Mary Green
Reporter
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Mary Green covers the South Carolina State House for WIS and our sister stations WCSC in Charleston, WHNS in Greenville, WMBF in Myrtle Beach, WTOC in Savannah, WRDW in Augusta, and WBTV in Charlotte.
Prior to moving to Columbia, Mary reported for KCRG in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and WFXL in Albany, Georgia.
She was born and raised in Tampa, Florida, and attended the University of Notre Dame (go Irish!).
Updated: Feb. 1, 2023 at 10:59 PM EST
|By Mary Green
Lawmakers are fast-tracking a push to criminalize trafficking fentanyl in South Carolina, where it is currently not a law.
Updated: Jan. 27, 2023 at 7:36 PM EST
|By Mary Green
For the first time in 35 years, South Carolina is poised to have only men on its state Supreme Court bench.
Updated: Jan. 16, 2023 at 9:24 PM EST
|By Mary Green
Hundreds of people gathered outside the South Carolina State House on Monday to commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy and reflect on how to carry it forward.
Updated: Jan. 13, 2023 at 9:40 PM EST
|By Mary Green
Public safety is one of the top priorities at the South Carolina State House this year, including bolstering school safety.
Updated: Jan. 11, 2023 at 10:41 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips and Mary Green
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster took the oath of office on the steps of the Statehouse in Columbia Wednesday morning to start his second full term as the state’s chief executive.
Updated: Dec. 14, 2022 at 8:14 PM EST
|By Mary Green
A new, $3.5-billion electric vehicle battery plant will soon call South Carolina home, with the Berkeley County project announced Wednesday marking the largest economic development deal in state history.
Updated: Dec. 8, 2022 at 8:04 PM EST
|By Mary Green
Legislation on abortion, marijuana, hate crimes and what can be taught in schools has all been filed ahead of South Carolina’s new legislative session next month.
Updated: Dec. 7, 2022 at 7:59 PM EST
|By Mary Green
For the last two years, every student in the country has eaten for free at school, thanks to a federal pandemic-relief program.
Updated: Nov. 16, 2022 at 8:36 PM EST
|By Mary Green
A group of sitting state lawmakers is now suing a South Carolina school district over allegations it is training staff to teach critical race theory, and they vow more lawsuits will follow for other schools and districts.
Updated: Nov. 10, 2022 at 7:57 PM EST
|By Mary Green
A push to further restrict or even ban abortion in South Carolina is now over for this year, but advocates fighting for and against that effort say their work is not over.
Updated: Nov. 8, 2022 at 11:28 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips and Mary Green
With more than half of precincts reporting, the Republican candidate is maintaining a lead over her Democratic challenger to lead South Carolina schools for the next four years.
Updated: Oct. 20, 2022 at 7:55 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
Stop, drop and roll is what most Americans know to do to escape a fire, but emergency management officials urge South Carolinians to also know what to do in an earthquake: drop, cover and hold on.
Updated: Oct. 19, 2022 at 8:23 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
The fate of South Carolina’s current abortion law, and if it can be legally enforced, now lies with the state’s five Supreme Court justices.
Updated: Oct. 12, 2022 at 7:53 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
Figuring out how to make South Carolina better for its children is a top concern for so many parents, educators and leaders across the state.
Updated: Oct. 7, 2022 at 8:54 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
Poll workers play an essential role in elections, keeping voters from waiting in line for too long and ensuring every vote is properly counted.
Updated: Oct. 6, 2022 at 9:09 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
South Carolina is becoming one of the most popular states for Americans to move to, but leaders at the state’s eight military installations say this is creating problems for service members and their families looking for a place to live.
Updated: Oct. 5, 2022 at 8:41 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
Thousands of South Carolina students, teachers, and staff were sent into lockdown Wednesday as law enforcement responded to reports of school shootings in more than a dozen counties across the state.
Updated: Sep. 29, 2022 at 8:03 PM EDT
|By Dylan Leatherwood, Patrick Phillips and Mary Green
As Tropical Storm Ian inches closer and closer to the coast of South Carolina, state leaders are holding a new briefing on the state’s efforts to prepare.
Updated: Sep. 23, 2022 at 8:03 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
A 2022 candidate for governor is paying for a billboard that South Carolinians may spot on their commutes. But where they will not spot this candidate is on their ballots this November.
Updated: Sep. 22, 2022 at 7:49 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
It takes someone with a big heart to step in and care for a child if their parents cannot.
Updated: Sep. 16, 2022 at 12:24 AM EDT
|By Mary Green
If you have an idea on how to make South Carolina better for its children or concerns about issues affecting them, your opinion is wanted.
Updated: Sep. 14, 2022 at 8:06 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
The number of crisis calls in South Carolina coming in following the launch of the nationwide 988 suicide lifeline in July has gone up significantly.
Updated: Sep. 9, 2022 at 11:12 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
A push to totally ban abortion in South Carolina, or come close to it, is likely over for now.
