Updated: May. 25, 2023 at 8:49 AM EDT
|By Steven Ardary
Just in time for a holiday weekend, the Beach Reach shuttle is ready to head back into service.
Updated: May. 22, 2023 at 6:06 PM EDT
|By Steven Ardary
Lawyers for the woman charged in connection with an accident that killed a newlywed bride on Folly Beach have filed a motion for bond claiming she is not a threat to the community or a flight risk.
Updated: May. 18, 2023 at 7:58 AM EDT
|By Steven Ardary
Jimmy Buffett announced on Facebook that his Charleston concert scheduled for Saturday is getting postponed.
Updated: May. 17, 2023 at 5:21 PM EDT
|By Steven Ardary
A man involved in a Folly Beach crash on his wedding night that killed his bride and injured him and two others has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the accused driver and several Lowcountry restaurants and bars.
Updated: May. 3, 2023 at 7:31 AM EDT
|By Steven Ardary
Biologists with the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources identified the first two sea turtle nests of the new nesting season.
Updated: May. 2, 2023 at 5:22 PM EDT
|By Steven Ardary and Patrick Phillips
Folly Beach Police are releasing more details from a Friday night crash that killed a newlywed bride and seriously injured her husband and two others.
Updated: May. 2, 2023 at 4:48 PM EDT
|By Steven Ardary
The Medical University of South Carolina’s Public Safety Department has given the all-clear after investigating multiple reports of shots fired Tuesday morning.
Updated: May. 2, 2023 at 2:07 PM EDT
|By Brad Dickerson, Nikki Hauser, Steven Ardary, Patrick Phillips and Debra Worley
The driver accused of crashing into a golf cart and killing a bride just hours after her wedding reception was very unsteady and almost fell when asked to complete a field sobriety test, authorities said.
Updated: May. 1, 2023 at 5:17 PM EDT
|By Steven Ardary and Melissa Rademaker
A search for a missing child that began Sunday has continued through Monday afternoon but law enforcement has released no details about the child they are looking for or the circumstances of the disappearance.
Updated: Apr. 26, 2023 at 8:01 PM EDT
|By Steven Ardary, Blair Sabol, Patrick Phillips and Dylan Leatherwood
The South Carolina Supreme Court is vacating the order that released a convicted killer years before his sentence was up.
Updated: Apr. 25, 2023 at 5:32 PM EDT
|By Blair Sabol, Steven Ardary, Dylan Leatherwood and Patrick Phillips
The family of a Charleston man murdered in 2002 will speak at the State House in Columbia Tuesday morning to demand lawmakers take up a judicial reform package this year.
Updated: Apr. 21, 2023 at 12:17 PM EDT
|By Steven Ardary
Police have made another arrest in connection to an April shooting on an Isle of Palms beach.
Updated: Apr. 21, 2023 at 12:12 PM EDT
|By Blair Sabol, Dylan Leatherwood and Steven Ardary
Newly released documents are shedding light on why a convicted killer was released from prison years before his sentence was up.
Updated: Apr. 12, 2023 at 1:10 PM EDT
|By Steven Ardary
A new poll from Winthrop University shows support for former president Donald Trump is high among registered Republican voters in the Palmetto State.
Updated: Apr. 11, 2023 at 11:18 PM EDT
|By Anna Harris and Steven Ardary
The South Carolina governor will be flanked by local officials and the head of the state’s law enforcement division to push for harsher penalties for those in possession of illegal guns following a shooting on a Charleston County beach that injured five people Friday.
Updated: Apr. 10, 2023 at 3:30 PM EDT
|By Steven Ardary
Two children were killed after the SUV they were riding in went off the road in Orangeburg County and hit a tree.
Updated: Apr. 10, 2023 at 5:48 AM EDT
|By Steven Ardary
A GasBuddy survey shows gas prices in South Carolina jumped 16.3 cents over the past week to an average of $3.28 per gallon.
Updated: Apr. 3, 2023 at 9:14 AM EDT
|By Steven Ardary
State health officials are making it easier to access restaurant inspection histories.
Updated: Mar. 31, 2023 at 5:52 PM EDT
|By Steven Ardary and Jordan Gartner
A dog missing for three years is finally back home.
Updated: Mar. 27, 2023 at 7:13 AM EDT
|By Steven Ardary
Average gas prices in South Carolina saw a slight rebound, rising more than four cents over the past week.
Updated: Mar. 22, 2023 at 9:50 AM EDT
|By Marissa Lute, Steven Ardary and Amanda Alvarado
Stephen Smith was 19 years old when he was found dead on the side of a road in Hampton County, South Carolina, in 2015.
Updated: Mar. 20, 2023 at 4:55 PM EDT
|By Steven Ardary
Attorneys representing the family of a Hampton County teen found dead in the middle of the road in 2015 say they plan to petition a court to exhume the teen’s body as they seek justice in his killing.
Updated: Mar. 20, 2023 at 6:44 AM EDT
|By Steven Ardary
GasBuddy’s survey of more than 3,000 gas stations in the Palmetto State shows the average price per gallon fell 6.6 cents to $3.08 per gallon.
Updated: Mar. 10, 2023 at 12:38 PM EST
|By Steven Ardary
The former CEO of Palmetto State Bank is once again requesting a new trial. This time based on Alex Murdaugh’s testimony in his murder trial last month.
Updated: Mar. 8, 2023 at 1:02 PM EST
|By Steven Ardary, Dylan Leatherwood and The Associated Press
For more than 80 years, Alex Murdaugh’s father, grandfather and great-grandfather tried cases as elected prosecutors in the same court where Murdaugh was found guilty of murdering his wife and son.
