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#1 Parents Want More Warnings After Brain-Eating Amoeba Killed Son in SC Lake

Jul 31 2025 // Two weeks after Jaysen Carr spent the Fourth of July swimming and riding on a boat on one of South Carolina’s most popular lakes, he was dead from an amoeba that lives in the warm water and entered his brain through...

#2 Radioactive Wasp Nest Found at SC Site Where US Once Made Nuclear Bombs

Aug 1 2025 // COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Workers at a site in South Carolina that once made key parts for nuclear bombs in the U.S. have found a radioactive wasp nest but officials said there is no danger to anyone.Employees who routinely...

#3 South Carolina’s Abandoned Nuclear Plants Could be Revived as Firm Offers $2.7B

Dec 12 2025 // South Carolina’s stalled nuclear power project could finally finish construction as a private company has offered to pay $2.7 billion to the state-owned utility and a small share of the power if they can reach an...

#4 2 South Carolina Deputies Hurt by Live Rounds Kept in Baggie in Desk Drawer

Aug 8 2025 // COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Two deputies shot and injured in a training exercise in South Carolina were wounded by ammunition taken from a plastic bag in a desk drawer and not property tested to see if they were blanks, a...

#5 GEICO Can’t Slip Out of SC Lawsuit That Says it Owes $70M in Taxes and Penalties

Nov 19 2025 // GEICO insurance companies can’t dismiss a South Carolina lawsuit that demands they pay almost $70 million in back taxes and penalties, a federal judge ruled in a case that could ultimately affect how insurance taxes...

#6 Shooting at Packed SC Bar Kills 4 and Injures At Least 20 More

Oct 14 2025 // A mass shooting early Sunday at a crowded bar on an idyllic island considered to be the largest Gullah community on the South Carolina coast has left four people dead and at least 20 injured, officials said.A large crowd...

#7 SC Law Enforcement Says No Arson Evidence in Fire That Destroyed Judge’s Home

Oct 8 2025 // State agents have so far found no evidence that a fire that destroyed a judge’s home on a South Carolina island was intentionally set, the state’s top law enforcement official said Monday.The Saturday blaze...

#8 SC Comp Commission Must Relinquish $1.8M From Bankrupt Firm, Appeals Court Says

Sep 25 2025 // The South Carolina Workers’ Compensation Commission had no legal right to hold on to – for more than 15 years – some $1.8 million set aside by a bankrupt textile manufacturer for injury claims that never...

#9 SC House Approves Liquor Liability Bill But Broader Tort Reform May Be Dead

Mar 7 2025 // The South Carolina House of Representatives voted 109-0 Thursday in favor of a bill that would end joint-and-several liability for bars and restaurants and would incentivize additional alcohol-server training, an effort to...

#10 Amwins Expands Professional Products as Stonetrust Moves Into South Carolina

Jan 16 2026 // Less than a month after Stonetrust Commercial Insurance announced it had expanded into North Carolina, the workers’ compensation carrier has added South Carolina to its sphere of influence.Based in Baton Rouge,...

#11 South Carolina DOI Names Noga, Formerly With GuideOne, as Captives Director

Apr 4 2025 // The South Carolina Department of Insurance named Andy Noga, formerly CEO and general counsel of GuideOne Insurance Group, as director of captives, underscoring the state’s commitment to fostering captive insurance...

#12 South Carolina DOI Pitches Rate Cut on Some Credit Property Insurance

Aug 12 2025 // The South Carolina Department of Insurance has proposed new rates for credit property insurance, holding the rate steady for household goods but reducing rates for other categories for 2026.Because rate decreases in recent...

#13 South Carolina Lawmakers Reach Agreement on Liquor Liability Relief Bill

May 7 2025 // With just two days left in South Carolina’s 2025 legislative session, House and Senate negotiators appear to have reached a compromise on a plan to ease liquor liability costs for struggling bars and...

#14 SC Bill Moves to House, Would Lower Liquor Liability Coverage, End Joint-and-Several

Apr 1 2025 // The fate of a bill that would modify South Carolina’s joint-and-several liability law now rests with the state House of Representatives after the state Senate last week approved the measure following weeks of heated...

#15 SC Party Boat Shooting Victim Lawyer Says No One Checked IDs or For Weapons

Jun 5 2025 // No one was checking IDs or for weapons before a party boat cruise that ended with a shooting that hurt 11 people in South Carolina over Memorial Day weekend, a lawyer for one of the victims said.Police have announced a...

#16 South Carolina Republicans Launch TV Ads to Salvage Tort Reform Bill

Feb 25 2025 // Georgia lawmakers aren’t the only ones contemplating a major tort-reform bill during the legislative session this year. Next door, South Carolina’s General Assembly is considering Senate Bill 244, which...

#17 SC Governor Celebrates Dram Shop-Tort Reform Law But Some Want More

May 29 2025 // South Carolina’s governor has signed a liquor liability and tort-reform bill into law, but some lawmakers said broader changes to the state’s legal system are needed.Senate Majority Leader Shane Massey, who...

#18 Crews Battle Wildfires Across Parts of North and South Carolina

Mar 4 2025 // South Carolina’s governor declared a state of emergency this week as dozens of wildfires burned across parts of North and South Carolina, causing evacuations, minor property losses and unhealthy air quality.State,...

#19 People: Canal Insurance in SC Names Grimm Chief Underwriting Officer

Dec 16 2025 // Trucking coverage specialist Canal Insurance, based in Greenville, South Carolina, has named Matthew Grimm chief underwriting officer, effective this week. Grimm Grimm has more than 30 years of experience in the...

#20 Man Torches Tesla Chargers in South Carolina But Catches His Clothes on Fire

Mar 13 2025 // NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A man burned three Tesla chargers in a South Carolina parking lot and also apparently inadvertently set his clothes on fire, police said.The man spray-painted “long live the...