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Greenville Deputies Release Shooting Victim's Name

GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) _ Greenville County authorities have released the name of a woman shot to death at her home. Deputy Coroner Kent Dill says 53-year-old Yolanda Kim Thurston was found in a bedroom of her home early Monday morning. Dill says he thinks Thurston was found several hours after she was shot.

Football Game Stabbing

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) _ Authorities say two men have been arrested for an assault and stabbing before the Clemson-South Carolina football game.

SC Man Gets Life for Killing Girlfriend

RIDGELAND, S.C. (AP) _ A Jasper County man has been sentenced to life in prison after admitting he beat his girlfriend to death The Island Packet of Hilton Head reports (http://bit.ly/uwSHoi ) that 46-year-old Terry Swanger pleaded guilty Monday to murder, the same day jury selection in his trial was set to start.

SC Court: Injury Risk Comes with Contact Sports

South Carolina's Supreme Court has ruled people playing contact sports assume the risk they will be injured. The high court on Monday upheld a lower court's ruling that a man who was injured in a 2004 pickup softball game during a Boy Scouts camping trip in Sumter should have known he could be hurt.

USC To Play Nebraska In Capital One Bowl

South Carolina and Nebraska will play in the Capital One Bowl Jan. 2 at the Citrus Bowl in Orlando. Both teams accepted their bids Sunday. It will be the first meeting between the schools since 1987 and first-ever postseason matchup.

Deputies: Fight Over Money, Cause of Fatal Stabbing

Lexington County Sheriff’s Department deputies on Sunday, December 4 arrested a 42-year-old Leesville man on charges that the man fatally stabbed his nephew early Sunday at a home on Two Notch Road near Leesville, where the two men rented separate bedrooms.

Clemson Clocks Va Tech To Win ACC Championship

Tajh Boyd threw three touchdown passes and ran for another as Clemson (No. 20 BCS, No. 21 AP) routed No. 5 Virginia Tech 38-10 Saturday night to win its first Atlantic Coast Conference championship in 20 years.

End of the line for Cain? Announcement Saturday

ATLANTA (AP) — Rapidly becoming a mere footnote in the presidential race, Herman Cain sent mixed signals Friday on whether he would abandon his beleaguered White House bid on Saturday after a woman's allegation of an extramarital affair.

Body Found In Median Folo

HARLEYVILLE, S.C. (AP) _ Authorities say a man found dead in the median of Interstate 26 about 30 miles outside of Charleston was struck by a vehicle.

Judge orders SC Highway Patrol to release videos

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A judge has ruled that the South Carolina Highway Patrol has to release videotapes and other information from its arrests and traffic stops to the public even if a criminal case against a suspect is ongoing.

Dabo Continues to Jab Gamecocks and Spurrier

It was supposed to be a press conference addressing the ACC Championship game between Clemson and Virginia Tech. Well, it eventually was, but as most fans and media predicted, the first question to Tiger head coach Dabo Swinney was about Swinney's barking remarks he made towards the Gamecocks and Steve Spurrier on Thursday night.

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