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COLUMBIA - Following the 2024 voter-approved amendment to the South C a r o l i n a C o n s t i t u t i o n affirming that only U.S. citizens may vote, the South Carolina State Election Commission …

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) is deploying drones for the first time to perform internal inspections of radioactive liquid waste tanks at the Savannah …

The Barnwell County Council met Tuesday, May 13, for its regular monthly meeting, addressing a range of items including the approval of a new partnership agreement with the South Carolina National …

College Notes

USCB Chancellor's List Winter 2024 BLUFFTON -- The Chancellor's List recognizes University of South Carolina Beaufort undergraduate degree-seeking students with superb records of academic …

A proud Barnwell County local, Carson Alexander was recently recognized as the 2025 Young Alumna of Excellence by the University of Georgia School of Law.  The award celebrates graduates …

ALLENDALE — In a sweeping decision announced April 1, the National Endowment for the Humanities, or NEH, terminated all active grants, including those supporting state humanities councils such …

SOUTH CAROLINA  — Saturday, May 10 th  marks the 33rd anniversary of the largest one-day food drive in the nation – the National Association of Letter Carriers'  Stamp Out …

A former convenience store worker is charged with lottery fraud. The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) charged Alexianna Khaleyah Fields, 21, of Barnwell, with Intent to Defraud …

Allendale County native Frank M. Rice retired from the National Guard as a Major General on February 8, 2025. Major General Rice graduated from Clemson University in 1987 with a Bachelor of Science …

Sexual Assault Aware- ness Month (SAAM) is an annual campaign observed in April to raise aware- ness about sexual violence, educate communities on prevention, and support survivors. …

The awards keep coming in for Barnwell High School head football coach Brian Smith.  Coach Smith was awarded the American Football Coaches Association Power of Influence Award and will …

The Trump Administration fired South Carolina’s chief federal law enforcement official, who has local roots, as part of a plan to appoint new federal prosecutors. Adair Ford Boroughs, a native …

S.C. Governor Henry Mc- Master issued a proclama- tion this month (January 2025) recognizing South Carolina’s commitment to interfaith goals and reli- gious …

COLUMBIA – Aug. 31 is International Overdose Awareness Day, and the South Carolina Department of Public Health (DPH) is taking time to remember those lost to overdose and to highlight the need …

“SFA Fund, Inc. is responsible for the content of this advertisement,” says a baritone-voiced narrator in the final three seconds of a pro-Nikki Haley video ad, his voice drowned out by the sound …

COLUMBIA — Nearly 131,300 South Carolinians voted in Democrats’ “first-in-the-nation” primary that gave President Joe Biden a blowout victory, according to unofficial results from the state …

Last Wednesday, as sheets of Hurricane Idalia’s rainfall swept through the tri-county area of Barnwell, Allendale and Bamberg counties, the branch of a falling tree smashed through the ceiling of …

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