COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Heat advisories have been issued for the South Carolina coast and midlands and Pee Dee as temperatures are expected to hover around 100 degrees.

PORT ROYAL, S.C. (AP) — Town leaders in Port Royal want more access to a site on the South Carolina coast dating back almost three centuries.

RIDGEVILLE, S.C. (AP) — A small plane had to make an emergency landing on the railroad tracks in the middle of a small South Carolina town.

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) — The body of a missing swimmer has washed ashore in Myrtle Beach.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina's highest court has again invalidated the Town of James Island's attempt to incorporate into its own municipality.

HARTSVILLE, S.C. (AP) — The Governor's School for Science & Mathematics is welcoming students from around the state for a summer science program.

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Charleston County authorities say a teenager is charged with murder in the shooting death of an 18-year-old.

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) — Former NFL player Brandon Lee Frye has been charged with drunken driving in South Carolina.

GEORGETOWN, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina troopers say a 24-year-old man was struck and killed near Georgetown while walking on U.S. 17.

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Charleston County officials will consider lowering property taxes on luxury yachts as a way to encourage more owners to pay.

WEST COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Officials with a toilet maker are stopping in South Carolina to talk about the importance of water conservation.

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Charleston is pausing to remember the deaths of nine firefighters who perished four years ago fighting a furniture store fire.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The defending champion South Carolina Gamecocks open their bid for another College World Series title by taking on Texas A&M tonight. Yesterday, pitcher Michael Roth was honored with the NCAA Division One Men's Baseball Championship Elite 88 award.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Thousands of Carolinas homes and businesses are out of power as severe storms roll over the mountains and down the foothills, knocking down trees and power lines.

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Fayetteville has been declared an All-America City for the third time.

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Three sea turtles are back in the Atlantic Ocean after being treated at the South Carolina Aquarium's turtle hospital.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Two leaders of South Carolina's Medicaid agency took jobs with a company overpaid by $10 million months before the problem was discovered.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Gov. Nikki Haley has signed into law a bill designed to stop a South Carolina town from using a traffic camera to send speeders a ticket in the mail.