Two girls missing from the Murphy Village area of North Augusta are in the care of the South Carolina Department of Social Services, said Capt. Eric Abdullah with the Aiken County Sheriff’s Office.

A federal judge Tuesday sentenced a doctor to 4 1/2 years in prison for illegally prescribing a highly addictive drug to an Irish Traveler in the Murphy Village community of Aiken County. Evidence in ...

The reputation of Murphy Village’s residents reaches far beyond the Palmetto State. The North Augusta community, just past Interstate 20 in Aiken County, is home to one of the largest communities of ...

Federal law officers in May quietly dropped murder-related charges against a North Augusta insurance agent as part of an investigation involving South Carolina’s Irish Travelers. The dropped murder ...

COLUMBIA — Three people, including an associate of the S.C. Irish Travelers, were arraigned Tuesday in a federal courtroom in Columbia on charges they fraudulently obtained life insurance policies on ...

A doctor who illegally provided prescriptions for opioids that then were sold throughout the Irish Travelers’ Murphy Village area in Aiken County also pressured female patients to have sex with him.

All 20 North Augusta residents indicted last week on racketeering and fraud charges have not been arrested, but a hearing in federal court is expected in the coming weeks. Nancy Wicker, chief of the ...

Twenty-four Irish Travelers from the North Augusta area pleaded guilty to criminal conspiracy charges Tuesday at the U.S. courthouse in Columbia. Tuesday’s guilty pleas follow guilty pleas by 25 other ...