COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — After the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the final appeal of a South Carolina inmate, he decided not to ask the governor for clemency, saying he didn’t want to spend the rest of his life in prison for a murder he has always insisted he did not commit.

South Carolina Treasurer Curtis Loftis says calls for him to resign over an accounting error that left the state sorting out what happened to a $1.8 billion fund amounted to a witch hunt.

Lawmakers in Columbia aren’t the only ones trying to tackle the problem of abandoned boats littering South Carolina waterways. Law enforcement, local businesses and nonprofit groups like veteran-based Wounded Nature are pitching in to solve the problem.

One person was taken to a South Carolina hospital and another was detained following a Monday morning shooting, according to the Columbia Police Department. At about 10 a.m., officers responded to a report of a shooting in the 5700 block of Farrow Road, police said. That’s in a part of Richland County between S.C. 277 and U.S. 21/North Main Street.

South Carolina has dozens of hidden gems if you want a local vacation, including a treehouse in Greenville, a former church in Columbia and a bus in Charleston.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina State Senator Margie Bright Matthews delivered the Democratic response Wednesday to Gov. Henry McMaster's State of the Address . McMaster spent the speech talking up the state's economy and discussing and outlining his plans for education and energy policy.

According to the South Carolina Department of Agriculture, nearly 25,000 farms and 4.8 million acres of farmland in the state are driven by agriculture.

Halfway through SEC play, South Carolina women's basketball is undefeated. Here's what February looks like for Dawn Staley and the Gamecocks.

South Carolina is preparing to execute the third inmate since September as the state goes through a backlog of prisoners who exhausted their appeals while the state couldn’t find lethal injection drugs.

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) said an earthquake was reported in the Midlands on Friday. According to the USGS, the 2.0 magnitude quake hit the Elgin area around 3:47 a.m. It had a depth of three kilometers.

The university and its foundation have continued to acquire Columbia properties east of the historic Horseshoe.