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Disbarred attorney Alex Murdaugh arrives in court in Beaufort, S.C. Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023. Murdaugh appeared publicly as a convicted murderer for the first time at the state court hearing regarding the slew of financial crimes allegedly committed by the disbarred South Carolina attorney. (AP Photo/James Pollard)

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Alex Murdaugh makes his first appearance in court since his murder trial
By JAMES POLLARD - Associated Press/Report for America
Thu,09/14/23-10:34AM , 114 Reads
BEAUFORT, S.C. (AP) — Alex Murdaugh appeared publicly for the first time since his murder trial at a Thursday state court hearing over the slew of financial crimes allegedly committed by the disbarred South Carolina attorney.
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Over two dozen abortion rights supporters attend a rally outside the South Carolina State House in Columbia, .C., on Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023. The South Carolina Supreme Court ruled Wednesday to uphold a law banning most abortions except in the earliest weeks of pregnancy. (AP Photo/James Pollard)

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South Carolina abortion ban with unclear 'fetal heartbeat' definition creates confusion, doctors say
By JAMES POLLARD - Associated Press/Report for America
Thu,08/24/23-11:22PM , 97 Reads
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — When the South Carolina Supreme Court upheld a ban on most abortions this week, the majority wrote that they were leaving “for another day” a decision on when, exactly, the “fetal heartbeat” limit begins during pregnancy.
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AP correspondent Ed Donahue on Abortion South Carolina.

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South Carolina's new all-male highest court reverses course on abortion, upholding strict 6-week ban
By JAMES POLLARD - Associated Press/Report for America
Wed,08/23/23-9:24AM , 115 Reads
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina’s newly all-male Supreme Court reversed course on abortion Wednesday, upholding a law banning most such procedures except in the earliest weeks of pregnancy.
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Jonesville Historic Gullah Neighborhood resident Josephine Wright stands between her home and an orange safety fence that boarders the 29-acre construction site, Tuesday, July 18, 2023, in Hilton Head Island, S.C. A Georgia-based developer's planned 147-unit short-term rental complex that broke ground last summer. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton)

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Developers have Black families fighting to maintain property and history
By JAMES POLLARD - Associated Press/Report for America
Sat,08/12/23-12:00AM , 180 Reads
PHILLIPS COMMUNITY, S.C. (AP) — The Rev. Elijah Smalls Jr. once grew okra, butter beans and other vegetables in the neighborhood where his family has lived near the South Carolina coast since not long after the Civil War. That was before new half-a-million-dollar homes in a nearby subdivision overwhelmed the drainage system.
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