Lynda Edwards

Wednesday, April 15, 2026, around 7:28 P.M. Dorchester County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to Haven Oaks Apartments, located at 523 Orangeburg Road, after a reported shooting

Summerville Police Department Dispatch said in a post on the social media platform X that police are investigating an April 16, 2026 shooting that left one dead.

By Lynda Edwards and Caitlin Bell [email protected], [email protected]

Here are two reasons to go outside and gaze into the night sky: the peak of the Lyrid meteor shower has arrived, bringing what is normally 15 to 20 shooting stars per hour along with occasional fireballs.

The Wappoo Cut Bridge is closed and police, citing mechanical problems, are not certain when it can open.

of 3 JAMES ISLAND — Mosquito Beach was a Black-owned wonderland of music, food and games, complete with a boardwalk and pavilion for dancing.

North Charleston's Ingevity manufacturing plant was on fire and North Charleston put the fire out. No injuries reported.

A single vehicle car crash on Johns Island is impacting traffic on Bohicket Road near Sammons Road First responders are on the scene.

Mount Pleasant's Nick Black went from his Johns Hopkins University graduation to some of Afghanistan's most ferocious battles.

In the deep red state of South Carolina, there are Christian and Jewish worshippers who volunteered in Gaza, where they delivered emergency food rations to nursing mothers and children, set up first aid clinics and worked in hospitals.