Updated: Dec. 29, 2021 at 8:41 PM EST
|By Jared Kofsky and Katie Kamin
Walterboro Police did not circulate a press release or post about the matter on social media on the evening of the incident or in the days that followed.
Updated: Dec. 13, 2021 at 8:01 PM EST
|By Jared Kofsky and Cameron Bopp
The Lowcountry’s cities and suburbs have seen a sharp growth in population and development in recent years, with Census Bureau estimates showing a 23 percent increase in residents across the tri-county area over the last 10 years.
Updated: Nov. 30, 2021 at 2:24 PM EST
|By Jared Kofsky and Blair Sabol
A company handed out its own parking citations at a downtown Charleston lot, instructing drivers that they needed to pay up for committing an offense.
Updated: Nov. 19, 2021 at 9:57 PM EST
|By Steven Ardary, Jared Kofsky and Blair Sabol
The state attorney general’s office announced indictments against former Lowcountry attorney Alex Murdaugh Friday.
Updated: Nov. 18, 2021 at 8:34 PM EST
|By Jared Kofsky and Katie Kamin
When Felix Butler sought to become a firefighter in St. Stephen in 2020, he put in his application that his salary was negotiable and that he could start working “ASAP.”
Updated: Nov. 15, 2021 at 8:27 PM EST
|By Blair Sabol and Jared Kofsky
A James Island man says he feels “betrayed” after an attempt to reinstall an AT&T fiber optic line led to his home’s sewage system being in shambles.
Updated: Nov. 4, 2021 at 5:40 PM EDT
|By Jared Kofsky
A sergeant with the Summerville Police Department pulled money out from his pants after being confronted about missing evidence funds, a newly released incident report says.
Updated: Nov. 3, 2021 at 5:18 PM EDT
|By Jared Kofsky
Robert Barrineau is currently facing a charge of third-degree assault and battery in Dorchester County in connection with an Aug. 20, 2020 traffic stop.
Updated: Oct. 27, 2021 at 8:22 PM EDT
|By Jared Kofsky and Katie Kamin
An operations center that was once called a “national model for port security” by Sen. Lindsey Graham has been linked to the monitoring of Lowcountry activists’ social media posts, raising questions over the facility’s evolution and oversight.
Updated: Oct. 26, 2021 at 6:28 PM EDT
|By Jared Kofsky and Katie Kamin
The previously unidentified man accused of threatening two members of the Live 5 Investigates team while they were working on a story in Berkeley County is a volunteer firefighter, police say.
Updated: Oct. 22, 2021 at 6:23 PM EDT
|By Jared Kofsky
Alex Murdaugh’s call to 911 after he was reportedly shot in Hampton County in September has been released.
Updated: Oct. 21, 2021 at 10:45 AM EDT
|By Katie Kamin and Jared Kofsky
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.
Updated: Oct. 15, 2021 at 9:43 PM EDT
|By Jared Kofsky and Emilie Zuhowski
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.
Updated: Oct. 15, 2021 at 7:20 PM EDT
|By Jared Kofsky and Michal Higdon
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.
Updated: Oct. 11, 2021 at 7:28 PM EDT
|By Jared Kofsky and Rob Way
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.
Updated: Oct. 7, 2021 at 6:14 PM EDT
|By Summer Huechtker and Jared Kofsky
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.
Updated: Oct. 6, 2021 at 6:32 PM EDT
|By Jared Kofsky and Katie Kamin
A Berkeley County fire department is violating South Carolina records law by refusing to turn over documents.
Updated: Oct. 1, 2021 at 9:30 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips, Rob Way and Jared Kofsky
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.
Updated: Sep. 23, 2021 at 10:15 PM EDT
|By Jared Kofsky and Katie Kamin
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.
Updated: Sep. 23, 2021 at 6:32 PM EDT
|By Jared Kofsky and Rob Way
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.
Updated: Sep. 22, 2021 at 8:08 PM EDT
|By Jared Kofsky and Raphael James
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.
Updated: Sep. 7, 2021 at 7:40 PM EDT
|By Rob Way and Jared Kofsky
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.
Updated: Sep. 2, 2021 at 1:08 PM EDT
|By Jared Kofsky
A second Culver’s location could be coming to the Lowcountry.
