NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Mayors of three Lowcountry communities are scheduled to announce year-round, regional swimming programs in the Charleston area.

GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — Two Greenville County residents have been arrested and charged with illegal neglect of a child after authorities found eight poisonous snakes in their home.

SUMTER, S.C. (AP) — An employee at a salon in Sumter has been arrested and accused of photographing women at the tanning beds.

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — In a somber, reflective ceremony, dozens of descendants of Southern troops gathered on the Battery in Charleston to mark Confederate Memorial Day in the state where the Civil War began.

BLUFFTON, S.C. (AP) — The police chief in Bluffton says they don't teach goat wrangling at the police academy.

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — In a somber, reflective ceremony, dozens of descendants of Southern troops gathered on the Battery in Charleston to mark Confederate Memorial Day in the state where the Civil War began.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A grand jury has indicted the mother of a missing South Carolina toddler in connection with his disappearance.

NORTH CHARLESON, S.C. (AP) — Three North Charleston residents are being honored by the city fire department for saving people's lives.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Columbia Mayor Steve Benjamin and federal officials are accused in a lawsuit of conspiring to fire a local Housing and Urban Development official who alleged the city was misusing federal funds for the city's low-income residents.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The University of South Carolina has purchased two buildings and more than six acres of land from from South Carolina ETV.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A high-ranking Columbia police officer fired over the handling of the investigation into a missing state lobbyist says she was discriminated against because she is a woman.