year-old boy died after a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head at an apartment in Port Royal earlier this month.
Updated: Dec. 10, 2021 at 4:12 AM EST
|By Ray Rivera
Curtis Smith’s name was added to a lawsuit against Bank of America in which lawyers allege that the company bent the rules and ignored banking customs for Murdaugh.
Updated: Dec. 9, 2021 at 10:18 PM EST
|By Ray Rivera
South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson announced on Thursday that the South Carolina State Grand Jury has issued seven indictments consisting of 21 new charges against Alex Murdaugh.
Updated: Dec. 6, 2021 at 6:54 PM EST
|By Ray Rivera
North Charleston police officials said around noon on Monday officers were called after a suspicious bookbag was found.
Updated: Dec. 2, 2021 at 5:18 PM EST
|By Ray Rivera and Lisa Weismann
A Berkeley County couple has pleaded guilty to a federal charge accusing them of storming the U.S. Capitol building during the Jan. 6, 2021 riot.
Updated: Nov. 5, 2021 at 2:42 PM EDT
|By Ray Rivera
Police arrested two men who they say were involved in a road rage incident which led to the fatal shooting of a woman in the North Charleston area.
Updated: Oct. 1, 2021 at 8:13 PM EDT
|By Ray Rivera
Authorities say a man was found wearing a stolen rescue uniform after he crashed a stolen ambulance into a Publix supermarket in Beaufort County on Friday.
Updated: Sep. 28, 2021 at 11:40 PM EDT
|By Ray Rivera
The state law that keeps South Carolina school districts from implementing mask mandates in their schools was temporarily blocked by a federal judge on Tuesday.
Updated: Sep. 27, 2021 at 11:42 PM EDT
|By Ray Rivera
Officials with the United States Geological Survey have upgraded a quake in the Lowcountry to a 3.3 magnitude earthquake in the Charleston County area.
Updated: Sep. 15, 2021 at 11:43 PM EDT
|By Ray Rivera
Authorities with the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division said they are investigating the death of Alex Murdaugh’s housekeeper identified as Gloria Satterfield.
Updated: Sep. 15, 2021 at 5:23 PM EDT
|By WIS News 10 Staff and Ray Rivera
Alex Murdaugh’s lawyers have released a statement blaming Murdaugh’s recent life insurance fraud attempt on his opioid addiction.
Updated: Sep. 15, 2021 at 12:47 AM EDT
|By Ray Rivera
South Carolina Law Enforcement Division agents arrested Curtis Edward Smith in connection to the shooting of Alex Murdaugh.
Updated: Sep. 14, 2021 at 11:50 PM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer and Ray Rivera
In an insurance fraud warrant, SLED says Murdaugh gave 61-year-old Colleton County man Curtis Smith a weapon and told Smith to shoot him.
Updated: Sep. 10, 2021 at 4:06 AM EDT
|By Ray Rivera
Dr. Ken Stock, a staff infectious disease physician at Roper St. Francis Healthcare, was overcome with emotion in several instances in the video posted to the healthcare’s Facebook page as Stock related experiences of his past with that of today’s struggle against the coronavirus.
Updated: Sep. 8, 2021 at 8:38 PM EDT
|By Ray Rivera
Authorities released a report involving Barbara Crosby regarding an incident that happened at the DD2 Adult Learning Center.
Updated: Sep. 8, 2021 at 8:06 PM EDT
|By Ray Rivera
Officials with the Charleston Police Department say a loaded gun was found on a 56-year-old woman who went to the SC Aquarium and attacked a police detective after she refused to wear a mask.
Updated: Sep. 7, 2021 at 7:37 PM EDT
|By Ray Rivera
Prosecutors say he was captured by deputies from both the Georgetown County Sheriff’s Office and Charleston County Sheriff’s Office on U.S. 17 in the McClellanville area.
