South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster has named Darline Graham as her late brother Lindsey Graham’s temporary replacement in the U.S. Senate.

Eight South Carolina National Guard helicopter pilots have returned to flying duties after a suspension that followed a low flight over the state's beaches during a July 4 event.

South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson has won the GOP runoff election for governor, defeating the candidate President Donald Trump had initially backed.

Two of South Carolina’s top officeholders will compete one-on-one for the Republican nomination for governor in a primary runoff election on Tuesday.

Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette and state Attorney General Alan Wilson have advanced to a runoff for the Republican nomination for South Carolina governor while U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham won his own primary outright in his quest for a fifth term in November.

A family of four from Massachusetts who were killed when a bus crashed into multiple vehicles in Virginia were traveling to a wedding at the time.

Other southern states are advocating for South Carolina to remain the first to vote in the Democratic presidential primaries.

The South Carolina House has endorsed a plan to redraw its congressional districts to favor Republicans at the urging of President Donald Trump.

NextEra Energy is seeking to acquire Dominion Energy in an all-stock deal valued at about $67 billion, creating a massive power company as the energy needs of artificial intelligence drive demand higher in the U.S. It is one of the biggest proposed mergers so far this year and would create the world’s biggest regulated electric utility business by market capitalization, the companies said on Monday.

The South Carolina House is debating legislation that could redraw congressional districts to help Republicans possibly win an additional seat in the November elections.

State senators in Louisiana have passed a new congressional map after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the previous one.

President Donald Trump's efforts to reshape U.S. House districts have seen mixed outcomes.

South Carolina is the latest state to enter a redistricting battle after the U.S. Supreme Court severely weakened the Voting Rights Act.

A little more than a month after Geno Auriemma’s UConn women’s basketball team’s title bid ended with a Final Four loss to South Carolina, Auriemma reflected on his heated postgame exchange with South Carolina coach Dawn Staley.

Mark Sanford has ended his bid to reclaim his old congressional seat.

The Supreme Court is clearing the way for a veteran wounded by a suicide bomb in Afghanistan to sue the government contractor for whom the attacker was working when he built the explosive.

Scientists are using controlled fires to study how to protect homes from wildfires.

South Carolina women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley says it is time to move past her Final Four skirmish with UConn coach Geno Auriemma that became the talk of the tournament.

Cori Close and the UCLA Bruins are going to have to work hard to repeat as champions.

South Carolina’s quest to win a fourth national title ended in ugly fashion for a second straight season when the Gamecocks lost to UCLA 79-51 in the NCAA women’s basketball title game.

Gabriela Jaquez scored 21 points, Lauren Betts added 16 and UCLA routed South Carolina 79-51 Sunday to win its first NCAA championship in women’s basketball.

UConn coach Geno Auriemma has apologized for his actions during a heated exchange with Dawn Staley at the end of the Huskies’ loss to South Carolina in the women’s Final Four.

Dawn Staley and South Carolina are back in a familiar place, reaching the NCAA championship game for the fourth time in five years.

UConn’s Geno Auriemma was not a happy man.

Ta’Niya Latson scored 16 and Agot Makeer added 14 points and South Carolina played stifling defense to beat UConn 62-48 on Friday night, ending the Huskies’ 54-game winning streak and advancing to the women’s NCAA Tournament championship game.

This year’s Final Four at the women’s NCAA Tournament features a quartet of powerhouse programs, teams that have overwhelmed almost all of their opponents with superior talent and veteran coaching.

Texas has added 28 more measles cases in the last two weeks. Most infections so far this year have occurred inside West Texas Detention Facility in Hudspeth County.

Joyce Edwards scored 24 points and Agot Makeer added 18 to help South Carolina beat TCU 78-52 to advance to the Final Four.

Mark Sanford is launching another run for Congress in South Carolina’s 1st District.

Ta’Niya Latson scored 28 points and Raven Johnson added 18 to help top-seed South Carolina beat No. 4 seed Oklahoma 94-68 on Saturday and advance to the Elite Eight of the women’s NCAA Tournament.

The Sweet 16 will have a definite SEC feel with six teams advancing from that conference to the second weekend of March Madness.

Siena flirted with pulling off an all-time shocking upset in March Madness when it faced No. 1 overall tournament seed Duke.

