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A young girl from Mt. Pleasant is celebrating her 10th birthday after five months of cancer treatment at MUSC. Despite the celebration, this little girl and her family could be in for another challenge.More >>

The Dorchester County coroner says 13-year-old Joshua Jacob Mendoza who was found dead at a Summerville home died due to severe malnutrition.More >>

Columbia Police say a check of missing hospitality official Tom Sponseller's car shows nothing unusual and calls to his cell phone are not being returned. 
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The Carnival Fantasy took off from the Charleston port on Monday and some local restaurants are noticing business isn't booming when the cruise ship is in town. Days when cruise passengers get on and off the Carnival Fantasy are very busy down at the Port of Charleston.More >>

Funeral arrangements have been announced for Dara Lee Watson, the 30-year-old woman shot and killed by her fiance in early February.  Friends and family of Watson, a native of Watauga County, NC, will celebrate her life with a 2 p.m. service this Wednesday at Mount Vernon Baptist Church, located in the New River Township outside of Boone.More >>

The Charleston City Police is investigating a fatal auto-pedestrian accident that happened early Saturday morning on Sam Ritteberg near North Woodmere Drive in Charleston.More >>

Firefighters battled flames at a home on Terry Avenue in Summerville on Sunday afternoon. More >>

A recent high-speed chase involving Charleston County Sheriff Al Cannon and other agencies has gotten a lot of attention. But before an officer can even get behind the wheel of a patrol car, they have to learn how to drive defensively at an intense week long precision driving school.More >>

Vigils were held Friday night in two communities 300 miles apart for a Mt. Pleasant woman who has been missing for more than 10 days.More >>

A man was sentenced to 12 years in prison after pleading guilty to voluntary manslaughter in a shooting that took the life of a 35-year-old man. Court records state that Christopher Gadsden pleaded guilty on Tuesday in connection to the shooting death of Arthur Singleton on May 25, 2010.More >>

The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Dallas, homeported in Charleston, seized about 4,000 pounds of cocaine and 940 pounds of marijuana during two separate cases while patrolling the Caribbean Sea.More >>

A team of divers waded through murky waters in people's back yards Thursday, searching for the body of missing Mt. Pleasant woman Dara Watson. While dive teams didn't find Watson, they didn't come up empty handed. Watson's cell phone was found in a retention pond near her home in the Rivertowne subdivision.More >>

Six months after staying tight lipped about who they were investigating as a person of interest in the disappearance of Brittanee Drexel, investigators in Myrtle Beach are releasing names.More >>

A monster sized catfish tipping the scales at 136 pounds surpasses a 21-year-old record of 109 pounds, but officials say the fish is not a state record due to the way it was caught. Officials with theMore >>

The Richland County Sheriff's Department says they arrested a North Charleston man Tuesday on charges that he sexually assaulted two women in the 1980s.More >>

Deputies say they discovered a stolen AK-47, handguns and narcotics at a drug dealer's home in Orangeburg. The Orangeburg County Sheriff's Office responded to the area of Carver School Road and Eaglewood Drive in Cope after a concerned citizen heard gunshots.More >>

It looks like proponents of extending the Charleston City Marina docks further into their Ashley River may get their way.  The Department of Health and Environmental Control upheld a permit to reconfigure the marina during a meeting on Thursday, DHEC spokesman Adam Myrick said.More >>

After spending two years searching, Joe Swinton's family says they finally have some closure. The Berkeley County Coroner's Office identified the remains found in St. Stephen last month as those of 47-year-old Swinton. He was reported missing on Jan. 19, 2010.More >>

Bost Distributing Company doing business as Harold Food Company, a Bear Creek, N.C. establishment, is recalling approximately 1,200 pounds of chicken salad products.More >>

Several buildings are still shut down for contamination following a chemical explosion at South Carolina State university in Orangeburg. Fire officials from the Orangeburg Department of Public Safety were called to the university around 4 p.m. after the explosion, which happened during a chemistry class.More >>

Officials in North Charleston are fighting to overturn two OSHA citations issued to the North Charleston Fire Department after three firefighters were injured during a July 2010 fire.More >>

The Transportation Security Administration will now begin using body scanning machines at Charleston International Airport.More >>

Like many fathers Theodore Washington wants to do whatever he can to help his children. His daughter 47-year-old Chantay Evans-Glisson was diagnosed with a life threatening disease eight years ago and Washington can't do anything to stop the disease progression.More >>

Authorities with the Berkeley County Sheriff's Office say they have fired one employee, demoted another and suspended two after an inmate escaped the Hill Finlkea Detention Center last month.More >>

Mount Pleasant's mayor wants to change his town's form of government to a strong mayoral system. The proposal was introduced at a meeting Monday morning by Mayor Billy Swails. Currently, the town has a weak mayor-strong council format.More >>