LAKE WYLIE, S.C. (AP) — A York County middle school student is being charged with assault and battery after three students say he spanked them.

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A judge has ruled that 10 Occupy Charleston protesters arrested last week can return to Marion Square while they await trial.

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) — Boeing plans to conduct some test flights of its new 787 jetliner at the Myrtle Beach International Airport next week.

AIKEN, S.C. (AP) — Layoffs are coming next week at the Savannah River Site near Aiken.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A prosecutor wants to keep the public from seeing the motions and other information in the file of a man charged with murder and rape in the deaths of a Richland County mother and daughter four years ago.

SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) — A Spartanburg County man has been sentenced to life in prison for killing his girlfriend and leaving her body in a shallow grave.

GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — The Milliken Foundation is donating $1 million to Furman University to support the school's science center.

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The oldest library in the South is restoring thousands of books, some of them even older than the library itself.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A 19-year-old black student at the University of South Carolina Beaufort is thinking about returning a Confederate flag to his dorm room window because he wants people to thoughtfully consider issues of race and not just knee-jerk reactions to such symbols.

CONWAY, S.C. (AP) — Horry County police say they have charged a man with murder in the shooting of a teen in a Conway mobile home last month.

HARLEYVILLE, S.C. (AP) — Crews mowing the grass in the median on Interstate 26 outside of Charleston have found a body.

GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — Authorities say a 27-year-old Greenville man is accused of killing a man whose body was found last week between two houses.