Most people know South Carolina Republican Rep. Ralph Norman as the sort of even-keeled lawmaker who nominates Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize, or pulls a loaded gun out during a meeting with constituents. But it turns out Norman is also a hilarious jokester who is able to take the worst news of the day and…
Hurricane Florence took the lives of two women, Wendy Newton and Nicolette Green, who were being transported by law enforcement to a psychiatric facility in South Carolina during the storm, according to the New York Times. The women were riding in the back of a sheriff’s van driven by two deputies when water overtook…
Update, Sunday, 4:20 p.m.: Florence may have been downgraded to a tropical depression overnight, but its winds, driving rain, and widespread flooding have continued to devastate the Carolinas.
By early Friday morning, Hurricane Florence was already beginning to leave destruction in its wake. As of 2:30 a.m., there was intense flooding in New Bern, N.C., as 150 people awaited rescue, and over 180,000 people in the region were without power, according to the Washington Post. A local TV station was also forced…
Welp, it actually happened: In Virginia, two-time former statewide candidate and friend to white supremacists everywhere Corey Stewart won the GOP’s Senate nomination in a primary on Tuesday.
According to divorce records obtained by The (Charleston, S.C.) Post and Courier, South Carolina Democratic congressional candidate Archie Parnell abused his ex-wife.
In a stunt that South Carolina GOP Chairman Drew McKissick characterized as “hysterical,” Republican U.S. Rep. Ralph Norman drew a loaded .38-caliber Smith & Wesson handgun and left it on the table during a “coffee with constituents” event on Friday.
South Carolina may not have a single sanctuary city within its borders, but that’s not stopping Republican Governor Henry McMaster from backing a harsh anti-immigrant measure to force local communities into cooperating with state and federal immigration officials, whether they want to or not.
South Carolina Republican gubernatorial candidate Catherine Templeton is defending recent comments in which she embraced her state’s racist history, going so far at one point to claim she was “proud of the Confederacy.”
On Tuesday, 22-year-old white supremacist Dylann Roof was sentenced to be executed for killing nine black churchgoers a year and a half ago in Charleston, South Carolina. Since its inception, the United States’ criminal justice system has been grossly contaminated by racism, a disease that has killed its black…
Dylann Roof, the unrepentant white supremacist who massacred killing nine black parishioners at Charleston South Carolina's Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, was sentenced to death by a jury on Tuesday. The decision was unanimous.
Dylann Roof, the 22-year-old white supremacist who was recently convicted of murdering nine black worshipers at Charleston, SC's Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, addressed a packed courtroom on Wednesday, promising the jurors that "I’m not going to lie to you" during his brief remarks in the sentencing…
Dylann Roof was found guilty on all federal charges Thursday afternoon for the 2015 murders of nine black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina. After a week of heart-wrenching testimony, it took the jury just two hours to reach its decision.
After the jury said it was hopelessly deadlocked in the trial of Michael Slager, the white South Carolina police officer who fatally shot Walter Scott, an unarmed black man, last year, the judge on Monday officially declared a mistrial in the case.
The jury weighing whether former South Carolina police officer Michael Slager should be convicted of the murder of Walter Scott, the unarmed black man he shot eight times in the back in 2015, announced Friday it has been unable to reach a verdict.
Dylann Roof will be allowed to act as his own attorney against the charge that he massacred nine parishioners during a Bible study at a historically black Charleston, South Carolina church last June, a judge ruled on Monday.
Donald Trump has reportedly chosen South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley to be the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. The president-elect has long admired the Republican governor, as seen in this tweet he made about her last March.
Thursday marked the opening day of the the closely watched trial of Michael Slager, a white, former South Carolina police officer accused of shooting 50-year-old Walter Scott—an unarmed black man—in the back, in 2015. 12 people—seven women and five men—were selected as jurors. 11 of them are white, and one is black.
Scott Michael Greene, the Iowa man accused of shooting and killing two police officers as they sat in their patrol cars early Wednesday morning, showed a fondness for the Confederate flag, a disdain for police, and a string of clashes with law enforcement.
Attorneys for former North Charleston, South Carolina police officer Michael Slager are attempting to get their client entirely off the hook for his fatal shooting of Walter Scott, an unarmed black man whom Slager shot eight times in the back as he ran away.
