Minnesota state Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were killed in a shooting at their home on Saturday ...

Reporter Kevin Sack's new book is a history of Charleston's Emanuel AME Church, the oldest Black congregation in the South, ...

A South Carolina man sent to death row twice for separate murders was put to death Friday by lethal injection in the state’s ...

South Carolina kills inmate serving two separate death sentences in state's sixth execution in nine months.

A South Carolina man was put to death by lethal injection Friday evening in the state’s sixth execution in nine months.Stephen Stanko, 57, was sentenced for two separate murders in 2005 in Horry and ...

A South Carolina man sent to death row twice for separate murders is scheduled to die by lethal injection in the state’s ...

Monday's extraordinary hearing was the culmination of over two years of investigation by the Senate that began ... removed in this way since South Carolina became a state 235 years ago.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Former South Carolina senator Kay Patterson, who rose from cleaning offices at the segregated Statehouse to serving as a state legislator for over 30 years died Friday.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Former South ... 30 years died Friday. He was 93. The South Carolina Democratic Party announced Patterson's death saying he "left an indelible mark on our state. Senator ...

Kay Patterson, who rose from cleaning offices at the segregated Statehouse to serving as a state legislator for over 30 years died ... to the South Carolina House in 1974 and the Senate 10 years ...