Updated: Mar. 7, 2023 at 10:08 PM EST
|By Steven Ardary
A 71-year-old man shot his wife in the head before turning the gun on himself, deputies said.
Updated: Mar. 6, 2023 at 10:36 PM EST
|By Steven Ardary
A Lowcountry couple says their winnings are going towards retirement after purchasing a scratch-off ticket at a downtown store.
Updated: Mar. 6, 2023 at 7:01 PM EST
|By Steven Ardary
A U.S. district judge has denied the request of the former CEO of Palmetto State Bank for a new trial.
Updated: Mar. 6, 2023 at 7:16 AM EST
|By Steven Ardary
The average price for a gallon of gasoline in South Carolina rose 4.2 cents over the past week, wiping out last week’s drop and pushing the state average back above the $3-mark.
Updated: Mar. 3, 2023 at 12:09 PM EST
|By Steven Ardary, Patrick Phillips and Gray News staff
Disbarred attorney Alex Murdaugh received two consecutive life sentences Friday morning.
Updated: Mar. 2, 2023 at 9:41 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary, Blair Sabol and Gray News staff
Alex Murdaugh has been convicted of murder in the killings of his wife and son.
Updated: Mar. 1, 2023 at 5:46 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary and Gray News staff
The 12 jurors and two alternate jurors assembled Wednesday morning for a trip to the Colleton County property where Maggie and Paul Murdaugh were shot to death in June of 2021.
Updated: Feb. 27, 2023 at 5:00 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary and Molly McBride
The sixth week of the Alex Murdaugh murder trial began Monday morning at the Colleton County Courthouse with word that the jury will be able to see the rural property where Murdaugh’s wife and son were shot to death.
Updated: Feb. 23, 2023 at 5:42 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary, Cameron Bopp and Jeffrey Collins
Alex Murdaugh told the judge overseeing his murder trial he does plan to testify in his own defense.
Updated: Feb. 21, 2023 at 5:56 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary and Cameron Bopp
After a long weekend, the trial of Alex Murdaugh resumes Tuesday morning as his defense team works to prove he is not guilty of the 2021 murders of his wife and son.
Updated: Feb. 14, 2023 at 6:02 PM EST
|By Steven Ardary, Patrick Phillips and Jeffrey Collins
Alex Murdaugh’s defense team worked to establish doubt over testimony from the doctor who performed autopsies on Maggie and Paul Murdaugh and the man who took care of the dog kennels.
Updated: Feb. 13, 2023 at 9:01 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary, Marissa Lute and Jeffrey Collins
The fourth week of the Alex Murdaugh murder trial began with word from the judge that two jurors tested positive for COVID-19.
Updated: Feb. 9, 2023 at 5:52 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary, Marissa Lute and Blair Sabol
One of Alex Murdaugh’s closest friends took the stand Thursday morning in the Murdaugh murder trial.
Updated: Feb. 7, 2023 at 5:40 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary and Jeffrey Collins
The judge presiding over the Alex Murdaugh murder trial told the courtroom Tuesday that a juror had to go to the emergency room but that it would not affect the trial.
Updated: Feb. 6, 2023 at 5:17 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary and Jeffrey Collins
The judge presiding over the Alex Murdaugh murder trial will likely decide this week whether jurors will hear about the financial crime charges Murdaugh faces.
Updated: Feb. 3, 2023 at 10:30 PM EST
|By Steven Ardary and The Associated Press
Prosecutors at Alex Murdaugh’s double murder trial are asking a judge to allow jurors to hear from the son of the family's housekeeper who says Murdaugh promised to take care of them when she died in a fall, but kept a $4 million settlement for himself.
Updated: Feb. 3, 2023 at 10:19 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary and Jeffrey Collins
A judge is expected to hear additional testimony from banking officials Friday morning as he decides whether the jury in the Alex Murdaugh murder trial will hear it.
Updated: Feb. 2, 2023 at 5:54 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary and Jeffrey Collins
Some of the testimony in the Alex Murdaugh murder trial Thursday was heard without the jury being present.
Updated: Feb. 1, 2023 at 6:11 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary and Jeffrey Collins
State prosecutors claim a video taken on the night Paul and Maggie Murdaugh were killed at their Colleton County home puts Alex Murdaugh at the scene despite his telling investigators he wasn’t there.
Updated: Jan. 31, 2023 at 6:04 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips and Steven Ardary
The trial of Alex Murdaugh continued Tuesday morning with the defense cross-examining a South Carolina Law Enforcement Division investigator.
Updated: Jan. 30, 2023 at 10:06 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary and Jeffrey Collins
In a Colleton County courthouse Monday, prosecutors continued to present their case in the Alex Murdaugh murder trial.
Updated: Jan. 27, 2023 at 10:00 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary and Jeffrey Collins
Evidence collection and preservation continued as the main theme during day five of the Alex Murdaugh trial.
Updated: Jan. 26, 2023 at 6:59 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary, Jeffrey Collins and Blair Sabol
The prosecution called a deputy who responded to the scene of the June 7, 2021, double killing at Alex Murdaugh’s family property as its first witness in the murder trial of former Lowcountry attorney Alex Murdaugh Thursday morning.
Updated: Jan. 25, 2023 at 4:51 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary and Marissa Lute
Opening statements from each side show vastly different interpretations of what the state is calling key evidence in the Alex Murdaugh murder trial.
Updated: Jan. 24, 2023 at 5:31 PM EST
|By Steven Ardary, Marissa Lute and Patrick Phillips
A busy second day in the Alex Murdaugh trial saw the judge rule on three motions and qualify a fourth pool of jurors to return for actual jury selection.
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