A new lawsuit was filed Monday in the case of a former Charleston County School District employee who was allowed to continue working in a North Charleston elementary school despite child pornography being detected on his school laptop.
Charleston County’s sheriff posted to a blogging platform about changes she has made in her first six months in office at the Al Cannon Detention Center despite refusing multiple requests for an on-camera interview to discuss them.
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.
Several Tri-County law enforcement agencies recorded their highest number of chases in 2020 despite fewer drivers being on the road because of the pandemic, according to traffic and chase data for the last five years.
Some COVID-19 survivors recover very quickly or don’t even know they have the virus. Others feel life-changing symptoms for weeks and even months on end.
Nearly a year after five siblings were reported missing from the North Charleston area, the state’s Department of Social Services has not provided any new details on the case.
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.
The family of a man who died in at the Charleston County jail wants private entities they believe contributed to his death to be held accountable, including the medical company contracted to work inside the jail.
It’s been a little more than a month since video was released of an inmate, with a mental illness, being tased multiple times inside the Charleston County jail and ultimately died.
The CDC is warning about a virus increasingly spreading in the South that has symptoms similar to COVID-19.It’s called respiratory syncytial virus, and it’s nothing new to healthcare providers.
Healthcare workers have faced new challenges over the past year and a half as they deal with the coronavirus outbreak in the United States. However, before COVID-19, healthcare workers were facing what some have called an epidemic inside healthcare facilities, and it continues today.
The video of a man with mental illness dying after deputies used a Taser inside the Charleston County jail shocked the Lowcountry; but some wonder why he was even there to begin with.
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.
Charleston County Council’s unanimous vote Wednesday night on a $10 million settlement in the death of Jamal Sutherland means the county will have to dip into its coffers to pay the majority of the cost.
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.
The man in charge of Charleston County’s detention center was fired within hours of an inmate’s death inside the facility, but a spokesperson for the agency that runs the jail says that the two incidents are not related.
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.
At least one Charleston County Council member says she saw the in-jail video of Jamal Sutherland before it was publicly released as part of the mediation process between the county and Sutherland’s family.
The Charleston County Sheriff’s Office released hours of video footage involving the death of Jamal Sutherland who died at the Al Cannon Detention Center on the morning of Jan. 5, 2021.
As we get closer to wrapping up the 2020-2021 school year, there are still some schools in South Carolina that have not resumed in-person learning full time, five days a week.
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.
Have you heard of COVID Arm?The condition doesn’t have anything to do with contacting the COVID virus; it refers to a red, itchy, swollen and sometimes painful rash that can develop on your arm where you get a COVID 19 vaccine.
In many ways the devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic can be represented by graphics and numbers.The CDC currently reports 30.3 million novel coronavirus cases, 550,169 deaths and 158 million vaccines given.
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.
A former South Carolina energy company CEO has paid $5 million after pleading guilty to both federal and state charges tied to a failed nuclear project that misled investors, and now the state is planning on giving that money to electricity customers in need.
The last year many have learned how to increase personal hygiene through proper hand washing, wearing masks and using hand sanitizer. Just like that physical protection, security experts say we must be diligent about “cyber hygiene.”
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.
The deadline for filing your 2020 taxes is about six weeks away. The IRS pushed back its tax season start date two weeks and officially started processing claims on Feb. 12.
DHEC recommends that even if you have COVID antibodies, you should still socially distance and mask up. Scientists don’t know how protective those antibodies are yet.
A South Carolina power grid expert has given the state a ‘C’ in preparedness for winter weather just a week after historic cold temperatures and snow knocked out power to millions in Texas.
According to a recent Wells Fargo study, 25% of respondents age 60 years old and older acknowledged feeling lonely, while 43% reported that they may not speak to anyone for days at a time.
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.
A South Carolina private ambulance company is warning the pandemic’s impact on their industry may make it “impossible” to evacuate nursing homes and hospitals as quickly as they usually do ahead of hurricanes.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its mask protocols this week after research showed that two face masks can be much better than one at preventing the spread of COVID-19.
Thousands of vaccine-eligible South Carolina residents don’t have a license and others can’t get themselves to vaccine appointments, so now some are asking the state for help.
