When a total solar eclipse sweeps across the United States for the first time in 99 years, people gathering in Charleston, South Carolina, are to be the last on the continent to experience it.

Hillary Clinton wins the South Carolina Democratic presidential primary, with polls projecting a large margin between her and rival Bernie Sanders.

Jeb Bush drops out of the US Republican presidential race after a disappointing finish in the South Carolina primary.

A small plane collides in mid-air with a F-16 fighter jet over South Carolina, killing two people and sending debris into a mobile home park.

The first of the funerals for victims of the Charleston church shooting will be held on Thursday in the South Carolina city.

Racism remains "a blight" on society, US President Barack Obama says, in the wake of the killing of nine African-Americans in a South Carolina church.

A white South Carolina police officer is charged with murder after a black man who appeared to be fleeing from him was shot dead.