A 13-year-old girl has been identified as the body that was found during a fire at an unoccupied home, according to Richland County Coroner Naida Rutherford.

A South Carolina inmate who has spent more than half his life on death row has chosen to die by lethal injection. His execution is scheduled for the end of this month.

Federal investigators have found in a report that a large South Carolina jail vastly underreports the violence behind its walls, lets dozens of inmates go unsupervised for long periods and lets crimes

There is also a good chance a winter storm will develop around Texas next Monday, then track toward the southeast U.S. If the moisture from this system lines up with sub-freezing temperatures, then we could have a threat for snow or ice in South Carolina next Tuesday or Wednesday.

College GameDay will make a stop in South Carolina next week. The program will be in Columbia for the South Carolina Women's basketball game against LSU. The game is set for 7 p.m. WYFF News 4 will be there for all the action and bring you the latest on-air and online.

COLUMBIA, S.C. – The No. 5 Virginia men’s tennis team (1-0) opened the 2025 dual match season with a 5-2 road win over No. 15 South Carolina (2-1) on Thursday (Jan. 16) at the Carolina Indoor Tennis Center in Columbia, S.C. Freshman Jangjun Kim won the clinching point for the Cavaliers in his collegiate debut.

ESPN’s “College GameDay” TV show will head to Columbia for the Gamecocks’ matchup with the Tigers on Jan. 23. The one-hour program will air at 7 p.m., preceding the conference rivalry between No. 5 LSU and No. 2 South Carolina.

Staley has not been publicly connected to any WNBA head coaching jobs. In NBA history, no woman has ever served as a full-time head coach. Lisa Boyer, a current USC assistant coach, was the first woman to hold any sort of coaching position in the NBA, assisting the Cleveland Cavaliers from 2001-02.

Coach Dawn Staley has received a contract extension that South Carolina said will make her the highest paid college women’s basketball coach of all time at a total value of about $25 million.

Officials have confirmed that the body discovered in a house fire on Wednesday belongs to a teenager who was reported missing earlier in the week. Police are investigating her death as a suspected murder.