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Susan Smith to ask parole board for her freedom after serving 30 years for drowning her children

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Susan Smith, the South Carolina mother convicted of killing her two sons by rolling her car into a lake in 1994 with the boys strapped in their seats inside, will ask a parole board for her freedom on Wednesday.
Susan and David Smith address reporters Nov. 2, 1994 during a news conference in Union, S.C. They pleaded for the safe return of their sons, 14-month-old Alex, and Michael, 3, who had been missing since an alleged car-jack-kidnapping over a week earlier. (AP photo/Mary Ann Chastain)

Bundle Up! The coldest air of the season arrives Wednesday !

If you’re ready to be done with the rain and pull out your holiday sweaters you are in luck! The coldest air of the season is pushing into our area and will last for several days.

Malloy protests SC Senate vote recount vs. Chaplin

Democratic State Sen. Gerald Malloy has filed a protest over the results of a recount in his race to retain his seat in Senate District 29.
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Several escaped monkeys still loose in the Lowcountry as animal advocates call for investigation

Take a turn at the train station and you’ll come across Annette Youmans’ shop. It’s one of just a handful of businesses in Yemassee, SC, a town that's population is roughly 1,500.
Several monkeys as seen from roadside at the Alpha Genesis Primate Research Center's second facility just outside Yemassee. 43 monkeys escaped another facility, and several are still missing two weeks later. Th company breeds and sells primates worldwide for medical research. Nov. 14, 2024.

Going to Space with Nancy Mace

On this episode of the South Carolina Lede for November 19, 2024: we hear from state House Republican leaders on their priorities for next session; we get the final recount numbers in for one of the four Senate Democratic seats Republicans flipped; we take a look at leadership changes in the U.S. Senate; and more!
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A Greenville mother's evacuation from a storm highlights the high cost of extreme weather

Just before Tropical Storm Helene tore a path through the western Carolinas in September, a violent microburst hit Greenville County.
Sylvia Vandross only has a few more mortgage payments on her Greenville house. And while she's paying it, she and her son are living elsewhere, as insurers and restorers work out how and when they can repair this nearly century-old place from Helene-related damage.

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