ALAN WILSON

Alex Murdaugh’s murder trial brought a business boost and frenzy of attention to a small South Carolina town.

Prosecutors produced no direct evidence linking South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh to the killings of his wife and son, yet a jury took less than three hours to convict him.

Alex Murdaugh was found guilty of murdering his wife and son after less than three hours of deliberation by a South Carolina jury.

South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson says Alex Murdaugh’s decision to take the stand in his double murder trial, in which he was found guilty, was “fatal for him.”

The South Carolina attorney general and prosecutors who were on the Alex Murdaugh double murder case are reacting to a guilty verdict, saying that it was the result of a "Herculean effort."

During a demonstration in court Tuesday, Alex Murdaugh's defense attorney, Dick Harpootlian, playfully pointed a rifle at the prosecution table and said “tempting.”

Top state prosecutors are urging Congress to pass legislation allowing state prisons to jam signals of cellphones smuggled to inmates.

Alex Murdaugh slapped with new tax evasion indictment weeks before his murder trial is scheduled to begin for the slaying of his son Paul and his wife Maggie.

South Carolina's state Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in a lawsuit filed by Planned Parenthood South Atlantic challenging the state's six-week abortion ban.

South Carolina's top lawyer and Charleston appear to be heading to court to figure out if the city broke a state law protecting Confederate memorials when it removed a marker commemorating a rebel general from the front lawn of a public school. The stone memorial calling the street outside the school the “Robert E. Lee Memorial Highway” was removed in July at the request of leaders at the Charleston Charter School for Math and Science in downtown Charleston, city officials said. The highway was never constructed, so city officials decided the monument didn't fall under the state's Heritage Act, which protects statues, street names, markers and anything else considered historic from being changed or removed without permission of the state Legislature.

With Friday’s ruling, it’s not clear when the requirement may be put in place.

With Friday’s ruling, it’s not clear when the requirement may be put in place.

A federal appeals court panel on Friday allowed President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for larger private employers to move ahead. Circuit Court of Appeals reverses a decision by a federal judge in a separate court that had paused the mandate nationwide. Of the two ruling in favor of the OSHA mandate, one was appointed by a Democratic president and the other by a Republican. Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge said she would ask the U.S. Supreme Court to block the order. The vaccine requirement would apply to companies with 100 or more employees and would cover about 84 million workers.

A federal appeals court panel on Friday allowed President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for larger private employers to move ahead. Circuit Court of Appeals reverses a decision by a federal judge in a separate court that had paused the mandate nationwide. Of the two ruling in favor of the OSHA mandate, one was appointed by a Democratic president and the other by a Republican. Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge said she would ask the U.S. Supreme Court to block the order. The vaccine requirement would apply to companies with 100 or more employees and would cover about 84 million workers.

Two dozen Republican attorneys general are warning the White House of impending legal action if a proposed coronavirus vaccine requirement for as many as 100 million Americans goes into effect.

The plaintiffs are challenging a budget measure passed this summer that prevents South Carolina districts from using any state funding to require masks in schools. In papers filed last week, attorneys for McMaster — a Republican who has said repeatedly that parents alone should decide if children wear masks in schools — argued that the ACLU and its clients “have not alleged, and they cannot reasonably or plausibly allege, that Governor McMaster acted with bad faith or gross misconduct.”

The Midlands man pleaded guilty to multiple crimes, including two counts of attempted murder, the South Carolina attorney general said.

The state’s legal brief requests that a federal district judge’s order be reversed and asks the appeals court to dismiss the case on the grounds that the plaintiffs lack standing to bring suit against the law.

The new special prosecutor looking into the State House corruption investigation has brought fresh charges against Richard Quinn Sr., who once was one of the most influential political consultants in South Carolina.

SLED has set up a 24-hour tip line dedicated to taking tips on the Murdaugh case.

A more detailed autopsy report is typically created over a period of weeks.

A more detailed autopsy report is typically created over a period of weeks.

A more detailed autopsy report is typically created over a period of weeks.

COLUMBIA, S.C. – Twenty-nine inmates have been charged in connection with a South Carolina prison riot that left seven inmates dead and 22 injured in 2018, the state’s attorney general announced Thursday. The nearly eight hours of killings and chaos at the prison in April 2018 constituted the nation’s deadliest prison riot in nearly 25 years. All 1,200 inmates were put on lockdown for weeks after the unrest at the high-security prison, which houses violent offenders and inmates with demonstrated behavioral issues. The use of illegal cellphones to communicate led to the “mob riot,” Wilson said. An inmate was killed two weeks ago at the prison and an officer was stabbed there earlier this year.

Officials announced the severe move Wednesday after a cluster of new coronavirus cases grew to 22. Larry Hogan is imposing limits for operating hours and capacity of businesses amid a surge in coronavirus cases. The seven-day average number of new daily cases is above 1,400 for the first time since early August. The first-term Democrat said Tuesday that he hopes the limits will help curb soaring coronavirus cases in the state. Seven-day rolling averages of daily cases increased from 1,311 on Nov. 2 to 2,459 on Monday.