Crime 

Convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh is indicted on 22 financial fraud charges over allegations the former attorney schemed to steal settlement money from clients.

Thirty-five-year-old Bradley Fearneyhough of Martinez pleaded guilty and a judge sentenced him to 172 months. The judge also ordered Fearneyhough to pay $21,000 in restitution, register as a sex offender, and serve twenty years of supervised release.

A school shooter serving a life sentence without parole for killing a first grader on a SC playground when he was 14 is asking a judge to lessen his sentence so he can eventually get out of prison.

Authorities say a 37-year-old mother drowned one of her daughters in their SC home and was trying to kill another child when the oldest daughter was awakened by screams and managed to save her sister.

FOX54 has learned the "intruders" that caused the lockdown at Westside High School were students from Lakeside High School in Columbia County.

Investigators say at around 4:16 p.m. Friday, May 19, the sheriff's office's Special Response Team executed a search warrant at a home on the 600 block of Wallace St. in Waynesboro.

Washington County Deputies say they picked up in a vehicle pursuit after the Davisboro Police Department crashed one of its vehicle during the pursuit. 

Deputies say it happened shortly before 9 p.m. on Friday, May 19. The suspect was dressed in dark clothing, light shoes, white gloves, a ball cap and a mask.

t least three people are injured after a crash on Gordon Highway late Sunday night.

A man is in custody after allegedly threatening Richmond County Board of Education police officers on the campus of Glenn Hills High School.

The alleged drunk driver who police say slammed into newlyweds riding along a South Carolina beach road now faces a wrongful death lawsuit alongside several establishments accused of overserving her on the night of the crash, which killed the bride.

The Columbia County Sheriff's Office has charged a man with aggravated assault and false imprisonment after a woman says she went on a date with him, then refused his request for sex.

A grand jury in Georgia has indicted three former sheriff’s officers in the beating of a jail detainee that was recorded by security cameras.

A local family hopes you can help heat up a cold case. It's about the death of Brandon Grubbs. The 21-year-old was killed in his Richmond County home in 2016. The family now wants the case to be turned over to the GBI.

Deputies from the Columbia County Sheriff's Office were involved in a vehicle pursuit late Tuesday night.

A shooting in Grovetown Tuesday ended with a woman turning herself in to police and a man being treated for a gunshot wound.

We now have more information about the officer-involved shooting that happened Tuesday morning in Aiken County.

Deputies say they received shots fired call to the 3000 block of Skinner Mill Road at 6:51 p.m. Monday evening. Once on scene deputies found a male with a gunshot wound and non-life-threatening injuries. 

A South Carolina woman is accused of pretending to be pregnant and hiding cocaine in a fake belly. The Anderson County Sheriff's Office posted a picture of a deputy posing with the rubber prosthetic belly.

A judge’s ruling striking down a federal law banning firearms dealers from selling handguns to young adults under 21 is the latest example of the transforming legal landscape around guns.

Sheriff Richard Roundtree addressed the media, saying that the shootout was between two motorcycle clubs: Thug Riders Motorcycle Club and Outcasts Motorcycle Club.

Artificial intelligence: where did it begin and what does the future look like?

Forty-one-year-old Michael Taylor is wanted for an aggravated stalking incident that happened Mar. 18.

RCSO says it was dispatched to the 3200 block of Deans Bridge Road around 4:35 a.m. Friday morning. Once on the scene deputies found a female who had been shot at least once. 

The Richmond County Sheriff's Office is on the scene of an incident on the 3000 block of Gordon Highway. Dispatch tells FOX54 the call came in shortly before 4:30 a.m. but would not say what the call was in reference to. 

Jason Salter, 39, and Kenny Guerra, 35, who owned the Rockstar Printing Shop, were last seen on February 25. Human remains were discovered at the 8,000-acre Bouckaert Farm on March 11

Investigators arrested thirty-four-year-old Jonathan Blake Pinkston of Aiken on May 9, 2023.

According to the Richmond County Detention Center, twenty-six-year-old Caurey Rollins is still incarcerated but has a listed bond of $38,700.

Marshals in Philadelphia are seeking help from the public in light of “credible information” that the now-17-year-old suspect was “hiding in the Atlanta, Georgia area," the Marshals Service task force said.

Five people shot, one dead, at a party in Girard, GA early Saturday