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ATLANTA — After voters wrote in Mr. Potato Head, Mickey Mouse and hundreds of other names on their ballots, an election official awarded all those votes to the real candidate in a low-profile ...

SANTEE – Lake Marion Middle School is officially open for the school year. A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held in July to kick off the opening. “It’s a new day for the children of Orangeburg ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCIV) — Marion Bowman Jr., a 44-year-old inmate, is scheduled to be executed Friday night, marking the first execution in South Carolina this year. Bowman, a native of Dorchester ...

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MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - The Mobile Area Water and Sewer System has announced that it will permanently close Big Creek Lake to all recreational boating and fishing, effective immediately. This ...

South Carolina executed Marion Bowman Jr. by lethal injection on Friday in the first execution in the United States this year. Bowman, who was pronounced dead at 6:27 p.m., was on Death Row for ...

COLUMBIA — Marion Bowman Jr. died by lethal injection Jan. 31, becoming the first person executed in the United States this year and the third man put to death in South Carolina since the state ...

South Carolina plans to execute Marion Bowman Jr. on Friday for the Feb. 16, 2001, shooting death of 21-year-old Kandee Martin, who was killed five days before her son's second birthday.

The Charleston Parks Conservancy removed 33 bald cypress trees from the Beaufain Street side of Colonial Lake Park in ...

South Carolina is preparing to execute the third ... appeals while the state couldn’t find lethal injection drugs. Marion Bowman Jr.’s execution is scheduled for 6 p.m. Friday at a Columbia ...