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Let's be honest, most of us probably don’t put much thought into prepping for winter weather like we do for hurricane season. But Old Man Winter can bring a variety of weather between now and next Spring.

Former Democratic South Carolina Congressman John Spratt, who served in the state’s 5th Congressional District from 1983 to 2011, died Saturday at age 82, among family, Spratt’s daughter, Catherine confirmed Sunday.

On this episode of the South Carolina Lede for December 14, 2024: we look at why the federal government is suing South Carolina; reporter Maayan Schechter tells us of two South Carolinians among the 39 folks Biden pardoned along with nearly 1,500 people prison sentence commutations; Senate Republicans are going all-gas-no-brakes on a third attempt at a school voucher bill; and more!

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Former South Carolina Sen. Kay Patterson, who rose from cleaning offices at the segregated Statehouse to serving as a state legislator for over 30 years died Friday. He was 93.

April 20, 2024, was a warm, mostly sunny Saturday in Rock Hill, until it wasn’t. A little after 4 p.m., a microburst of hailstones fell across a narrow slice of York County in general, and a small neighborhood in Rock Hill in particular.

In the remaining weeks left in his presidency, President Joe Biden on Thursday reduced the prison sentences of nearly 1,500 people and pardoned 39 people convicted of non-violent crimes, including two women from South Carolina.