Deputies now say an inmate escaped more than 14 hours before they noticed he was missing. John Nigh was caught Tuesday ...

Former Charleston detention deputy Brian S. Ward, 41, was arrested Feb. 13 on charges of furnishing contraband in a county ...

A former Charleston County detention deputy was arrested on several charges on Thursday,” Sheriff Carl Ritchie said. Ward was employed by the Charleston County Sheriff’s Of ...

Nearly three years after Brad Sigmon got his third and last reprieve from execution, the death row inmate has been issued a new death warrant. He is set to be executed March 7, the fourth state ...

Marcus Jordan was reportedly arrested for driving under the influence, cocaine possession, and resisting arrest.

BOTTOM LINE: Winthrop visits Charleston Southern after Kelton Talford scored 20 points in Winthrop's 96-93 victory against the Gardner-Webb Runnin' Bulldogs. The Buccaneers are 6-3 in home games.

Finklea Detention Center has died after they were found unresponsive in a cell. The Berkeley County Sheriff’s Office said ...

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster denied clemency for the man set to be executed Friday night for a 2001 Dorchester County ...

TONIGHT, ANOTHER SOUTH CAROLINA INMATE WAS ... TRUNK OF A CAR IN DORCHESTER COUNTY. HE DIED BY LETHAL INJECTION AT 627 TONIGHT. THAT FOLLOWS TWO EXECUTIONS OF INMATES FROM THE UPSTATE.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina put a third inmate to death in four months ... Bowman was convicted in Dorchester County in 2002 of murder in the killing of 21-year-old Kandee Martin ...