Adam Mintzer
Reporter
Columbia, SC
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Sen. Davis, R-Beaufort, says his bill is “very conservative” while also allowing doctors to give patients suffering from debilitating health conditions like Chron’s, PTSD, and chronic pain.
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South Carolina pediatricians are worried the number of children hospitalized with COVID-19 in the state will soon break records.
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South Carolina’s top educator has one more year left in office, but the 12 months between now and Superintendent Molly Spearman’s retirement are not projected to be easy.
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While the beds aren’t full in South Carolina ICUs during the first few days of the New Year, doctors say they are getting worried.
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Doctors on the front lines of the fight against COVID-19 at the Medical University of South Carolina are exhausted.
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These rising wait times come despite staff saying about 15 people were working Monday compared to the four or five who were working in a couple of weeks before Christmas.
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COVID-19 cases in South Carolina are higher than they have been since October and with Christmas around the corner people are lining up to get tested before seeing family.
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This holiday season, last-minute shoppers may be at an advantage. Some South Carolina small business owners say they are still getting inventory from vendors days before Christmas that they had hoped would arrive by November or early December.
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The threat of Omicron, a rise in COVID cases due to increased holiday travel, and other seasonal viruses has South Carolina health officials on guard this winter. However, they hope wider availability of rapid COVID test kits will help keep South Carolinians safe.
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Almost 600 miles away from Mayfield, Kentucky, two South Carolina residents are working to help their hometown after tornados turned the city into rubble and killed, injured, and displaced residents.
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A judge set bond Monday morning for Lowcountry attorney Alex Murdaugh along with several conditions in connection to 21 new charges filed against him last week.
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More than three times this semester she has called her Mom in distress after hearing of classmates who have taken their own lives.
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Some familiar faces will be on your TV screens during The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
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A Lexington County elementary school teacher is accused of having weed edibles in her student prize box, according to Lexington County Sheriff Jay Koon.
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According to court records, both men are charged with presenting a false claim for an insurance payment.
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The video appears to show one student on the ground with his hands cuffed behind his back.
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On Saturday, a fundraiser was held for the mother of Stephen Smith, 19, whose 2015 hit-and-run death is now being looked into again.
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A popular roadside attraction along the North Carolina and South Carolina border is under construction as they remodel.
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“The Satterfield’s and the Murdaugh law firm have reconciled their differences,” said the Satterfield estate’s attorney Eric Bland. Bland said he could not comment further.
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A teacher at Clear Dot Charter School in Columbia has been fired following accusations of writing the n-word on his class’ board.
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Sam Laundon was reported missing the afternoon after a house party in 2020, according to RCSD.
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Price believes the tension at these meetings is so high right now because national debates, in particular about COVID-19 mitigation, have become localized.
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A South Carolina prison correctional officer can spend up to half of their 12-hour shift locking and unlocking cell doors, according to the agency director.
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A TikTok video showing a South Carolina man saying he fired more than 40 employees for being vaccinated has been viewed more than 80,000 times.
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With scheduled public hearings over for the state senators and representatives, elected officials are getting ready to start to redraw the state’s district maps.
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In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, health officials told South Carolinians to isolate, slow the spread, and flatten the curve.
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The bipartisan infrastructure bill got 69 votes in the U.S. Senate, 19 from Republicans.
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In South Carolina, vaccine hesitancy has been common amongst young people who are eligible for the shot.
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The ruling from the SC Supreme Court is just the latest chapter of the Heritage Act’s story.
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Butler says her ultimate goal is to bring the rate of suicides among South Carolina service members to zero.
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One of the people aboard the boat that crashed and killed Mallory Beach in 2019 is now suing Alex and Buster Murdaugh.
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Sattefield died from injuries she sustained after “a trip and fall accident,” according to the settlement.
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WH Press Secretary: SC politicians should ‘get out of the way’ of health experts on COVID mitigation
When asked what the next steps the Biden Administration is prepared to take in response to this limit on mask requirements, Psaki said they are prepared to support schools who may need it.
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The relevant dates in the case go beyond what has happened in the past few months.
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Murdaugh’s lawyer, Jim Griffin, says family told him there was an entry and exit wound, Murdaugh’s skull was fractured, and there was minor brain bleeding.
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Since the beginning of September, 15% of new COVID-19 cases were among kids ages 10 or younger.
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The South Carolina Supreme Court suspended the law license of a Lowcountry attorney who was wounded in a reported shooting two months after his wife and son were killed in Colleton County.
Murdaugh’s law firm said he took money from the business.
Alex Murdaugh released a statement Monday afternoon after he was shot along a rural road in Hampton County Saturday afternoon.
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With the start of college football season in South Carolina happening at the same time as a third-day holiday weekend in the midst of a surge in COVID-19 cases, health experts are concerned things can get worse.
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The U.S. Supreme Court has so far been silent on Texas’ ban on abortions after six weeks, allowing the law to take effect Wednesday.
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The school year just started, but grades are already starting to come in for South Carolina schools.
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More than half of all the COVID-19 cases reported in a statewide, voluntary survey on the spread of the coronavirus in South Carolina were asymptomatic.
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Mark Sanford was South Carolina’s governor, a congressman, a presidential candidate, and the center of a political scandal.
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Officials with the Medical University of South Carolina said they currently have 12 children hospitalized with COVID in their facilities, with three of those children in the ICU and on ventilators.
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The state’s unemployment rate dropped from 4.5% in June to 4.3% in July. According to the Department of Employment and Workforce, 10,217 more people were working in July than in June of 2021
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Federal lawsuits, statements from teacher advocacy groups, and petitions from doctors and pediatricians have not swayed Gov. Henry McMaster from his position on masking in schools.
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McMcMaster responded to this and the Biden administration’s determination to allow mask requirements to be put in place in schools Friday by repeating masking should be up to a child’s parents.
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With college students back on campus and hanging out with their friends, experts want everyone to keep up their guard against unknowingly being drugged – especially when in entertainment districts.
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Hundreds of more are in quarantine because of possible exposure to the coronavirus.
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