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Updated: Jan. 7, 2022 at 7:45 PM EST
|By Adam Mintzer
Sen. Davis, R-Beaufort, says his bill is “very conservative” while also allowing doctors to give patients suffering from debilitating health conditions like Chron’s, PTSD, and chronic pain.
Updated: Jan. 5, 2022 at 10:47 PM EST
|By Adam Mintzer
South Carolina’s top educator has one more year left in office, but the 12 months between now and Superintendent Molly Spearman’s retirement are not projected to be easy.
Updated: Dec. 28, 2021 at 6:52 PM EST
|By Adam Mintzer
Doctors on the front lines of the fight against COVID-19 at the Medical University of South Carolina are exhausted.
Updated: Dec. 24, 2021 at 7:34 PM EST
|By Adam Mintzer
This Christmas, COVID-19 is the gift that no child is asking to get.
Updated: Dec. 13, 2021 at 5:17 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Michal Higdon and Adam Mintzer
A judge set bond Monday morning for Lowcountry attorney Alex Murdaugh along with several conditions in connection to 21 new charges filed against him last week.
Updated: Nov. 24, 2021 at 4:28 PM EST
|By Adam Mintzer
More than three times this semester, a UofSC senior says she has called her mom in distress after hearing of classmates who have taken their own lives.
Updated: Nov. 9, 2021 at 12:44 PM EST
|By Adam Mintzer and Hannah Robinson
A Lexington County elementary school teacher is accused of having weed edibles in her student prize box, according to Lexington County Sheriff Jay Koon.
Updated: Nov. 4, 2021 at 3:50 PM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer
According to court records, both men are charged with presenting a false claim for an insurance payment.
Updated: Nov. 3, 2021 at 4:46 PM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer and Nick Neville
The video appears to show one student on the ground with his hands cuffed behind his back.
Updated: Nov. 2, 2021 at 11:21 AM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer and The Associated Press
Former lowcountry attorney Alex Murdaugh’s cash and assets have been frozen after a South Carolina judge heard arguments from attorneys in three different civil cases.
Updated: Nov. 1, 2021 at 11:02 AM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer
On Saturday, a fundraiser was held for the mother of Stephen Smith, 19, whose 2015 hit-and-run death is now being looked into again.
Updated: Oct. 25, 2021 at 11:55 PM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer
The attorneys for the estate of Alex Murdaugh’s former family housekeeper, Gloria Satterfield, say they’ve reached a settlement with Murdaugh’s former law firm Peters, Murdaugh, Parker, Eltzroth, and Detrick (PMPED).
Updated: Oct. 15, 2021 at 11:54 AM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer and Gray News staff
Victoria Farish Weiss, 27, is charged with possession of a Schedule 1 drug, according to warrants. She is no longer employed with the school district.
Updated: Oct. 13, 2021 at 8:28 PM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer
Price believes the tension at these meetings is so high right now because national debates, in particular about COVID-19 mitigation, have become localized.
Updated: Oct. 8, 2021 at 7:10 PM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer
A South Carolina prison correctional officer can spend up to half of their 12-hour shift locking and unlocking cell doors, according to the agency director.
Updated: Oct. 7, 2021 at 6:39 PM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer
The Lexington County Republican Party wants the 2020 election results to be looked at again despite their party’s big wins in the county and state.
Updated: Oct. 6, 2021 at 7:43 PM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer
A TikTok video showing a South Carolina man saying he fired more than 40 employees for being vaccinated has been viewed more than 80,000 times.
Updated: Oct. 5, 2021 at 9:37 PM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer
With scheduled public hearings over for the state senators and representatives, elected officials are getting ready to start to redraw the state’s district maps.
Updated: Oct. 1, 2021 at 10:41 PM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer
In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, health officials told South Carolinians to isolate, slow the spread, and flatten the curve.
Updated: Sep. 30, 2021 at 5:48 PM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer
South Carolina’s infrastructure received a C- from the American Society of Engineers, but not every Member of Congress from the state says a more than a trillion-dollar infrastructure bill is the best way to fix it.
Updated: Sep. 29, 2021 at 6:13 PM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer
Curtis Edward Smith is accused of dealing opioids to a prominent South Carolina attorney who spent millions on drugs.
Updated: Sep. 21, 2021 at 6:56 PM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer
After the death of the long-time housekeeper for the Murdaugh family, Gloria Satterfield, the lawyers for her two children say the surviving family members never got the millions they are entitled to.
Updated: Sep. 21, 2021 at 12:34 PM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer
One of the people aboard the boat that crashed and killed Mallory Beach in 2019 is now suing Alex and Buster Murdaugh.
Updated: Sep. 15, 2021 at 4:07 PM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer
Sattefield died from injuries she sustained after “a trip and fall accident,” according to the settlement.
WH Press Secretary: SC politicians should ‘get out of the way’ of health experts on COVID mitigation
Updated: Sep. 13, 2021 at 9:41 PM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer
When asked what the next steps the Biden Administration is prepared to take in response to this limit on mask requirements, Psaki said they are prepared to support schools who may need it.
