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Alex Murdaugh’s call to 911 after he was reportedly shot in Hampton County in September has been released.
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After more than three months, legal intervention, and a visit to town council, the man in charge of public safety in St. Stephen has finally turned over public documents that were requested under the South Carolina Freedom of Information Act, also known as FOIA.
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More than two years after a man died following a sedative injection from Charleston County EMS, a lawsuit has been filed against the county government and several of its employees.
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Newly released video shows the moment that a Charleston County jail deputy pushed a man in custody onto the floor, reportedly causing him to hit his head and lose consciousness.
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A trip to the hospital in South Carolina can lead to patients eventually losing part of their tax refund, and right now, Lowcountry counties are looking to collect tens of millions of dollars in ambulance debt.
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The chief of a Charleston County police department is facing a new lawsuit that accuses him of sending messages containing “sexually explicit, racist, demeaning, and inappropriate” images, including cartoon drawings of naked women and depictions of sexual acts.
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A Berkeley County fire department is violating South Carolina records law by refusing to turn over documents.
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Charleston County Sheriff Kristin Graziano criticized media reports Friday about an intelligence briefing compiled of news reports and social media posts on the death of Jamal Sutherland.
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As a result of orders from the top judge in South Carolina, defendants who hire some lawmakers to serve as their defense attorneys could have their trials delayed indefinitely.
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Newly released emails show the Charleston County Sheriff’s Office was monitoring social media posts of activists and at least one state lawmaker a day before the release of the Jamal Sutherland video.
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Newly released documents show that the two Charleston County jail employees who were fired months after Jamal Sutherland’s death had each previously been flagged repeatedly for use of force.
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Farm supply stores in the Lowcountry do not offer COVID-19 treatment, but that has not stopped some people from showing up seeking ivermectin products to try to alleviate symptoms of the virus.
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A second Culver’s location could be coming to the Lowcountry.
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The list of customers who say that a moving company disappeared with their belongings is continuing to grow. Now, a federal investigation is underway.
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An Ohio-based concrete construction company is investigating after a crane collapsed in downtown Charleston on Monday afternoon.
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Six months after the state director of the South Carolina Department of Disabilities and Special Needs was fired, a judge has ruled that her termination was illegal.
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Newly released data shows that Berkeley County is now the second fastest growing county in South Carolina.
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Customers of a Lowcountry fence company say that they paid deposits for work that was never completed.
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A Dorchester County woman who moved last month to California says she hired a moving company to take her belongings across the country, but the movers never delivered her possessions to her new home.
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In her first interview since the announcement that the two former jail deputies involved in Jamal Sutherland’s death will not face state criminal charges, Charleston County Sheriff Kristin Graziano said that they will not get their old jobs back.
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The majority of people who have been charged with murder in Charleston County since 2018 have been granted bond, raising questions over how public safety is balanced with the rights of defendants.
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A day after Solicitor Scarlett Wilson announced that the two Charleston County detention deputies involved in the death of Jamal Sutherland will not face state charges, the use of force consultant hired by Wilson said that what is depicted in the videos of Sutherland’s death is “shocking” and “disturbing.”
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The agency that runs the Coastal Regional Center in Summerville must pause its search for a new permanent state director.
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South Carolina has a long list of crimes that are considered stand-alone felonies, including murder and aggravated assault, but strangulation is not on that list.
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A Berkeley County firefighter is behind bars in Georgia, accused of raping his ex-wife more than three years ago before going on the run.
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Investigators from the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division are looking into a death that occurred at a state prison in Dorchester County on Monday.
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Williamsburg County officials say that decades worth of death records are missing, prompting some to question whether such documents were even kept.
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The man in charge of a law enforcement agency in Berkeley County is back at work after being suspended for two weeks, but newly released records indicate that he is not yet in the clear.
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The Williamsburg County Transit Authority faces a pair of lawsuits in connection with a fatal bus crash that killed three people and injured others earlier this month.
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Inside a Ridgeville building, children from more than a dozen Lowcountry counties who are beginning their stay in South Carolina’s juvenile justice system are confined for up to 45 days.
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State auditors will soon be looking into the South Carolina Department of Disabilities and Special Needs.
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Hundreds of pages worth of documents obtained by Live 5 Investigates reveal that the firing of a state agency head was not as sudden as it previously seemed.
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At least six people have died and thousands have been hurt behind closed doors throughout the Lowcountry because of domestic violence during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Newly released documents show why two Charleston County Sheriff’s Office employees were fired months after Jamal Sutherland’s death inside Charleston County’s detention center.
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Jamal Sutherland died on January 5 at the Sheriff Al Cannon Detention Center around 10:30 a.m., according to the Charleston County Coroner’s Office. His death came less than 14 hours after he was booked into the jail on a misdemeanor charge.
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North Charleston Police released video from January showing their officers transporting a man to the Al Cannon Detention Center where he later died.
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One of the two Charleston County detention deputies working in an administrative capacity since the death of a male inmate was named several years ago in a lawsuit alleging abuse of a female inmate.
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A Ladson man is being accused by deputies of taking things too far after seeing a car speeding down a suburban Dorchester County road.
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A multi-million dollar project is in the works involving the Edisto River-Goose Creek Tunnel, which starts near Givhans Ferry State Park in Dorchester County and is buried under suburban and rural parts of the Lowcountry.
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The town of Kingstree confirmed Thursday afternoon it has temporarily closed Gilland Park.
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South Carolina lawmakers are considering a bill that would require “instruction in United States foundational history” for all public middle and high school students in a way that is consistent with former President Donald Trump’s 1776 Commission Report.
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An infectious disease expert said a surge in COVID-19 cases is “likely” over the next few weeks and months after videos show crowded bars in downtown Charleston.
For the first time since firing the agency’s state director, the commission of the South Carolina Department of Disabilities and Special Needs publicly addressed their decision on Monday.
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Less than a week after the state director of the South Carolina Department of Disabilities and Special Needs was suddenly fired, another member of the department’s executive staff is leaving the agency.
A state agency that serves people with disabilities across South Carolina is once again able to hire frontline workers at its facilities.
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Some attendees traveling to the 2021 PGA Championship on Kiawah Island could use a shuttle bus system paid for at least in part by people who previously vacationed on the island.
Less than 24 hours after being fired, the former state director of the South Carolina Department of Disabilities and Special Needs says she did not do anything wrong.
Mary Poole, the state director of the South Carolina Department of Disabilities and Special Needs, was suddenly removed from her position on Thursday afternoon.
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A review of state credit card expenses revealed a string of lunch charges in DHEC’s spending records.
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A team of Lowcountry medical experts gathered virtually on Monday evening to answer your questions about COVID-19 vaccines.