SUMTER, S.C. (AP) — Funeral services are planned later this week for two children killed in a Sumter apartment fire.

HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — Created just two years ago, the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office forensics lab is now part of the national Federal Bureau of Investigation database.

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Top-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska has withdrawn from the Family Circle Cup because of a back injury.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People wants to get involved in a federal lawsuit over South Carolina's voter ID law.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A 30-year-old South Carolina mother has begun a 35-year prison sentence for killing her two young sons.

ANDERSON, S.C. (AP) — Authorities say three people were killed in Anderson County in less than 12 hours..

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — They are rolling out the good times in the South Carolina Lowcountry at the annual Cajun Festival.

HARDEEVILLE, S.C. (AP) — Developers who hope to create as many as 4,000 jobs through an entertainment and resort complex off Hilton Head Island plan to meet with Gov. Nikki Haley to discuss the project.

ANDERSON, S.C. (AP) — An Anderson woman whose husband was killed in a terrorist attack in Germany is dealing with a family tragedy again as her 2-year-old son suffocated when a dresser fell on him.

STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi State has hired Clemson assistant Rick Ray to be its next men's basketball coach. The 40-year-old Ray has been the top assistant at Clemson for the past two seasons. Ray replaces Rick Stansbury, who announced his retirement in March after 14 seasons leading the program.

GAFFNEY, S.C. (AP) — Authorities say a man walking with a cane down the middle of the tracks in Gaffney has been hit and killed by an Amtrak train.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Winners of the 2011 South Carolina Associated Press Broadcasters Contest:

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley identifies herself with the tea party movement that helped propel her to the state's top office in 2010 in a book that promotes her story on the national stage.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A federal jury has ordered the owner of a Lee County landfill to pay $2.3 million to six residents who say their lives have been made miserable by the stench from the 140-foot tall piles of trash.