Michael Allison

1 week ago | live5news.com | Emily Johnson |Michael Allison

BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C. (WCSC) - The highly anticipated retrial of accused murderer Michael Colucci, following a jury’s inability to reach a verdict in 2018, is set to begin Monday. The Summerville jeweler is alleged to have murdered his wife, Sara Lynn Moore-Colucci, back in 2015 outside a family-owned warehouse. Colucci previously went to trial on the charge in 2018, but the judge declared a mistrial on Dec. 7, 2018, when the jury said it could not reach a decision.

3 weeks ago | live5news.com | Emily Johnson |Michael Allison

MONCKS CORNER, S.C. (WCSC) - As a new Berkeley County jail expansion is being built, inmates say they have faced severe overcrowding, unhygienic conditions and inhumane treatment inside the old facility. Jessica Watkins and Tiondre Perry are two women who currently call the Berkeley County Jail home. Watkins has been in the jail for two months and Perry for over a year. “We have people on the floor everywhere; five on the floor right now, and just on our side,” Perry said.

1 month ago | live5news.com | Emily Johnson |Michael Allison

CHARLESTON COUNTY, S.C. (WCSC) - The Department of Justice launched an investigation into the Charleston County jail over a year and a half ago, but where the investigation currently stands is unclear, raising concerns as more inmates continue to die behind the facility’s bars. On Nov. 2, 2023, it would conduct civil rights investigations into the Charleston and Richland county jails after multiple inmate deaths.

1 month ago | live5news.com | Emily Johnson |Michael Allison

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - Charges against child sex criminals are announced very publicly in the Lowcountry, but not many of the accused are sentenced to serve any time behind bars for their crimes. Child sex crimes include child pornography, communicating with underage children online and attempting to have sex with children.

2 months ago | live5news.com | Katie Kamin |Michael Allison

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - Programs that monitor and protect the bottlenose dolphins that leap and play through Charleston’s waterways are now under threat as federal funding cuts loom. Chris Crolley, a captain and guide with Coastal Expeditions, has spent decades connecting people to the region’s wildlife. “We’ve been introducing earthlings to Earth since 1992,” he says. From manatees to warblers, each of his tours tells a story.