Tim Scott launches exploratory committee for 2024 presidential bid Scott had been inching towards a 2024 presidential campaign. Axios · Apr 12, 2023
A Navy ship named for a Confederate victory now honors a Black Union hero The Navy has renamed the USS Chancellorsville, a name honoring a Confederate victory, to the USS Robert Smalls, after an enslaved man who escaped the South by stealing a Confederate steamship. WEKU · Apr 12, 2023
Court order halts horseshoe crab harvesting on many SC beaches, protecting red knots COLUMBIA, S.C. — Dozens of critical habitat areas for threatened shorebirds will be protected after a U.S. District Court in Charleston handed down an order prohibiting three groups from harvesting horseshoe crabs on several of South Carolina’s beaches this season. Tribune News Service · Apr 9, 2023
Here’s what we know about the first Stephen Smith autopsy and the SC pathologist who performed it COLUMBIA, S.C. — Before dawn on a steamy July day in 2015, Hampton County coroner Ernie Washington was called to an area of pine trees and cornfields, where a young man’s body was sprawled in the middle of the road. Tribune News Service · Apr 8, 2023
Arrests made after 6 wounded in ‘senior skip day’ shooting on South Carolina beach COLUMBIA, S.C. — As many as six people were wounded in a shooting Friday along the Isle of Palms beach as hundreds of high school students from Charleston, Berkeley and Dorchester counties were enjoying a traditional spring day of cutting class. Tribune News Service · Apr 8, 2023
Martin Schram: Even historians can get trumped We, the chroniclers, in order to help the People of the United States form a more perfect Union (or at least salvage the shaky, imperfect one we’ve got!) are today proposing a two-part effort that may be our best chance for re-establishing Justice and returning our homeland to a semblance… Tribune News Service · Apr 7, 2023
WB Panchayat Poll: SC junks Suvendu Adhikari's plea against Calcutta HC order A bench of Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and Justice J B Pardiwala said that they will not interfere with the Calcutta HC order. Read further on Dynamite News: Dynamite News · Apr 6, 2023
News briefs SC’s Nikki Haley raises $11 million in first 6 weeks of White House bid Tribune News Service · Apr 5, 2023
Mace counters SC bill that says women could get the death penalty for having an abortion South Carolina’s only Republican congresswoman wants to counter a state proposal that could result in women receiving the death penalty for having an abortion. Tribune News Service · Apr 5, 2023
Smith, Murdaugh’s alleged accomplice in fraud schemes, will get out of South Carolina jail on bond COLUMBIA, S.C. — After 235 days behind bars, Curtis “Eddie” Smith, whom indictments allege was Alex Murdaugh’s accomplice in various money laundering, drug and fraud schemes, can get out of jail on $250,000 bond — if he behaves himself, a state judge said Monday. Tribune News Service · Apr 3, 2023
This SC city is the best for outdoor weddings in the US, new ranking shows. Why is it so special? COLUMBIA, S.C. — It’s no secret that South Carolina is known for its many beautiful attributes and accolades for ‘best of’ nationwide. Tribune News Service · Apr 3, 2023
Should SC’s governor have say over judges? Dem lawmaker joins calls to shake up process COLUMBIA, S.C. — A South Carolina Democrat is joining calls to give the governor more power and say over the election of state judges. Tribune News Service · Apr 2, 2023
NFHS Network’s Weekly Top 10 Basketball Highlights USA TODAY High School Sports is back with the final NFHS Network basketball Top 10 plays of 2023. USA Today Sports Media Group · Mar 31, 2023
USA TODAY Sports/NFCA High School Super 25 softball rankings: Week 4 Lake Creek keeps roaring atop USA TODAY Sports/NFCA High School Super 25. USA Today Sports Media Group · Mar 30, 2023
McClatchy Washington Bureau · Mar 30, 2023 Serra still represents California in DC. Here’s a lesson from Florida on replacing statues WASHINGTON — A California sculpture almost 3,000 miles away from home stood for nearly a century without much public controversy — until now.
Irish Mirror · Mar 29, 2023 Court told man accused of gruesome Frankie Dunne would not have been capable of butchering body in way it was found Philipp Rahn, SC, who is defending Mr Nicholescu made his closing speech to the jury at a murder trial which is being heard at the Central Criminal Court sitting in Cork.
The Independent UK · Mar 28, 2023 VIDEO FOR YOU: Senators react to Nashville school shooting EDITORS/NEWS DIRECTORS:
USA Today Sports Media Group · Mar 28, 2023 USA TODAY High School Sports boys basketball Super 25, week of March 27, 2023 New teams enter the mix in the latest USA TODAY High School Sports boys basketball Super 25.
Tribune News Service · Mar 27, 2023 This SC city ranks higher than Disneyland on list of 10 best US spring break vacation spots COLUMBIA, S.C. — The magazine Good Housekeeping picked the 10 best places in the United States to go for spring break.
The Philadelphia Inquirer · Mar 26, 2023 Mike Jensen: Sorry Temple fans, Dawn Staley is on higher ground chasing history at South Carolina GREENVILLE, S.C. — Let’s get this out of the way. Dawn Staley, pride of North Philly, is a fairly transcendent figure right now, beyond her own sport, maybe beyond sports entirely.
Tribune News Service · Mar 25, 2023 ‘His body is a crime scene’: Exhumation plans proceeding in Stephen Smith’s 2015 killing COLUMBIA, S.C. — Plans to exhume Stephen Smith’s body are proceeding rapidly and will involve a team of state and national experts, one of the attorneys for Stephen Smith’s mother said Friday.
The Independent UK · Mar 25, 2023 Bank failures and rescue test Yellen's decades of experience Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen worked against the clock with other regulators, lawmakers and business leaders to come up with a plan that would prevent a full blown banking crisis
Miami Herald · Mar 25, 2023 Greg Cote: Miami men, women both in Elite Eight on stunning, historic day for Hurricanes Well, this is a bit insane. The University of Miami — for the past 40 years “the football school” — climbed to the top of college basketball on Friday. On this day in history, UM owned the NCAA Tournament and March Madness. Might not last. Might not even last the…
Salon · Mar 24, 2023 Graham hit with ethics admonishment The Senate Ethics Committee scolded Graham for harming "public trust and confidence in the United States Senate"
Tribune News Service · Mar 24, 2023 Starbucks CEO focuses on new role, avoids labor issues in investor call Starbucks new CEO Laxman Narasimhan led his first shareholder annual meeting Thursday, facing investors' questions just days after he took over the role from longtime leader Howard Schultz.