Jeffrey Collins

2 months ago | chronicle-tribune.com | Jeffrey Collins |Brittany Peterson |Jeffrey Collins |Brittany Peterson

When Nicole Taylor and her family moved to their new home in the South Carolina mountains six months ago, the gorgeous view of Table Rock Mountain was the clincher. She ended up with a porch-side seat to one of at least a half dozen wildfires in the Blue Ridge Mountains of the Carolinas, fed by dry conditions and millions of trees that were knocked down by Hurricane Helene in 2024 and began decaying into tinderbox fuel.

Dec 27, 2024 | chronicle-tribune.com | Jeffrey Collins |Ali Swenson

Oct 29, 2024 | chronicle-tribune.com | Jeffrey Collins |Jeffrey Collins

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A judge in South Carolina ruled Friday that it is too late to reopen voter registration for nearly 1,900 teens after the state Department of Motor Vehicles failed to notify election officials that they checked the box to register as they got their driver's licenses. The teens were 17 at the time they went to the DMV, but would be 18 by Election Day.

Feb 6, 2024 | chronicle-tribune.com | Patrick Whittle |Jeffrey Collins

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Clemson football coach Dabo Swinney, South Carolina football coach Shane Beamer and Coastal Carolina football coach Tim Beck all came together at the Statehouse to urge lawmakers to pass a law allowing their schools to directly compensate their athletes. The call for name, image and likeness legislation came Tuesday in a South Carolina House education committee hearing.