The Holly Hill and Eutawville fire departments merged to form East Lake Fire Rescue, covering 150 square miles with faster response times.

Mikal Mahdi, who was convicted of two 2004 murders, including the death of an off-duty cop, chose an upscale final meal ahead ...

New data from NOAA finds that South Carolina had its driest first three months of the year in nearly 40 years.

South Carolina gives its death row inmates a choice between lethal injection, the electric chair and the firing squad. Mahdi ...

The state's execution protocols called for a hood to be pulled over Mahdi's head before three volunteer corrections staff ...

The death row inmate is being held at a prison in Columbia, South Carolina, for the murder of a police captain ...

South Carolina prison officials put a man to death by firing squad for the second time in just over a month when they ...

Mikal Mahdi, 42, is to be executed at 6pm (10pm UK time) at a prison in state capital Columbia for the murder of 56-year-old ...

A South Carolina man on death row prepares to be put to death by firing squad, as his lawyer says the case is a matter of ...

Under the state's execution protocols, the firing squad will put a hood over Mahdi's head and shoot him in the heart ...

The Table Rock wildfire burning in South Carolina continued to grow Thursday, but conditions that created dramatic expansion the day before eased, officials said. The fire, which was started March ...

South Carolina is legally required to keep some protocols secret as it prepares to put a man to death by firing squad for the ...