Emergency contraception has been available by prescription only to those under 17 and was for sale only behind pharmacy counters until now.

The Food and Drug Administration has approved the availability of the morning-after pill to girls 15 and older without a prescription.

GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) _ A maintenance worker at a Greenville County church is charged with 27 sex crimes dating back nearly 40 years.

A near-death experience for one Midlands sheriff's deputy leaves her thankful and ready to put the past behind her. But as ABC Columbia's Monique Williams discovered, as the officer gets a new bullet proof vest, she never wants to forget the day she could've died without the old one.

Caterpillar says it plans to close its Summerville remanufacturing plant next year, a move that will put 280 people out of work.

GAFFNEY, S.C. (AP) _ A Gaffney man has been charged with murder after a man died four days after being shot at a gas station.

Defense attorneys for accused killer, Brett Parker, asked for 30 days but were granted a week to review evidence they say they never received from prosecutors until solicitors attempted to present it in court today. The State claims the defense is stalling, trying to buy as much time for the defendant as possible.

South Carolina has received 1.2 million adult doses of potassium iodide for distribution to residents living within the 10-mile Emergency Planning Zone of five nuclear power plants

New York police have secured a lower Manhattan site where surveyors discovered what appears to be part of one of the planes destroyed in the Sept. 11 attacks.

BEAUFORT, S.C. (AP) _ Port Royal residents are getting a glimpse of how a planned jellyfish unloading operation would work.

(WOLO) Columbia, SC-Sheriff Leon Lott has a passion for creating success for our youth and their parents. He believes that creating opportunities for accountability and communication between our youth, parents, service organizations and deputies will in turn provide our youth with the chance to compete in the world.

Following a fight between a student and a school bus driver, Sumter sheriff's deputies claim even they haven't seen an incident like this in a while and are now on alert, they say, to make sure it doesn't happen again.

ORANGEBURG, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina State University's trustees are meeting to talk about how much their newly chosen president should get paid.

MARION, S.C. (AP) _ South Carolina agents say two Marion police officers have been arrested for using excessive force on a suspect.

The City of Cayce has launched its newly re-designed website.

WOLO Columbia, SC-While some of us may not enjoy the rain, it's actually helped pull South Carolina out of a drought.