Dawn Staley has built a culture of excellence at South Carolina, where the goal for the team each year is to win a national championship.

A convicted double murderer has been executed by firing squad – the first such execution in the United States since 2010, according to the South Carolina Department of Corrections. The execution ...

The last time such an execution took place was 15 years ago, in Utah. The South Carolina inmate chose the method because of his concerns about lethal injection, his lawyer said. By Eduardo Medina ...

Child Mortality Task Force Children are dying in North Carolina at the second-highest rate recorded in over a decade — and Black and American Indian youth are at special risk, according to a new ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina Supreme Court has rejected what is likely the final appeal of condemned man Brad Sigmon, clearing the way for Friday's firing squad execution.

A South Carolina man is set to die by firing squad Friday evening, marking the nation’s first such execution since 2010. Brad Sigmon, 67, chose the firing squad over death by lethal injection or ...

All wildfires across North Carolina's National Forests have been contained or mostly contained, according to a 1:45 p.m. news release from the U.S. Forest Service on March 4. The Falls Dam Fire ...

Colder and blustery on Thursday. High wind warning and wind advisories are posted for parts of Western North Carolina until 1 p.m. tomorrow.

The investigation continues into what sparked the fires, the South Carolina Forestry Commission saying it's believed the fires ignited due to someone's backyard burning, not a prescribed burn.

SOUTH CAROLINA (WTVD) -- Heavy thick smoke continues to fill the air in some neighborhoods that surround the Carolina Forest in Myrtle Beach following a wildfire that prompted evacuations over the ...

Anna Skinner is a Newsweek senior reporter based in Indianapolis. Her focus is reporting on the climate, environment and weather but she also reports on other topics for the National News Team ...

The largest fire in the Upstate is a nearly 500-acre blaze near Landrum in Polk County along the South Carolina-North Carolina that has required evacuations and was 30% contained as of the morning ...