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. 15, 2023 at 12:39 PM EDT
|By Steven Ardary
Drivers in South Carolina will notice little difference in the price of a gallon of gas over the past week.
Updated: May. 10, 2023 at 12:34 PM EDT
|By Steven Ardary
The city of Georgetown says an audit is underway after discovering some commercial properties had incorrect stormwater bills.
Updated: May. 9, 2023 at 12:17 PM EDT
|By Steven Ardary
A fire in the town of Andrews Tuesday morning ripped through a shopping center destroying two stores in its wake.
Updated: May. 8, 2023 at 7:25 PM EDT
|By Steven Ardary and Melissa Rademaker
Attorneys representing the family of Alex Murdaugh’s former housekeeper are expected to provide details about an ongoing lawsuit against Murdaugh and the settlement their clients never received.
Updated: May. 4, 2023 at 7:57 AM EDT
|By Steven Ardary
Governor Henry McMaster is set to sign a bill that would allow families to get money from the state to send their kids to private schools.
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. 1, 2023 at 6:15 AM EDT
|By Steven Ardary
A GasBuddy survey shows gas prices are 8.4 cents lower over the past week, bringing the state’s average to $3.21 per gallon.
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 9:42 AM EDT
|By Steven Ardary
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster took to Twitter Monday in an effort to steer the state’s general assembly to act on guns before the end of the session.
Updated: Apr. 24, 2023 at 5:19 PM EDT
|By Anna Harris and Steven Ardary
A man who tried to evade deputies serving a warrant led to the Charleston County Sheriff’s Office’s largest seizure of pure fentanyl.
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. 17, 2023 at 6:33 AM EDT
|By Steven Ardary
Gas prices in South Carolina have seen another jump in price over the past week.
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. 11, 2023 at 12:24 PM EDT
|By Steven Ardary
The Isle of Palms Police Department says only five people were injured in a shooting on the beach Friday.
Updated: Mar. 31, 2023 at 11:05 AM EDT
|By Steven Ardary
When an 18-year-old dog named Binky arrived at a Lowcountry animal shelter it was clear he was in desperate need of medical attention.
Updated: Mar. 23, 2023 at 12:18 PM EDT
|By Steven Ardary
Fire investigators are working to determine the cause of an early-morning fire that has devastated a childhood development center in Summerville.
Updated: Mar. 22, 2023 at 10:25 AM EDT
|By Marissa Lute and Steven Ardary
Attorneys representing the family of a Hampton County teen found dead in the middle of a Hampton County road in 2015 say the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division has deemed the death as a homicide.
Updated: Mar. 21, 2023 at 1:06 PM EDT
|By Steven Ardary
Fred and Betty Abdon are no strangers to the Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania Chick-Fil-A.
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. 17, 2023 at 6:15 PM EDT
|By Steven Ardary
A former Citadel cadet was sentenced on Wednesday for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riots.
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. 5, 2023 at 8:50 PM EST
|By Steven Ardary, Patrick Phillips and Jeffrey Collins and James Pollard
The judge in the Alex Murdaugh murder trial has passed his sentence a day after a jury convicted the disbarred Lowcountry attorney of murdering his wife and son.
Updated: Mar. 3, 2023 at 10:12 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary and Jeffrey Collins and James Pollard
The defense attorneys who represented disbarred Lowcountry attorney Alex Murdaugh during his murder trial plan to speak with reporters Friday morning.
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 7:11 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary, Blair Sabol and Michal Higdon
The jury in the Alex Murdaugh murder trial has convicted the disbarred Lowcountry attorney with the murders of his wife and son.
Updated: Mar. 2, 2023 at 6:44 PM EST
|By Steven Ardary, Blair Sabol, Michal Higdon and Patrick Phillips
Alex Murdaugh’s defense team used closing arguments in his double-murder trial to make a plea to jurors and claim Murdaugh was the only target for state agents.
Updated: Mar. 1, 2023 at 4:58 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips and Steven Ardary
Attorneys in the Alex Murdaugh murder trial are expected to deliver their closing arguments beginning Wednesday after jurors visited the scene of the killings of the disbarred Lowcountry attorney’s wife and son in June of 2021.
Updated: Feb. 28, 2023 at 5:29 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary and Cameron Bopp
Prosecutors are expected to call two rebuttal witnesses in the Alex Murdaugh murder trial Tuesday, a day after the defense rested its case.
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. 26, 2023 at 6:00 AM EST
|By Steven Ardary, Patrick Phillips, Cameron Bopp and Blair Sabol
In week five of the Alex Murdaugh double-murder trial, jurors heard a full week of witnesses the defense called.
Updated: Feb. 25, 2023 at 7:19 AM EST
|By Patrick Phillips and Steven Ardary
Disbarred Lowcountry attorney Alex Murdaugh will return to the stand Friday morning to face more questions as he stands trial for murder.
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. 22, 2023 at 5:17 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary and Blair Sabol
Alex Murdaugh’s attorneys could wrap up their case by the end of the week as they attempt to prove that the disbarred Lowcountry attorney did not kill his wife and youngest son.
Updated: Feb. 21, 2023 at 7:05 PM EST
|By Steven Ardary, Blair Sabol and Cameron Bopp
Alex Murdaugh’s surviving son took the stand Tuesday morning in the double murder trial of his mother and brother.
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. 19, 2023 at 6:00 AM EST
|By Steven Ardary, Patrick Phillips and Blair Sabol
The fourth week of the trial saw two jurors released because of COVID-19, Maggie Murdaugh’s sister taking the stand and a timeline that combined weeks worth of data.
Updated: Feb. 18, 2023 at 3:26 PM EST
|By Steven Ardary, Blair Sabol and Melissa Rademaker
Prosecutors rested their case in the Alex Murdaugh double murder trial by showing the jury all the cell phone and GPS data they presented in one bite-size testimony.
Updated: Feb. 17, 2023 at 4:41 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary, Blair Sabol and Melissa Rademaker
The state presented evidence from updated technology in the SUV that Alex Murdaugh was driving the night his wife and son were murdered on the 20th day of the Murdaugh trial.
Updated: Feb. 16, 2023 at 5:31 PM EST
|By Steven Ardary, Blair Sabol and Melissa Rademaker
Alex Murdaugh told state agents that the man he asked to shoot him on the side of a Hampton County road in September 2021 was not involved in the murders of Murdaugh’s wife and youngest son.
Updated: Feb. 16, 2023 at 5:16 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary and Blair Sabol
Prosecutors are nearing the end of their case against Alex Murdaugh, the disbarred Lowcountry attorney charged with the 2021 murders of his wife and son.
Updated: Feb. 15, 2023 at 10:55 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary and Blair Sabol
The judge in the Alex Murdaugh murder trial is expected to decide Wednesday morning whether the jury will hear testimony about the shooting that nearly killed the former attorney months after the 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. 12, 2023 at 6:00 AM EST
|By Steven Ardary, Patrick Phillips, Marissa Lute and Blair Sabol
Week three of the Alex Murdaugh murder trial had lots of talk about his financial misdeeds, loud objections and a bomb threat.
Updated: Feb. 10, 2023 at 8:43 PM EST
|By Steven Ardary
The Murdaugh family’s former housekeeper testified Friday that Maggie Murdaugh was worried about money because of litigation the family was facing with the boat crash.
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