South Carolina

A woman who often walked her dog near a golf course lagoon across the street from her vacation home was killed Monday by an alligator that dragged her into the greenish water at a private resort on the South Carolina coast.

Officials say the two year old South Carolina boy who was found with a gunshot wound to the leg when his mother’s vehicle was pulled over in Broome County April 6 had been accidentally shot by a sibling.

An Amtrak passenger train slammed into a parked freight train in the early-morning darkness Sunday after a thrown switch sent it hurtling down a side track, authorities said. Two Amtrak crew members were killed, and more than 100 people were injured.

A South Carolina man has died after a sheriff's deputy struck his car while chasing a stolen vehicle.

A man who drove into a graveside service at a South Carolina cemetery is expected in court on 12 counts of attempted murder.

Two sharks have been tracked close to South Carolina's Myrtle Beach.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina authorities are searching for an escaped maximum-security inmate who's suspected of stabbing a police officer.

FOLLY ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — A bomb squad is at a South Carolina beach after Hurricane Matthew apparently unearthed old Civil War cannonballs from the sand.

TOWNVILLE, S.C. (AP) — A 6-year-old boy who died after a teen gunman opened fire at a South Carolina elementary school is remembered as a superhero.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Ten men, including a South Carolina police chief, have been arrested in an undercover prostitution sting in Columbia.