Updated: Sep. 9, 2021 at 11:15 PM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer
The relevant dates in the case go beyond what has happened in the past few months.
Updated: Sep. 9, 2021 at 6:00 PM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer and Patrick Phillips
The injuries a prominent Lowcountry attorney received in a weekend shooting were not self-inflicted, his own attorney says.
Updated: Sep. 8, 2021 at 8:51 PM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer
Health experts say the increase in coronavirus cases among children is correlating to an increase in hospitalizations.
Updated: Sep. 8, 2021 at 5:13 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips and Adam Mintzer
The South Carolina Supreme Court suspended the law license of a Lowcountry attorney who was wounded in a reported shooting two months after his wife and son were killed in Colleton County.
Updated: Sep. 6, 2021 at 6:27 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips and Adam Mintzer
Alex Murdaugh released a statement Monday afternoon after he was shot along a rural road in Hampton County Saturday afternoon.
Updated: Sep. 3, 2021 at 5:34 PM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer
With the start of college football season in South Carolina happening at the same time as a third-day holiday weekend in the midst of a surge in COVID-19 cases, health experts are concerned things can get worse.
Updated: Sep. 1, 2021 at 4:52 PM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer
The U.S. Supreme Court has so far been silent on Texas’ ban on abortions after six weeks, allowing the law to take effect Wednesday.
Updated: Sep. 1, 2021 at 10:06 AM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer
The school year just started, but grades are already starting to come in for South Carolina schools.
Updated: Aug. 30, 2021 at 8:08 PM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer
More than half of all the COVID-19 cases reported in a statewide, voluntary survey on the spread of the coronavirus in South Carolina were asymptomatic.
Updated: Aug. 28, 2021 at 10:58 AM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer
Mark Sanford was South Carolina’s governor, a congressman, a presidential candidate, and the center of a political scandal.
Updated: Aug. 27, 2021 at 6:53 PM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer and Live 5 Web Staff
Officials with the Medical University of South Carolina said they currently have 12 children hospitalized with COVID in their facilities, with three of those children in the ICU and on ventilators.
Updated: Aug. 25, 2021 at 5:30 PM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer
The state’s unemployment rate dropped from 4.5% in June to 4.3% in July. According to the Department of Employment and Workforce, 10,217 more people were working in July than in June of 2021
Updated: Aug. 24, 2021 at 8:28 PM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer
Federal lawsuits, statements from teacher advocacy groups, and petitions from doctors and pediatricians have not swayed Gov. Henry McMaster from his position on masking in schools.
Updated: Aug. 23, 2021 at 8:02 PM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer
DHEC Director Dr. Edward Simmer says full FDA approval of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine is further proof the shot is safe and effective.
Updated: Aug. 20, 2021 at 8:37 PM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer
In a letter to Gov. Henry McMaster, the U.S. Secretary of Education said schools are allowed to use federal funds from the COVID relief bills to mandate masks.
Updated: Aug. 20, 2021 at 6:27 PM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer
As cases rise in the community, nurses with the South Carolina Department of Corrections are feeling stretched thin.
Updated: Aug. 19, 2021 at 8:04 PM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer
With college students back on campus and hanging out with their friends, experts want everyone to keep up their guard against unknowingly being drugged – especially when in entertainment districts.
Updated: Aug. 17, 2021 at 4:28 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips and Adam Mintzer
The South Carolina Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the University of South Carolina can require its students to wear masks on campus.
Updated: Aug. 16, 2021 at 8:27 PM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer
Educators, lawmakers, doctors, and parents are writing letters, signing petitions, and showing up to meetings to express their concern with the lack of mask mandates at South Carolina public schools.
Updated: Aug. 11, 2021 at 7:53 PM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer
A temporary law about face masks in the South Carolina state budget could soon face a legal challenge.
Updated: Aug. 10, 2021 at 8:52 PM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer
If the rise in COVID-19 cases in South Carolina is making a family reconsider sending their child back to in-person learning, they may find it harder than last year to make the switch.
Updated: Aug. 10, 2021 at 6:30 PM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer
A legal challenge to Columbia's mask mandate in day cares and schools is brewing.
Updated: Aug. 9, 2021 at 7:35 PM EDT
|By Riley Bean, Patrick Phillips and Adam Mintzer
Gov. Henry McMaster urged South Carolinians to get vaccinated against COVID-19 but insisted school districts should not require masks in the classroom.
Updated: Aug. 5, 2021 at 8:18 PM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer
Sen. Tim Scott says his group of lawmakers are still working on solidifying the language for the federal bipartisan police reform bill. He says the bill will be ready in a matter of weeks rather than days.
Updated: Aug. 4, 2021 at 10:47 PM EDT
|By Connor Lomis and Adam Mintzer
This comes in response to the recent rapid spread of the COVID-19 delta variant.
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