FLORENCE, S.C. (AP) _ A teenager has been sentenced to life in prison after a jury found him guilty of killing a Florence pawn shop employee during a robbery. The Morning News of Florence (http://bit.ly/HLzvW5 ) reports jurors took just over two hours Wednesday to find 18-year-old Tavario Brunson guilty of murder.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) _ The mother of a Chesterfield man hopes a coroner' inquest will answer questions she has about her son's death.
A two-year, $3.6 million debt that consumed the Midlands' public transit system, CMRTA, and threatened to cancel bus service altogether, is no longer an issue, according to officials. That's good news to riders who say they depend on the bus system daily.
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) — A Myrtle Beach woman has died more than a month after she was shot outside a nightclub.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Ross Stores Inc. is planning to bring 600 jobs to York County with a new distribution and warehouse facility.
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Museums in Charleston and Savannah, Ga., have joined the Google Art Project — the only Southern art museums that are part of the virtual art gallery on the Internet.
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The National Weather Service has issued frost advisories and freeze watches for much of South Carolina as colder area from Canada moves into the state.
A 17 year-old Pelion woman is in custody, accused of killing a 2 year-old child.
SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) — A former Woodruff city employee has pleaded guilty to murder and attempted murder.
BEAUFORT, S.C. (AP) — Sheriff's deputies are investigating the shooting death of a man about 10 miles northwest of Beaufort.
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — The new Boeing 787 jetliner will fly over the Harbour Town golf course on Hilton Head Island on Friday during the second round of the RBC Heritage golf tournament.
The National Weather Service has issued frost advisories and freeze watches for much of South Carolina as colder area from Canada moves into the state.
Indonesia has issued a fresh tsunami warning after an aftershock with a preliminary magnitude of 8.2 shook its western coast.
Fort Jackson is holding an event to help military people with concerns about their mortgages or are moving because of a military transfer.
Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is visiting Charleston to speak to cadets at The Citadel.
Artworks by University of South Carolina students and faculty are going to the highest bidders during the school's 57th annual auction.
South Carolina Senate Democrats want to remove the secrecy that surrounds investigations by the House and Senate ethics committees.
SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) — Spartanburg County authorities say they will not charge a convicted felon who shot and killed two men he said were trying to rob his apartment.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The Senate's tweaks to the House spending plan for 2012-13 may include higher raises for state workers and sending more money to local governments.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Authorities have arrested the mayor of Norway, saying he didn't have the authority to be a police officer when he pulled over a state trooper who had just given him a ticket.
