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Across the country, jails are filled with inmates diagnosed with mild to severe mental illnesses. The result is inadequate care for those who need it, increased safety risks for jail personnel and prisoners, and higher costs for taxpayers.

The Mighty Moo Festival returned to Cowpens this week for its 39th year, and there is no shortage of entertaining activities planned through Saturday.

A mobile ministry that serves children in low-income neighborhoods may have prevented a tragedy at Prince Hall Apartments in Spartanburg Thursday.

In Spartanburg, local officials believe the spirit of South Carolina shone brightest in what was perhaps its darkest hour -- the fatal shootings of nine people during Bible study at Emanuel AME Church in Charleson by a gunman who authorities say was motivated by racial hatred.

Strong, rapidly developing thunderstorms have left tens of thousands of people without power in Columbia.

Amid singing and prayer, a communitywide memorial service remembering the victims of the Charleston church shootings got underway Friday in a sports arena a few blocks from Emanuel AME Church.

The South Carolina National Guard is holding a change of command and retirement ceremony to bid farewell to its State Command Sgt. Maj. Robert Brickley Jr.

The Egyptian investigation committee said the flight data recorder of the EgyptAir plane that crashed last month killing all 66 people on board was recovered early Friday from the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, one day after the plane's cockpit voice recorder was also retrieved.

Traffic is delayed on Interstate 85 in Cherokee County after a vehicle overturned.