Charleston SC

Summer storms showcase the beauty and power of nature. icture yourself relaxing on the beach on a picture-perfect summer day. Blue skies, wispy clouds, gentle waves, birds calling, and children running along the sand. An unexpected rumble rolls past. You’ve just finished a snack, so it can’t be your stomach. You turn...

BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C. (WCBD) – A driver is dead and passenger injured after running off a Berkeley County road and hitting a tree. Cpl. Nick Pye with the South Carolina Highway Patrol said the crash happened around 7:20 p.m. on Cooper Store Road near Ashlerryan Lane. The driver of a Chevrolet SUV was heading east […]

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - North Charleston Police said two lanes have reopened following an accident on I-26 westbound Sunday afternoon. The accident occurred in the area of Ashley Phosphate Road in Windsor Hill.

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – Twenty-five years have passed since the H.L. Hunley, a Civil War-era submarine once thought to be lost at sea forever, was raised from the ocean floor just off the Charleston coast. The roughly 40-foot Confederate submarine made history when it became the world’s first successful combat...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – Rev. Joseph Darby Jr., a celebrated Charleston pastor and civil rights leader, has died. He was 74. Darby was a 15-year survivor of colorectal cancer; however, his cause of death was not provided. Family members said in their announcement that Darby died peacefully Friday night, just a day...

After 50 years of marriage, I’d like to say my beautiful wife and I have come a long way, but we haven’t. Certainly there could be better things to tell her as we mark our golden anniversary this weekend. Sybil and I roared into the region and so-called adulthood in 1975 in a musty 1964 Chevrolet Chevelle I’d paid...

ORANGEBURG COUNTY, S.C. (WCBD) – A Hanahan man was arrested early Sunday morning after a collision involving a state trooper on Interstate 26 in Orangeburg County. South Carolina Highway Patrolman Dennis Ricks was conducting a traffic stop outside his patrol vehicle on I-26 at mile marker 166 when he was struck by a...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - Ahead of school starting this week, hundreds of kids and parents attended the city of Charleston’s First Day Festival on Sunday. At the annual festival, kids and their parents walked around Gaillard Auditorium in downtown Charleston as they learned more about everything that they need for...

Closing a major commercial spine like King Street to cars is a big move — it reshapes daily life, business, transit, and the character of a city. Below is a balanced look at the likely benefits and trade-offs of making King Street permanently car-free. Improved pedestrian experience and safety....

Inheriting land from family is a rare privilege in today’s economy. But when that land traces its lineage back to ancestors who were once enslaved, the inheritance becomes more than property—it becomes a living connection to history, one that few African Americans can claim. Frederick Lincoln is one...