The bill passed both legislative chambers and is heading to the governor's desk, where it is expected to be signed into law.

Authorities say a 37-year-old mother drowned one of her daughters and was trying to kill another child when the oldest daughter was awakened by screams.

Gov. Henry McMaster, a Republican, has rebuffed demands that he apologize for what many see as a racially loaded remark.

Jesse Osborne’s two life sentences are “so much more merciful” than what his victims received, the elementary school's principal told a judge.

"The last thing I remember her saying is she wanted the night to never end," Aric Hutchinson, who filed a wrongful death lawsuit after Samantha Miller was killed, told "Good Morning America."

Republican lawmakers in Nebraska, North Carolina and South Carolina all found ways to revive restrictive abortion bans in their states.