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News, community and education highlights from around our area of the SC Lowcountry. Four local families celebrate Father's Day with new arrivals. The Beaufort Memorial Collins Birthing Center welcomed four Father's Day arrivals on Sunday, including one baby from Ridgeland, one from Bluffton and one from Okatie. Angie...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - Forecasters are expecting an area of showers and thunderstorms over the Atlantic Ocean to form into a tropical depression or storm sometime Monday. The area of low pressure currently referred to as AL90 is located around 600 miles east of Bermuda. It has a 70% chance of formation in the next...

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – A worker died last week following an accident at a construction site near I-26 eastbound in North Charleston. Officers with the North Charleston Police Department responded to the scene under the Weber Boulevard overpass on the afternoon of June 16. Once there, police learned that the...

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – North Charleston officers arrested four people and confiscated firearms they said were “illegally possessed or unlawfully carried” in separate incidents. The first arrest happened Saturday while an officer was conducting proactive patrols near Rivers Avenue and Cherokee Street...

The recently proposed youth curfew for downtown Charleston became law on June 17, following a vote by the Charleston City Council. The new ordinance bans minors 17 and younger from King Street and the central business district after 9 p.m. The curfew took immediate effect after the June 17 unanimous...

The 25th anniversary of the Charleston Five strike marks a momentous chapter in the history of labor and civil rights in the United States, particularly in Charleston, South Carolina. In January 2000, five International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) members—Jason Edgerton, Elijah Ford Jr., Kenneth Jefferson, Ricky...

The long lost bones of one victim of South Carolina serial killer Donald “Pee Wee” Gaskins have been found in a box in a storage closet at the College of Charleston. The bones belong to Martha Ann Dicks, a 19-year-old woman who disappeared in the summer of 1971, according to Sumter County Coroner Robert “Robbie”...

Tucked away just minutes from downtown Greenville, there’s a place where Saturn rings twinkle overhead, prehistoric beasts lurk in the woods, and butterflies glide through the South Carolina sunshine like floating confetti. It’s not a theme park or a movie set—it’s Roper Mountain Science Center, and it’s just waiting to spark your sense of wonder.

CHARLESTON COUNTY, S.C. — The Charleston County School District (CCSD) has successfully sold approximately $49.3 million in general obligation bonds, a significant step in funding the construction of four North Charleston school projects. This funding will help cover the remaining construction costs for A.C. Corcoran...

A 22-year-old man from North Charleston, Moamen Hassan, has been arrested and is facing charges for threatening the lives of residents at a local apartment complex. Hassan was taken into custody on charges of first-degree assault and battery, as well as pointing and presenting a weapon at a person. The...