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2 days ago | postandcourier.com | Bianca Moorman

AIKEN — Local police are asking for the community's help looking for a missing woman from North Augusta. Rachel Jeanie Black, 57, was last seen June 18 by family members, according to a media release from the Aiken County Sheriff's Office. She is a white female that is 5-foot-3 tall, weighs about 120 pounds and has blonde hair and blue eyes. Police said she was last seen driving a white in color 2012 Chevrolet pickup truck with S.C. license number 2428PX.

2 days ago | postandcourier.com | Alan Hovorka

NORTH CHARLESTON — A SWAT team with Georgia State Police arrested a man who claimed he was God while allegedly threatening to kill a city police officer and family and threatening City Hall employees, according to a news release. Police arrested Isiah Demetron Washington, 48, at his home in Covington, Georgia, in the early morning of June 25 in connection with a series of threats June 20. Georgia State Police breached Washington's home with "an explosive device." He came out and surrendered.

3 days ago | postandcourier.com | Nick Reynolds

COLUMBIA — South Carolina's Supreme Court issued an injunction halting the recently implemented, single-year pay increase for state lawmakers one week before it was set to go into effect. The brief two-page ruling comes on the heels of a lawsuit filed by Sen. Wes Climer, R-Rock Hill, challenging his colleagues' decision to increase their monthly in-district expenses from $1,000 to $2,500 per month via a last-second addendum to the 2026 state budget.

3 days ago | postandcourier.com | Anna Mitchell

GREENVILLE — In what administrators characterized as a best guess, given uncertainties around tariffs and labor supply, the state's largest school district has decided to proceed with a $288 million plan to expand and maintain its expansive portfolio of buildings across Greenville County. The Post and Courier’s Education Lab focuses on issues and policies affecting South Carolina’s education system.

3 days ago | postandcourier.com | Nick Reynolds

COLUMBIA — The S.C. Supreme Court heard renewed arguments this week in a years-old battle over the redrawn representation lines for the Charleston-based First Congressional District which opponents say were illegally rigged by legislative mapmakers after the 2020 census to benefit Republicans. The coastal seat is currently held by incumbent Republican U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace and stretches from Charleston to Beaufort.