Updated: Aug. 22, 2021 at 11:49 PM EDT
|By Ray Rivera
The organization said Clair Baisley, Carla White, and Beth Collins died from COVID this past week.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2021 at 3:48 PM EDT
|By Ray Rivera
MUSC’s Public Safety Department arrested 60-year-old Freddie Brown on a charge of third-degree criminal sexual conduct.
Updated: Jul. 28, 2021 at 11:58 PM EDT
|By Ray Rivera
CPD officials said it happened in the area of Hanover Street and Johnson Street. Chief Luther Reynolds said authorities believe that the shooting started inside a building that continued outside.
Updated: Jul. 27, 2021 at 6:04 PM EDT
|By Ray Rivera
State health officials are recommending that all South Carolinians, including those who are fully vaccinated, wear masks when indoors and in public settings.
Updated: Jul. 22, 2021 at 6:17 PM EDT
|By Ray Rivera
Investigators with the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division have released 911 audio tapes in the Murdaugh murder case.
Updated: Jun. 21, 2021 at 6:15 PM EDT
|By Ray Rivera
Officials with the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division have released heavily redacted investigative reports on the murder investigation of Margaret Murdaugh and Paul Murdaugh.
Updated: Jun. 16, 2021 at 11:41 PM EDT
|By Ray Rivera
Charleston County deputies have arrested five people who they say conspired to steal dogs at a Johns Island home with two of the suspects impersonating police officers.
Updated: Jun. 16, 2021 at 5:19 PM EDT
|By Ray Rivera
The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division has set up a tip line for information regarding the murders of Margaret Murdaugh and Paul Murdaugh.
Updated: Jun. 16, 2021 at 3:28 PM EDT
|By Ray Rivera
A vehicle registration violation in Berkeley County led to the arrest of a wanted man and the discovery of a baby alligator in a book bag.
Updated: Jun. 15, 2021 at 3:38 PM EDT
|By Ray Rivera
Officials with the Charleston Police Department said Coming Street is closed at Bull Street due to a sinkhole that caused a section of the road about ten feet in diameter to collapse.
Updated: Jun. 14, 2021 at 11:40 PM EDT
|By Ray Rivera
Investigators with the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division arrested a former police officer with the Moncks Corner Police Department who is accused of having sex with a student at Berkeley High School while working as a school resource officer.
Updated: Jun. 8, 2021 at 4:26 PM EDT
|By Ray Rivera
Authorities have arrested an MUSC employee who is accused of firing a gun at her ex-boyfriend who police said was deflating her tires at a campus parking lot.
Updated: Jun. 3, 2021 at 11:37 PM EDT
|By Ray Rivera and Patrick Phillips
North Charleston police have announced that a fourth suspect has been arrested in connection to a mass shooting that killed 14-year-old Ronjanae Smith and injured 14 others.
Updated: May. 25, 2021 at 11:13 PM EDT
|By Ray Rivera and Nick Reagan
Charleston County Council has voted unanimously to settle the Jamal Sutherland case for $10 million. The finance committee earlier voted in favor of the settlement.
Updated: May. 24, 2021 at 9:37 PM EDT
|By Live 5 Web Staff and Ray Rivera
The family of a 14-year-old girl who died in a mass shooting over the weekend in North Charleston is speaking out about their call for justice in her killing.
Updated: May. 17, 2021 at 8:36 PM EDT
|By Ray Rivera
The two terminated employees are Detention Sergeant Lindsay Fickett and Detention Deputy Brian Houle, the Charleston County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.
Updated: May. 17, 2021 at 4:26 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips and Ray Rivera
Authorities have identified a man who was killed at a baby shower in Summerville over the weekend.
Updated: May. 14, 2021 at 11:39 PM EDT
|By Ray Rivera
Charleston County Sheriff Kristin Graziano said her goal is to be completely transparent while ensuring there is also due process and justice for all involved in the death of a man at the Charleston County jail.
Updated: May. 5, 2021 at 5:59 PM EDT
|By Ray Rivera
Authorities say Charleston County deputies were trying to serve an arrest warrant on a man who failed to register as a sex offender when they were shot at outside a home in Charleston County last month.