Authorities say a 35-year-old prisoner serving a life sentence for murder killed himself with an overdose of prescription drugs.

Two people have pleaded guilty to federal charges in connection with a drug ring that spanned several states, including North Carolina and South Carolina.

The Columbia Museum of Art is preparing for it most expensive exhibition ever.

The room is filled with competitive teenagers and adults oddly attired in all white, tethered electronically to crucial point counters amid a cacophony of steel clashing with steel.

Archaeologists hadn't even begun the most recent dig at Fort Johnson near an early 1800s powder magazine when the real find was made out on the beach.

The 17th week of the legislative session:

More than a dozen people in Hilton Head are being treated by a doctor after they held, fed or kissed a baby raccoon that later tested positive for rabies.

Had James Blake died today, his widow wouldn't have a grave to visit.

A former South Carolina associate warden who claimed he was fired when he refused to go along with his bosses' criticism of security after a prison riot was awarded $350,000 by a jury, his attorney said Friday.

Authorities say a man has died a few hours after he stumbled on to a busy Greenville road screaming for help and saying he had been stabbed.

Bond has been denied for an Alabama man charged with raping a 14-year-old South Carolina girl he met on MySpace.

University of South Carolina president Andrew Sorensen will address graduates for a final time before retiring later this year.

South Carolina could join its neighbors in allowing mixed martial arts contests under legislation up for discussion next week by a Senate panel.

Dixie Roberts watched, stunned, as the sea of eyes flowed toward her. The announcer had just called her name, telling Chester High School's senior class that she was the prom queen.

New graduates of the University of South Carolina should strive to bring the sense of community they shared at the school to the new places they will live, retiring president Andrew Sorensen said Friday during his final commencement speech.