Basil Watson calls it an honor to create a likeness of Smalls, the first Black person honored with a statue at the SC State House.

Artist Basil Watson is creating the first statue of an African American, Civil War hero Robert Smalls, to be placed on South Carolina's Statehouse grounds.

Beaufort police arrested two men after an apparent gunfight in a McDonald’s parking lot Wednesday night. The two suspects, a ...

A 19-year-old sailor was believed to be lost at sea this week in an assumed overboard incident that led to a 45-hour search ...

Robert Smalls​ escaped slavery in Charleston by commandeering a Confederate ship and became a top Union naval officer and ...

Before he was a South Carolina lawmaker recognized as a champion of civil rights, Robert Smalls escaped slavery in Charleston ...

The sailor, assigned to the USS George Washington, was reported missing on Monday afternoon local time, and the Navy ...

The U.S. Navy suspended the search for a sailor assigned to USS George Washington (CVN-73) who is believed to have gone ...

A high-speed chase ended in a crash Monday night at a busy Beaufort intersection, sending one person to the hospital and shutting down traffic in part of the city.

The aircraft carrier USS George Washington and its strike group of warships and aircraft are searching the Timor Sea off ...