Court overturns Alex Murdaugh's murder convictions, orders new trial
Alex Murdaugh was convicted of his killing his wife and his son at the family's home in 2021.
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Alex Murdaugh was convicted of his killing his wife and his son at the family's home in 2021.
A South Carolina man is accused of threatening a city attorney in Minnesota over charges filed against a woman who admitted to hurling racist slurs at a child with autism at a park.
Charging documents reveal the man left Rochester prosecutors several threatening voicemails stating he would travel to Minnesota to kill every last one of them.
A South Carolina sheriff said 16 other people were wounded in the deadly shooting at Willie's Bar and Grill on St. Helena Island.
The family of 12-year-old Jaysen Carr is speaking out about the child's recent death from a brain-eating amoeba in an effort to raise public awareness of the often fatal brain infection caused by Naegleria fowleri.
UCLA is the top overall seed in the women's NCAA March Madness tournament.
Forty-three rhesus macaque monkeys escaped from the research facility in Yemassee, South Carolina. They have all been recovered and are healthy, officials said. Here is what we know.
Traps have been set up and thermal imaging cameras are being used in an effort to locate the fugitive monkeys, police said.
It's been six days since Hurricane Helene made landfall along the Gulf Coast and many communities in the south are struggling to recover.
Communities in the Southeast U.S. continue to deal with the devastation from Helene. At least 76 People are dead across multiple states and millions are left without power. The Carolinas are seeing "unprecedented" levels of damage, with authorities rushing to airlift supplies and restore communications. CBS's Cristian Benavides reports.
Sunday's championship, which sealed South Carolina's undefeated season and Caitlin Clark's last college game, was the most-watched women's college basketball game ever.
The South Carolina Gamecocks won Sunday's NCAA women's championship game against the Iowa Hawkeyes.
Caitlin Clark is leading Iowa back to the Final Four for the second consecutive year, scoring 41 points to defeat defending champion LSU 94-87 Monday night.
Researchers and citizen scientists will observe how animals' routines at several zoos are disrupted during the April 8 total solar eclipse.
The RNC reportedly reversed course after Trump said he wanted to win the nod "the old-fashioned way" — at the ballot box.
Former President Donald Trump secured another decisive primary win in South Carolina last night, defeating former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley in her home state.
Vice President Kamala Harris targeted Donald Trump for paving the way for abortion bans during a visit to the key battleground state of Wisconsin.
Iowa assumed its position as the state that votes first for a presidential nominee more than 50 years ago. But its 1972 caucuses didn't feel very historic.
Trans Day of Remembrance is an annual observance that originally honored trans people lost to acts of violence — but has now become so much more.
Donald Trump is calling for a show of strength in Iowa, arguing before big audiences that dominating in the Republican presidential caucuses in January would signal to voters around the country his strength in the November election next year.
Iowa's Democratic Party says it will hold a caucus on Jan. 15 but won't release the results until early March.
Convicted murderer and disbarred South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh pleaded guilty to 22 charges alleging he stole millions of dollars from his clients.
When Donald Trump's private jet made a loop above the Iowa State Fair before his visit last weekend, it was more than just a gesture to the hundreds of supporters on the ground — or to a few rival candidates.
"What slavery was really about was separating families, about mutilating humans and even raping their wives. It was just devastating," Scott, the sole Black Republican in the Senate, told reporters on Thursday after a town hall in Ankeny.
As the Republican presidential primary intensifies this summer, most White House hopefuls are devoting their time to events in Iowa and New Hampshire, the states that will kick off the nomination process early next year.
