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MONCKS CORNER, S.C. (WCSC) — Community tips about suspicious activity in Ladson led Berkeley County deputies to arrest a man and seize large quantities of drugs, cash, and firearms, according to the Berkeley County Sheriff’s Office. Rodney Mekhi Black, 24, of Ladson, faces charges of trafficking cocaine, trafficking...

Tucked inside The Jasper on Broad Street, Costa doesn’t just overlook Charleston; it elevates it. With sweeping views of the Ashley River and golden light pouring through floor-to-ceiling windows each evening, the restaurant feels suspended somewhere between the Lowcountry and the sun-drenched Italian coast. It’s...

Beloved Folly restaurant opens third concept just down the road on James Island. Twelve years ago, Jack of Cups Saloon took over a tiny Center Street space, which had previously housed a cozy craft beer bar. What owners Lesley Carroll and Nick Della Penna did with that tiny space changed the Folly dining scene....

BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C. (WCSC) — A lawsuit filed against Berkeley County has now been settled following a 2020 car crash. On Oct. 11, 2020, three members of the Freeman family, Chad, Andrea and Meredith Freeman, were killed in a car accident at the intersection of Nexton Parkway and Brighton Park Boulevard. The lawsuit...

Eddie Rivera, 75, from North Charleston, South Carolina, died at the scene of a crash on March 2, 2026, involving his motorcycle and a heavy-duty pickup truck. Occurred just before 8 a.m. at Dorchester Road and Forest Hills Drive (initial reports mentioned nearby Lowell Drive). Rivera, the motorcyclist, suffered...

If Stephen King had grown up in South Carolina instead of Maine, Stumphouse Tunnel near Walhalla would definitely feature in at least three of his novels. This 1,600-foot abandoned railroad tunnel has everything a master of horror could want: oppressive darkness, isolation, a tragic history, and an atmosphere so...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) — Charleston Police are investigating a shooting at an apartment complex in West Ashley on Wednesday afternoon. Sgt. Chris Stinson says that officers were dispatched at 1:15 p.m. to the Palmilla Apartments on Ashley River Road for a victim suffering a gunshot wound. The victim was...

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) — The North Charleston Police Department has arrested a woman after she allegedly stabbed a person in a mall Wednesday morning. Nevaeh Burgess-Brown, 20, of North Charleston, is charged with attempted murder and possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime, according...

Country Herald is Local News, Independent Pulse. Covering breaking local news, sports, lifestyle and events. Columbia, South Carolina – A stretch of chilly, soaking rain is shaping up across South Carolina ahead of St. Patrick’s Day, with daytime temperatures largely holding in the 50s between March 11 and March...

Nobody really prepares you for the moment you realize a place was designed to break people. Do not hold them, but break them. You can read about it ahead of time and still not fully understand it until you're standing there, staring at walls designed to strip people of their humanity.