Updated: Sep. 9, 2022 at 4:10 AM EDT
|By Mary Green
Less than three months after the US Supreme Court’s overturn of Roe v. Wade opened the door for states to settle the issue of abortion for themselves, a Republican-led push to nearly ban the procedure in South Carolina is over for now.
Updated: Aug. 31, 2022 at 9:23 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
A near-ban on abortion in South Carolina is now closer to becoming law.
Updated: Aug. 26, 2022 at 10:42 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
A coalition of South Carolina teachers, doctors, and mental health professionals is calling for the state to be more proactive in ensuring schools are safe, saying South Carolina cannot wait until after a tragedy to bolster school safety.
Updated: Aug. 25, 2022 at 9:04 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips and Mary Green
Gov. Henry McMaster held a ceremonial signing Thursday for a bill that provides state employees with paid family leave for the birth, adoption or fostering of a child.
Updated: Aug. 24, 2022 at 10:50 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
So many people know the feeling of sliding on your first pair of glasses and finally being able to see a lot more clearly.
Updated: Aug. 19, 2022 at 11:09 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
Like so many others, South Carolina is where Neil Derrick of Columbia began his service as a Marine.
Updated: Aug. 18, 2022 at 8:30 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
The South Carolina Supreme Court’s order Wednesday that blocks the enforcement of the state’s six-week ban on abortion, for now, has set off a ripple effect of actions and questions about what comes next.
Updated: Aug. 10, 2022 at 10:07 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
Millions of American veterans will now have access to healthcare benefits for illnesses they developed following their service.
Updated: Aug. 4, 2022 at 10:10 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
The future of South Carolina’s death penalty is now in a judge’s hands.
Updated: Aug. 2, 2022 at 6:04 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
Questions about access to abortions in are currently being considered and debated in both the courthouse and the State House in South Carolina.
Updated: Aug. 2, 2022 at 4:45 AM EDT
|By Mary Green
Education, school, lunch, Lunch Law
Updated: Jul. 29, 2022 at 11:08 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
Help is available right now for South Carolinians struggling to pay their rent and utility bills.
Updated: Jul. 28, 2022 at 9:50 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
The U.S. Supreme Court’s overturn of the landmark Roe v. Wade decision last month has opened the door for states, including South Carolina, to weigh imposing tighter restrictions and even total bans on abortions.
Updated: Jul. 27, 2022 at 8:58 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
South Carolina Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette is officially back on the Republican ticket for re-election in 2022.
Updated: Jul. 27, 2022 at 8:55 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control is urging families to get their children vaccinated against COVID-19 before they return to the classroom.
Updated: Jul. 22, 2022 at 8:06 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
For so many students, their bus driver is the first person to greet them on the way to school and the last person to wave them goodbye before they get home.
Updated: Jul. 19, 2022 at 7:54 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
The committee formed to guide South Carolina’s response to the overturning of Roe v. Wade has now put out its recommendations for a change in law, which include a near-ban on abortions in the state.
Updated: Jul. 19, 2022 at 4:18 PM EDT
|By Mary Green and Debra Worley
A law written into the current state budget directs the South Carolina Department of Education to develop the regulations for a required high school course in personal finance by the end of September, to be approved by the State Board of Education.
Updated: Jul. 16, 2022 at 5:08 AM EDT
|By Mary Green
Starting Saturday, people in crisis all across the country can get help by dialing just three numbers: 988.
Updated: Jul. 13, 2022 at 9:14 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
Hundreds of miles lie between South Carolina’s Upstate mountains and its Lowcountry coast. But this month, a group is making its way from one side of the state to the other on kayak, raft, and their own two feet and they want South Carolinians to come join them.
Updated: Jul. 8, 2022 at 9:09 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
North Carolina’s governor is taking steps to protect doctors who provide abortions and patients seeking them, and his action is aimed at nearby states like South Carolina, which will almost certainly soon restrict or completely cut off abortion access.
Updated: Jul. 7, 2022 at 8:14 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
Just a few weeks after the overturn of Roe v. Wade, South Carolina lawmakers are already starting the process to likely tighten up the state’s abortion law even more.
Updated: Jul. 1, 2022 at 9:20 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
A new state budget kicked in on Friday, the start of South Carolina’s new fiscal year, and with it comes a major overhaul in how public schools are paid for.
Updated: Jun. 30, 2022 at 8:52 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
Groups that work to prevent domestic violence are welcoming a component of the new federal bipartisan gun law that they hope will protect more victims and survivors across the country.
Updated: Jun. 25, 2022 at 7:47 AM EDT
|By Mary Green
The US Supreme Court’s ruling Friday to strip the constitutionally guaranteed right to access abortions nationwide opens the door for state legislatures to impose tighter restrictions and even total bans on the procedure, with South Carolina’s among them.
Updated: Jun. 23, 2022 at 7:50 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
Republican Gov. Henry McMaster called South Carolina’s upcoming state budget “the most transparent and accountable budget in modern times” while renewing his call for more openness into how public dollars are spent.
Updated: Jun. 22, 2022 at 9:37 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
A new report released Wednesday details how South Carolina wants to spend hundreds of millions of dollars the state is receiving from a major, nationwide opioid settlement.
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