Updated: Aug. 24, 2021 at 7:00 PM EDT
|By Jared Kofsky and Summer Huechtker
The list of customers who say that a moving company disappeared with their belongings is continuing to grow. Now, a federal investigation is underway.
Updated: Aug. 24, 2021 at 4:04 PM EDT
|By Jared Kofsky
An Ohio-based concrete construction company is investigating after a crane collapsed in downtown Charleston on Monday afternoon.
Updated: Aug. 18, 2021 at 4:30 PM EDT
|By Jared Kofsky
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.
Updated: Aug. 12, 2021 at 5:34 PM EDT
|By Jared Kofsky
Newly released data shows that Berkeley County is now the second fastest growing county in South Carolina.
Updated: Aug. 10, 2021 at 5:30 PM EDT
|By Jared Kofsky and Lisa Weismann
Customers of a Lowcountry fence company say that they paid deposits for work that was never completed.
Updated: Aug. 5, 2021 at 6:37 PM EDT
|By Jared Kofsky and Summer Huechtker
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.
Updated: Jul. 29, 2021 at 6:18 PM EDT
|By Jared Kofsky and Rob Way
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.
Updated: Jul. 27, 2021 at 8:10 PM EDT
|By Jared Kofsky and Carter Coyle
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.
Updated: Jul. 27, 2021 at 7:05 PM EDT
|By Jared Kofsky and Raphael James
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.”
Updated: Jul. 27, 2021 at 12:47 PM EDT
|By Jared Kofsky
The agency that runs the Coastal Regional Center in Summerville must pause its search for a new permanent state director.
Updated: Jul. 22, 2021 at 7:47 PM EDT
|By Rob Way and Jared Kofsky
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.
Updated: Jul. 22, 2021 at 6:42 PM EDT
|By Jared Kofsky and Carter Coyle
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.
Updated: Jul. 22, 2021 at 11:04 AM EDT
|By Jared Kofsky
Investigators from the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division are looking into a death that occurred at a state prison in Dorchester County on Monday.
Updated: Jul. 12, 2021 at 8:04 PM EDT
|By Rob Way and Jared Kofsky
Williamsburg County officials say that decades worth of death records are missing, prompting some to question whether such documents were even kept.
Updated: Jul. 7, 2021 at 5:54 PM EDT
|By Jared Kofsky and Nick Reagan
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.
Updated: Jul. 2, 2021 at 12:43 PM EDT
|By Live 5 Web Staff and Jared Kofsky
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.
Updated: Jul. 1, 2021 at 7:57 PM EDT
|By Carter Coyle and Jared Kofsky
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.
Updated: Jun. 17, 2021 at 6:51 PM EDT
|By Jared Kofsky and Carter Coyle
State auditors will soon be looking into the South Carolina Department of Disabilities and Special Needs.
Updated: May. 27, 2021 at 4:21 PM EDT
|By Jared Kofsky and Carter Coyle
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.
Updated: May. 26, 2021 at 7:56 PM EDT
|By Rob Way and Jared Kofsky
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.
Updated: May. 21, 2021 at 7:49 PM EDT
|By Carter Coyle, Jared Kofsky and Rob Way
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.
Updated: May. 20, 2021 at 6:49 PM EDT
|By Jared Kofsky and Carter Coyle
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.
Updated: May. 12, 2021 at 6:58 PM EDT
|By Jared Kofsky, Patrick Phillips and Carter Coyle
North Charleston Police released video from January showing their officers transporting a man to the Al Cannon Detention Center where he later died.
Updated: May. 12, 2021 at 4:51 PM EDT
|By Jared Kofsky
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.
Updated: Apr. 13, 2021 at 11:31 PM EDT
|By Jared Kofsky, Raphael James and Ray Rivera
A Ladson man is being accused by deputies of taking things too far after seeing a car speeding down a suburban Dorchester County road.
Updated: Apr. 13, 2021 at 6:00 PM EDT
|By Jared Kofsky and Carter Coyle
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.
Updated: Apr. 1, 2021 at 2:13 PM EDT
|By Jared Kofsky
The town of Kingstree confirmed Thursday afternoon it has temporarily closed Gilland Park.
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