Madison Booker scored 18 points as the fourth-ranked Longhorns sprinted to a 14-0 lead and beat three-time defending champion and third-ranked South Carolina 78-61 on Sunday.

Raven Johnson scored a career-high 22 points, Joyce Edwards scored 15 of her 18 points in the second half and No. 3 South Carolina displayed its toughness by holding on to beat sixth-ranked LSU 83-77 on Saturday to advance to the Southeastern Conference Tournament championship game against No. 4 Texas.

South Carolina coach Dawn Staley said on social media that the school is working to try and help a few former players return home from Israel where they are playing professionally.

The Pan American Health Organization has issued an alert due to a surge in measles cases across the Americas, with Mexico reporting the highest numbers.

North Carolina and South Carolina have become two hot spots for growth in the United States.

Tens of thousands of people are entering their sixth day with no electricity as the Carolinas and Virginia prepare for a significant winter storm that could bring more snowfall than some parts of North Carolina have seen in years.

The Southeastern Conference has set a record with 10 teams in The Associated Press women's Top 25 basketball poll.

Aaliyah Chavez scored 15 of her 26 points in overtime as No. 16 Oklahoma stunned No. 2 South Carolina 94-82 on Thursday night.

Tessa Johnson and Madina Okot each scored 18 points to lead third-ranked South Carolina over Providence 96-55, but the Gamecocks also lost guard Ta’Niya Latson to injury.

Texas has climbed to No. 2 in the AP Top 25 women's basketball poll after defeating two top teams in a Thanksgiving tournament.

Jordan Lee scored 19 points and Rori Harmon made a 10-foot floater with a second left to lift No. 4 Texas over No. 2 South Carolina 66-64 in the women’s title game of the Players Era Championship.

Marcel Reed threw three touchdown passes in the first quarter before sitting down early in the second as No. 3 Texas A&M built a huge early lead and rolled to a 48-0 win over FCS school Samford.

The family of enslaved potter David Drake — known as “Dave the Potter” — has reclaimed two rare stoneware jars he created in South Carolina before the Civil War in what experts call the first major U.S. art restitution case involving works made by an enslaved person.

Joyce Edwards had 17 points and 10 rebounds as No. 2 South Carolina defeated eighth-ranked Southern California 69-52.

A Texas trooper who had an altercation with South Carolina’s Nyck Harbor after his touchdown was sent home from the game, according to the state Department of Public Safety.

A Texas trooper who had an altercation with South Carolina’s Nyck Harbor after his touchdown was sent home from the game, according to the state Department of Public Safety.

Marcel Reed threw for a career-high 439 yards and three touchdowns and No. 3 Texas A&M rallied from a 27-point halftime deficit to remain undefeated with a 31-30 victory over South Carolina.

The Democratic National Committee has started planning for the next presidential primary elections, potentially changing the early-voting calendar again.

Germie Bernard scored two touchdowns in the final 2 1/2 minutes, and No. 4 Alabama rallied to beat South Carolina 29-22 for its seventh straight win.

Some seniors say the Social Security Administration's cost-of-living adjustment won’t help much in their ability to pay for their daily expenses.

John Mateer threw for 150 yards and a touchdown while Oklahoma's defense sacked South Carolina's LaNorris Sellers six times in the 14th-ranked Sooners' bounce-back 26-7 victory.

A sheriff says his deputies continue their methodical investigation into a shooting at a South Carolina bar that killed four people and injured 16 others.

Authorities have identified four people who were killed during a weekend mass shooting at a bar on a South Carolina island.

South Carolina senior forward Chloe Kitts has announced she will miss the entire 2025 season after tearing her ACL.

A mass shooting at a crowded bar on the idyllic South Carolina island of St. Helena has left four people dead and at least 20 injured.

Tropical weather in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans is causing dangerous conditions in the United States, Mexico and the Caribbean.

State investigators are trying to find the cause of a fire that destroyed a judge's home on a South Carolina island.

Georgia farmers are still waiting for aid after Hurricane Helene, even as other states finalize agreements.

Crews have been preparing for a weather system forecast to hit South Carolina as a hurricane early next week.

Crews are preparing for a weather system forecast to near South Carolina as a hurricane early next week.

