17 h. ago NCAA must pay $18m over alleged failure to warn player about concussion risks

Jury finds college sports’ governing body negligentRobert Geathers has shown signs of CTEA South Carolina jury has decided the NCAA owes a former college football player and his wife $18m, while finding college sports’ major governing body negligent in failing to warn the player about the long-term effects of concussions.Following a civil trial that wrapped up late last week, Orangeburg county jurors awarded $10m to 68-year-old Robert Geathers, who played at South Carolina State University from 1977 to 1980 as a defensive end. His wife, Debra, was awarded $8m, according to a court document. Continue reading...

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68 h. ago Massive explosion as Putin's forces destroy key Kyiv power station

The attack, which will knock out power to heating just as the Ukrainian winter approaches, saw an inferno lighting up the night sky above Kyiv’s left bank, following the missile strike

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3 d. ago South Carolina's state utility says private firm set to restart abandoned $9 billion nuclear project

South Carolina's state-owned utility is negotiating with Brookfield Asset Management to revive a nuclear power project abandoned eight years ago

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5 d. ago Mother spends $21,000 on lifelike baby dolls that look so real people stop her in the street

Mary Lee Beatson, 42, from South Carolina, parents and takes care of the lifelike creations, that aim to mimic the look and feel of real human babies, alongside four children of her own.

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6 d. ago South Carolina man accused of keeping four vulnerable adults captive in his basement charged with murder

Donnie Birchfield Jr. has been charged with the murder of 49-year-old Shirley Arnsdorff

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8 d. ago Man who taunted police with message in victim’s blood to be executed in South Carolina

Stephen Bryant wrote ‘catch me if u can’ on the wall

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1 week ago South Carolina schedules execution for man who taunted police with message in victim's blood

A South Carolina inmate who killed a man, burned his eyes with cigarettes and then painted “catch me if u can” on the wall with the victim’s blood more than 20 years ago has been scheduled to be executed

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1 week ago Keith Urban abruptly cancels South Carolina concert due to health concerns after shock Nicole Kidman divorce

The 57-year-old country singer was forced to pull out of his High And Alive World Tour stop in Greenville due to coming down with laryngitis.

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1 week ago The greatest women's college basketball players: Who made the list?

Cheryl Miller, Diana Taurasi and Candace Parker are among a select group named the best to ever play the game during the 50 years of the women's basketball poll

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1 week ago A crowd of 700, but no witnesses? South Carolina investigation into mass shooting at bar stalls

A sheriff says his deputies continue their methodical investigation into a shooting at a South Carolina bar that killed four people and injured 16 others

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1 week ago Head of South Carolina elections fired after voting machine contract had unexplained $4M overrun

The South Carolina Election Commission is investigating why a $28 million contract for new voting machines ended up costing $4 million more

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1 week ago Murdaugh Death in the Family reviews as true crime drama falls flat

Murdaugh: Death in the Family has just started airing on Disney Plus and Hulu, and the true crime drama tells the unbelievable story of the infamous Murdaugh family from South Carolina

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1 week ago Murdaugh: Death in the Family review – Patricia Arquette is fantastic in this obscene true

The acting may be brilliant in the horrible real-life story of a family whose sordid tale ends in a double murder. But when everything about the subjects is so rotten, why on Earth would you want to watch?How fascinatingly horrible were the Murdaugh family? Very, according to how much true-crime content they’ve generated. There’s already been a hit podcast about them, untangling a narrative that began in enviable luxury and ended with a sordid double murder. There’s already been a TV documentary. Now the Murdaughs complete the set with Murdaugh: Death in the Family, the plush fictionalised drama retelling the same awful tale.At its heart is a trio of strong performances, primed for awards season. Jason Clarke – also currently excellent as a different kind of alpha male in The Last Frontier on Apple TV+ – is Richard Alexander “Alex” Murdaugh, a powerhouse personal injury attorney and member of a South Carolina dynasty whose men have been the biggest beasts in the courtroom for genera...

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1 week ago UConn tops women's preseason AP Top 25 ahead of South Carolina, UCLA; SEC has 5 teams in top 10

UConn is the No. 1 team in the country in The Associated Press Top 25 preseason women's basketball poll

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1 week ago The historic Gullah community rocked by a mass shooting on St. Helena Island

St. Helena Island, South Carolina, is home to the largest Gullah community

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2 w. ago What to know about the historic Black community rocked by a mass shooting on Sunday

A mass shooting killed four and injured several others on St. Helena Island, South Carolina, home to the largest Gullah community

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2 w. ago 3 men, 1 woman identified as dead after weekend bar shooting in South Carolina

Authorities have identified four people who were killed during a weekend mass shooting at a bar on a South Carolina island

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2 w. ago ‘This has just been too much for me’: Woman, 82, accused of shooting husband dead at South Carolina nursing home

Investigators say notes found in the suspect’s purse suggest the shooting was premeditated

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2 w. ago 16 killed in ‘devastating’ blast that destroyed a Tennessee military explosives plant, police say

The families of the 16 victims have been notified, officials said on Saturday evening

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2 w. ago South Carolina ‘high school alumni party’ ends in tragedy after four killed and 20 injured in bar shooting, reports say

Hundreds of people were at the bar when shots rang out, police said

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