CONWAY, S.C. (AP) _ A judge has ruled that 24 video machines seized this summer in Little River are illegal gambling devices and should be destroyed. Myrtle Beach area solicitor Greg Hembree says video parlors have returned to the state after video poker was outlawed in South Carolina 12 years ago. Operators say the new machines are technically legal and operate on chance.
Keeping your wasteline slim with the food options out there isn't easy, and being cheap is even harder, but Crysty Vaughan has some ideas for you in this Consumer Minute.
According to the Columbia Police Department, a 19 year old has been charged with robbing 2 pizza delivery guys and shooting another man in his own home.
You may want to start saving. Gas prices are on the rise again.
After a month with days of triple digits temperatures some residents say their feeling the heat now that those electric bills are showing up in the mail.
Summer is leaving its imprint across the country.
The National Transportation Safety Board says a fan shaft failed on a Boeing 787 Dreamliner engine during a taxi test at Charleston International Airport.
South Carolina Republicans say impending across-the-board federal spending cuts will devastate South Carolina's military bases. Gov. Nikki Haley says the cuts would mean a loss of 14,000 jobs in South Carolina.
New details revealed by prosecutors in the case against Zinah Jennings, mother of missing Midlands toddler Amir Jennings, show the odor of human remains were found in Jennings' car in December.
Six South Carolina schools receive the Healthy School Award for 2012.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) _ A North Charleston man has been sentenced to decades in prison for his role in a heron case. U.S. Attorney Bill Nettles says a judge on Tuesday sentenced 38-year-old Naarl Joseph Richard to nearly 22 years in prison.
Investigators have identified the body of a woman found in a car in a church parking lot and the man they believe killed her.
South Carolina state employees will pay more for their health care next year after all, despite legislators passing a budget that covered premium hikes.
South Carolina State University is considering cuts, including in sports, as it deals with an accrued $6 million budget deficit.
A water main break on Assembly St. has prompted a boil water advisory for residents in the area.
Your kids are getting ready to go back to school, but the tax-free holiday has come and gone, and you realize you still need to pick up a few items. Those costs add up pretty quickly! How can you save? Crysty Vaughan has some answers in this Consumer Minute.
Parts of Assembly St. will remain closed until further notice, according to a City of Columbia spokesperson.
A water main break is forcing some Midlands residents to boil their water.
A West Columbia man is arrested for trying to break into a First Citizens Bank ATM with a crow bar.
The Richland County Sheriff's Department says it found the body of a female victim inside a car in Christian Faith Fellowship Church's parking lot Tuesday night.
It's a Lexington District One Project two years in the making. With just a few weeks before they open the doors to middle school students, administrators took ABC Columbia inside for a grand tour.
SENECA, S.C. (AP) _ Authorities say a 52-year-old man who disappeared after walking away from his friends has been found dead in Lake Hartwell.
Tonight, communities across the Midlands take part in National Night Out.
The most watched series of competitive sporting events in the world is definitely having a worldwide impact, especially in the Midlands, as local gyms and sporting organizations are seeing a peak in enrollment.
Police in Cayce are searching for two men they say were looking for a five-finger discount from a Midlands electronics store.
