COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) _ The board overseeing South Carolina's environmental agency has approved a compromise with the Army Corps of Engineers over a permit to dredge the Savannah River. The agency's board voted unanimously Thursday to accept the agreement, putting Georgia and the federal government a step closer to deepening 35 miles between the Atlantic Ocean and the port of Savannah, Ga.
MARION, S.C. (AP) _ Authorities say a teen has been charged with murder after he killed a 66-year-old Marion man in his home with an ice pick in a robbery that got him $14. Marion County Sheriff Mark Richardson said 18-year-old Shaquille Davis was arrested Wednesday in the Sept. 21 death of Walter Prince.
The Fifth Judicial Circuit Solicitor's Worthless Check Program is a free service to any merchant, business or individual who has received a worthless check.
ORANGEBURG, S.C. (AP) — A 29-year-old Harleyville man has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for the fatal shooting of a security guard who had kicked him out of an Orangeburg County nightclub moments earlier.
The University of South Carolina has suspended two fraternities, although the school isn't saying much more than that.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A public safety officer at the South Carolina Department of Mental Health has been charged with carrying on an inappropriate relationship with a patient being treated as a sexual predator.
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The Citadel says it will honor requests from law enforcement and not release information about a 2002 incident at its summer camp allegedly involving a Charleston-area educator and coach accused of molesting five boys.
CAYCE, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina Ag Council is holding an annual holiday fair featuring several kinds of locally produced goodies.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — More of South Carolina's schools and school districts reached "excellent" status on their 2011 state report cards, as areas of high poverty smashed stereotypes to claim their spot among the state's best.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A new report says South Carolina's spending to treat mental illness has been cut more drastically than in any other state over the past several years.
SHAW AIR FORCE BASE, S.C. (AP) — The Third Army's Special Troops Battalion is holding a change of command ceremony to welcome its newest leader at Shaw Air Force Base.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The University of South Carolina is holding the first of several public forums on the nation's debt crisis.
Toyota is recalling 420-thousand vehicles in the U-S, because of a potential problem with the power steering.
Kershaw County Sheriff's are investigating an apparent murder-suicide. Authorities say a family member contacted them after receiving a letter from the alleged shooter detailing his plans to take his life and that of his estranged wife.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) _ An Italian citizen charged in a cocaine case that brought down a South Carolina state treasurer has been sentenced to just over two years in federal prison. A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced 58-year-old Pasquale Pellicoro during a hearing on Columbia. Pellicoro could have received as much as 20 years in prison and faced $1 million in fines.
ANDERSON, S.C. (AP) — Three years after vandals destroyed its predecessor, the "Spirit of the American Doughboy" is back in Anderson.
AIKEN, S.C. (AP) — Authorities say they aren't charging the guardian of a 10-year-old Aiken trick-or-treater who pulled a 9-mm handgun on a woman who joked she'd steal his candy on Halloween.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) _ People boating and fishing along the South Carolina coast should be on the lookout for company. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Fisheries Service says calving season has begun for the North Atlantic right while. That means the endangered creatures are making their way south from New England to the warm waters off South Carolina, Georgia and Florida.
In a closely watched election between three of Irmo's five current town council members, Hardy King wins, replacing Mayor John Gibbons.
Voters went to the polls Tuesday for local elections in eight communities in the midlands. In Irmo and West Columbia, voters have chosen new mayors.
South Carolina regulators will discuss the proposed merger of Duke Energy and Progress Energy at a hearing next month.
It sounds to good to be true and Kershaw county sheriff's say that's exactly what it is. A check is being sent to area residents congratulating them on a sweepstakes win, officials say is designed only for them to lose.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Riverbanks Zoo and Garden is celebrating a bequest of $863,000, the single largest gift in its 37-year history.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Sixteen Latin American and Caribbean nations have asked to join the U.S. Department of Justice's lawsuit against South Carolina's new illegal immigration law.
SUMTER, S.C. (AP) _ A Richland County deputy who was not charged in a fatal wreck this summer was at fault in four other wrecks while working as a Sumter County deputy a decade ago.
