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An Aiken industrial plant received a visit from a statewide elected official Thursday afternoon. Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette visited the AGY to meet with employees and to tour the AGY Holding Corporation manufacturing facility and headquarters located on Wagener Road, east of Aiken.

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Alex Murdaugh looked “clean from head to toe” in his first interview with investigators just hours after his wife and son were brutally shot to death, according to testimony prosecutors elicited on the third day of Murdaugh’s double murder trial in Walterboro.

South Carolina saw nearly 70 new deaths from COVID-19 for the week that ended Jan. 7 and more than 7,800 new cases of COVID-19 for the week that ended Jan. 14, according to the weekly update from the Department of Health and Environmental Control.

Curtis “Cousin Eddie” Smith has been subpoenaed as a potential witness in Alex Murdaugh’s upcoming double murder case, but state prosecutors apparently don’t want the disabled trucker to play a starring role in South Carolina’s trial of the century.

Thanks to more than $57,000 in donations from South Carolina donors and foundations, a national nonprofit was able to purchase nearly $12 million in medical debt owed by more than 12,700 families, offering relief in time for the holidays.

Michael Bartley’s hiring in the coroner's office comes amid lingering questions in the death this year of a South Carolina State student — a case Bartley worked on, according to the student’s family. The 2013 federal conviction could make it difficult for him to testify in court as it goes directly to his credibility, one legal expert said.

One initiative, Choose Well SC, a 2017 contraceptive access initiative of the New Morning Foundation in Columbia, is taking considerable credit for the over 40 percent reduction in unintended pregnancies and births from 2017 to 2020. But officials from the state health agency said the initiative is not the only contributor to the sizable decrease. 

Just over 1 in 5 people in South Carolina have been vaccinated against the flu as the state faces down an early surge that is the worst start to flu season in a decade. 

"After Action," a new series highlighting conversations with veterans, will premiere on Nov. 11 at 9 p.m. on ETV and be distributed by PBS to public television stations throughout the U.S.


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