MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney says America must rebuild its national defense system. He's proposing adding 100,000 active duty troops to the military and taking better care of the country's veterans.
WAGENER, S.C. (AP) _ Authorities say the police chief in Salley rushed to a car crash outside his jurisdiction after finding out his daughter might be involved. Investigators told The Aiken Standard that 20-year-old Lisa Bledsoe died in the fiery wreck after losing control on a rural road near Wagener around 5:50 p.m. Wednesday and smashing into a tree.
GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — A 43-year-old Greer man has died from injuries suffered in a far fight nearly two months ago.
EASLEY, S.C. (AP) — A male nurse at an Easley hospital has been charged with assault and battery after he was accused of inappropriately touching a woman patient in the emergency room.
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) — Prosecutors in Horry County say it will be sometime next year before a man is re-tried in the 2002 shooting death of a Myrtle Beach police officer.
BEAUFORT, S.C. (AP) — Two boys from the Beaufort area are charged with assault and battery for assaulting an 11-year-old girl on a school bus.
MONCKS CORNER, S.C. (AP) — A $500 million plant expansion that will boost DuPont's production of Kevlar has been dedicated in Moncks Corner.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina's education chief and the governor's husband read separately to students as part of a campaign highlighting the importance of early literacy.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Continental Tire is expected to announce plans for a plant in South Carolina that could bring as many as 1,700 jobs.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A Duke Energy vice president is coming to the University of South Carolina to talk about modernizing the country's electric power grid.
SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) — A 25-year-old man has been charged with murder in a shooting during a burglary at a Boiling Springs house that left a teen dead and two others injured.
UNION, S.C. (AP) — Fire has destroyed a bridal shop in Union County, and with it, the wedding plans of soon-to-be brides.
MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is bringing his campaign back to South Carolina.
Lexington county schools are overcrowded, the high school alone is trying to handle more than 3 thousand students. School officials hope the opening of two new schools will change that, and parents want to know where the lines will be drawn.
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley along with Continental Tire Executives and Sumter Council members made a major economic announcement in Sumter County today.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The University of South Carolina says it has the OK to open its medical school in Greenville next year.
FLORENCE, S.C. (AP) — An 18-year-old Florence man has been arrested in the shooting death of a teen last month.
ORANGEBURG, S.C. (AP) — A warehouse company and its trucking affiliate are investing $10 million in Orangeburg and creating 100 jobs within five years.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley plans a major economic development announcement in Sumter County nearly a week after a county official said Continental Tire will build a plant there.
GAFFNEY, S.C. (AP) — A former Cherokee County deputy has been arrested after the State Law Enforcement Division says the officer had sex with an informant he was working with.