Former South Carolina quarterback Connor Shaw collapsed while coaching his 9-year-old son’s football team, according to media reports.

Vanderbilt checked a big item off its to-do list by beating South Carolina.

AP Top 25 ballots became even tougher to perfect as the dust settled on Week 3 of college football.

Vicari Swain returned a punt 80 yards for a touchdown to break open a close game, LaNorris Sellers threw a 64-yard touchdown pass to Nyck Harbor, and No. 13 South Carolina beat Virginia Tech 24-11 in the opener for both teams.

Dawn Staley said she would have felt compelled to leave South Carolina for the New York Knicks head coaching job if she'd been offered the position.

The Democratic National Committee is seriously considering scrambling the party’s next presidential primary calendar.

GE Appliances plans to shift production of refrigerators, gas ranges and water heaters out of China and Mexico as part of a more than $3 billion investment to expand its U.S. operations.

Kerrville Pets Alive is warning local families to keep their pets — and themselves — out of the Guadalupe River for the time being.

Workers at a South Carolina site that once made nuclear bomb parts have found a radioactive wasp nest.

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is set to headline a major Republican event in South Carolina.

A 12-year-old boy has died from a brain-eating amoeba after swimming in a South Carolina lake over the July Fourth weekend.

Two weeks after spending the Fourth of July on a popular South Carolina lake, 12-year-old Jaysen Carr died from a brain-eating amoeba that was living in the warm water.

A chief architect of Project 2025 is launching a Republican primary challenge to Sen. Lindsey Graham in South Carolina.

Kite, a human remains and detection (HRD) dog from South Carolina, is helping locate victims of the deadly Hill Country floods.

Tropical Storm Chantal has been downgraded to a tropical depression but is raising concerns of flash flooding in central North Carolina and south-central Virginia.

Tropical Storm Chantal has formed off the southeastern U.S. coast.

The Supreme Court is letting South Carolina block Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood.

Alan Wilson, the four-term Republican attorney general of South Carolina, kicked off his bid for the state’s first open gubernatorial race in 16 years.

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster has held a ceremonial bill signing in the hot summer sun to assure the air conditioners across the state will keep humming well into the future.

Mother Emanuel AME church made an ecumenical gesture for the commemoration of a racist shooting that killed nine of its Black members 10 years ago on Tuesday.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has keynoted the Democratic state conventions in South Carolina.

Authorities say a 19-year-old has been taken into custody in Illinois and they plan to charge him in a shooting that hurt 11 people after a party boat cruise in South Carolina.

Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people.

Authorities say 10 people were shot during a fight that started on a private boat holding a holiday weekend party on the South Carolina coast.

Congress has voted to kill a rule requiring U.S. rubber tire makers to clean up planet-warming emissions from their manufacturing processes.

South Carolina guard MiLaysia Fulwiley is officially in the transfer portal, according to a person with access to it.

A firing squad has executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer decades ago.

UConn has capped its season at No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25 women’s basketball poll one day after winning its 12th national championship.

Women’s college basketball has been on the rise these last few years, riding the wave of iconic players like Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese, Paige Bueckers and JuJu Watkins.

The journey has been more challenging than usual, but Dawn Staley and defending national champion South Carolina are still getting the job done.

Defending national champion South Carolina left no doubt it would return to the title game, getting 14 points from Te-Hina Paopao and overwhelming Texas 74-57 in the Final Four of the women’s NCAA Tournament.

Three of four teams in the women’s Final Four are No. 1 seeds.

The Supreme Court has appeared divided in a case over whether states should be able to cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood.

The Supreme Court will hear arguments in a South Carolina case over whether states can cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood.

The women’s Final Four is full of star players, top seeds and historic programs.

Chloe Kitts scored 14 points and defending national champion South Carolina reached the Final Four of the women’s NCAA Tournament for a fifth straight year, beating Duke 54-50.

Dawn Staley has seen a lot of growth in South Carolina star guard MiLaysia Fulwiley over the last few months.

MiLaysia Fulwiley scored 23 points, including a go-ahead layup with 2:22 left, and Chloe Kitts added 15 points and 11 rebounds to help No. 1 seed South Carolina beat fourth-seeded Maryland 71-67 in the Sweet 16 of the women's NCAA Tournament.