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The Coming Street YWCA, built in 1964, played a pivotal role in the Civil Rights Movement. It's been demolished by the College of Charleston as the school hopes to build new dorms.
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Members of South Carolina State Fire's Palmetto Incident Support Team will assist with emergency preparedness efforts ahead of potential impacts from Hurricane Lala. -
The collection of photographs by Richard Samuel Roberts offers a rare look at Black families, businesses, schools, and communities in early 20th-century Columbia. -
Oysters are much more than a favorite seafood. A single oyster can filter gallons of water each day, helping improve water quality and support healthy coastal ecosystems. -
A man from Augusta was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison Thursday morning, for having shot a state trooper during a 2023 traffic stop. -
The presiding judge in Alex Murdaugh's new trial will have plenty to consider Friday as both the defense and prosecution square off in a flurry of recently filed motions. -
Three people, including a 16-year-old and a 17-year-old, have been charged in connection with the shooting death of a Gaffney High School student this week.
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Latest episodes of Walter Edgar's Journal
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OilstreetThis week we’ll be talking with Charleston author James M. Scott, author of Empire of Ashes: Truman, Hirohito, and the Descent into Total War (2026, W.W. Norton & Company). With startling immediacy, Empire of Ashes illuminates the moral dilemma at the center of America’s decision to inflict total war upon Japan. -
Don Troiani/U.S. National Guard via Wikimedia CommonsThis week we will be talking with Carl P. Borick, author of Backcountry Resistance: South Carolina's Militia and the Fight for American Independence (2026, USC Press).As the title indicates, Carl’s book focuses on rank-and-file militiamen of the backcountry and explores how these ordinary men were recruited, armed, fed, and motivated.Drawing on underused pension records and state claims, he reconstructs their everyday realities and their battlefield experiences. He also examines the war's devastating effects on civilians, including enslaved people and women, who played crucial roles in the struggle.
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Latest Episodes of the SC Lede
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SC Public RadioOn this episode of the South Carolina Lede for August 11, 2026: you’ve already heard from the candidates, now you’re going to hear from the voters on this special election day; we’ll also discuss Pres. Donald Trump’s influence on this race; host Gavin Jackson brings you clips from his visit to Joint Base Charleston, now Joint Base Lindsey Graham, on Monday; and more! -
SC Public RadioOn this episode of the South Carolina Lede for August 8, 2026: host Gavin Jackson introduces you to the top five candidates vying for the republican nomination for U.S. Senate on August 11 in the Senate special republican primary.
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MUSCThis week, Bobbi Conner talks with MUSC's Dr. Anthony Kent about screening and early detection of kidney disease. -
Provided/Joshua MixsonThis week, Bobbi Conner talks with MUSC's Dr. Joshua Mixson about the health benefits of walking and fast walking, especially in the older adult years.
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In 2025, South Carolina implemented a statewide ban on cellphone use in classrooms. Nationwide, early results are mixed. Some schools report fewer disruptions, more engagement, and small gains in academic performance, and teachers describe calmer classrooms and more attention. -
Each summer, when school lets out, children fall behind in reading. Research shows that students lose one to two months of reading proficiency over the summer. For struggling readers or children with learning disabilities, the losses can be even greater.
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This week, we’re firing up the Who What When time machine and heading back to the 1930s. -
This week is all about a very special relationship: the United States and the United Kingdom.
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From lesson plans to teacher recertification, see the latest from SCETV's Education team.
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Lawmakers want answers from the Pentagon chief and the U.S. Navy about living conditions aboard the USS Lincoln. NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Democratic Sen. Ruben Gallego of Arizona. -
At least eight people died in Japan as heavy rains flooded roads and disrupted traffic while firefighters from Britain to France and Croatia struggled to contain blazes in Europe's fifth heatwave this summer -
Plus, which beloved animal crossed the rainbow bridge, and what bit of papal paraphernalia did Chicago baseball fans get this week? -
Details on how ICE cooperation agreements work in practice have been hard to come by. NPR took a close look at how sheriff's deputies in Walton County, Fla., approach immigration-related arrests. -
A coalition of landowners, outdoor enthusiasts and business owners that say any work in Big Bend National Park would forever change the place often called "Texas' gift to the nation." -
Lawmakers and families raise concerns about conditions aboard USS Lincoln, as the U.S.-Iran war drags on, Iranians seek a break from the conflict, Russian-held Crimea faces Ukrainian drone campaign.
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Workers at a Louisiana community center talk about how helping children has enriched their lives.
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The Kennedy Center's profile has already shifted. If the shutdown is approved by a federal judge, its primary stages will not reopen until at least 2028 and audiences may decline further. -
The Pacific-based aircraft carrier USS George Washington has begun heading toward the Middle East as reports have emerged of mental health and supply issues aboard the long-deployed USS Abraham Lincoln. -
The decision from U.S. District Judge Richard G. Stearns said that President Donald Trump's administration failed to prove an ongoing violation of federal civil rights laws.
