GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — An assistant principal at a Greenville County elementary school has been arrested charges of having sex with a student 25 years ago.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Police in South Carolina can now charge people with a felony for having synthetic marijuana or psychoactive drugs marketed as "bath salts."

SENECA, S.C. (AP) — Sheriff's deputies in Oconee and Pickens counties are investigating the death of a 19-year-old Pickens man whose body was found at a Lake Hartwell boat ramp.

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A company that makes human resources software for service industry businesses plans to create almost 270 new jobs.

GEORGETOWN, S.C. (AP) — The State Law Enforcement Division is helping Georgetown fire officials investigate the cause of a fire that destroyed a church over the weekend.

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A handful of survivors of the World War II Battle of Leyte Gulf, considered the largest naval battle in American history, have gathered on the South Carolina coast for a reunion.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina's Republican Party said in a court filing that the state Supreme Court should dismiss a challenge to its presidential primary brought by counties in a dispute over reimbursements.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The director of South Carolina's Medicaid agency wants to make it easier for low-income children who already qualify for health care coverage to enroll.

BEAUFORT, S.C. (AP) — Utilities are working to get rid of overhead power lines in Beaufort and the local telephone and cables companies will have to follow suit.

BEAUFORT, S.C. (AP) — Beaufort Police say five people were robbed at gunpoint while they fished from a railroad trestle over the weekend.

GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — Former Easley state Sen. Nell Whitely Smith has died at age 81.

ANDERSON, S.C. (AP) — Anderson County officials say a jail inmate helped an animal shelter employee who was being attacked by a dog.

GEORGETOWN, S.C. (AP) — A fire has destroyed a church in Georgetown.