Haley picks 34-year-old attorney to lead LLR
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Gov. Nikki Haley has chosen a 34-year-old attorney to lead South Carolina's labor and business licensing agency.
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Chairman of SC House Judiciary Committee retiring
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The longtime chairman of the South Carolina Judiciary Committee says he won't seek another term.
Jobs lost in Columbia police missing exec probe
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Columbia Police Chief Randy Scott is making changes in his department as he reviews why it took officers 10 days to find the body of a missing lobbyist who killed himself in the parking garage of his office building and left a suicide note in his desk.
Cops: Man arrested for exposing self at car wash
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Police say they are trying to figure out if a man arrested without pants after grabbing a woman in a car wash is connected to a string of indecent exposure cases in an upscale Columbia neighborhood.
SC State trustees meet behind closed doors
ORANGEBURG, S.C. (AP) — Trustees at South Carolina State University have met for six hours behind closed doors the day after the school's Faculty Senate issued a statement demanding the removal of the university president.
Faith leaders discussing how to respond to suicide
WEST COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Faith leaders are scheduled to meet in West Columbia to discuss how to properly respond after someone commits suicide.
After 3 decades on SC death row, man might go free
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A mentally disabled man who spent nearly 30 years on South Carolina's death row is getting a bail hearing because of a single strand of hair.
Second Fox Attack
A second fox attacks a person in as many weeks. Now the Department of Health and Environmental control is asking you to be on guard of suspicious wild animals.
SC Senate panel advances inmate sex surgery bill
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A bill that would prohibit state money from being used for sex change surgeries for prison inmates is one step closer to becoming law.
Legislature overrides Haley's veto on dredging
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina legislators have easily overridden Gov. Nikki Haley's veto of a bill designed to boost their efforts to invalidate a permit allowing Georgia to expand its Savannah port.
Saving a loved one from suicide
Suicide is claiming lives in the United States at a rate of more than one hundred per day.
Dancing for Alzheimer's Awareness in the Midlands
For the first time on a statewide level, the South Carolina Alzheimer's Association brings together health care professionals, caregivers and others to educate themselves on tackling a disease that impacts 80,000 South Carolinians...with a little dancing in between.
Renowned Charleston eatery sued for wrongful death
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A renowned Charleston restaurant has been named as a defendant in a wrongful death case.
Judge refuses to release tape in Aiken cop's death
AIKEN, S.C. (AP) — A judge has refused to release the video of a traffic stop that led to the shooting death of an Aiken police officer in December.
SC professors recognized for excellence
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Professors from The Citadel and the University of South Carolina Sumter are being recognized for excellence in teaching and student advising.
Spartanburg sheriff releases new shooting sketch
SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) — Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright has released a new sketch of a person of interest in the 2003 shooting deaths of four people at a motorcycle shop.
Judge Blocks Release of Dash Cam Video: Officer Shooting
AIKEN, S.C. (AP)-- A judge has refused to release the video of a traffic stop that led to the shooting death of an Aiken police officer in December. Circuit Judge Jack Early ruled Thursday after a two-minute hearing that allowing…
Deputy dragged more than one hundred feet
A narcotics officer with the Kershaw County Sheriff's Office is recovering today after he was dragged by a pick-up truck for more than one hundred feet.
Police Chief: 'This isn't a CSI TV show'
Columbia Police Chief Randy Scott says people are rushing to judgment regarding his department's handling of a missing persons investigation-turned-apparent suicide.
SC man accused of trying to take sheriff's trailer
GAFFNEY, S.C. (AP) — It's probably not a good idea to try to steal a trailer from the sheriff's backyard. It probably doesn't help to tell him you are taking the trailer for someone who bought it.
