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|By Steven Ardary and Dylan Leatherwood
More than 49,000 electric customers remained without power at 10:30 p.m. Friday, down from nearly 150,000 earlier in the afternoon as the Lowcountry felt the effects of the storm.
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Updated: Sep. 29, 2022 at 6:52 AM EDT
|By Lauren Quinlan
South Carolina energy providers are preparing for potential outages during Ian.
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Updated: Sep. 28, 2022 at 11:55 PM EDT
|By Dylan Leatherwood
Authorities say a teenager who went missing Wednesday night has been found safe.
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Updated: Sep. 28, 2022 at 10:17 PM EDT
|By Dylan Leatherwood
The South Carolina Highway Patrol is investigating a Wednesday crash that left one person dead.
Updated: Sep. 27, 2022 at 10:14 PM EDT
|By Blair Sabol
The wrongful death lawsuit for Mallory Beach will go to trial next January with all defendants present, a judge ruled Tuesday.
Updated: Sep. 27, 2022 at 9:11 AM EDT
|By Steven Ardary
A 16-year-old Bluffton teen is facing charges in connection to a Sunday night shooting that left another teen injured.
Updated: Sep. 26, 2022 at 12:22 PM EDT
|By Steven Ardary
The Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a Sunday night shooting that injured a teen.
Updated: Sep. 23, 2022 at 4:21 PM EDT
|By Brooke Butler
People on the island know to keep their eyes peeled for alligators when out and about, but raccoons aren’t typically top of mind.
Updated: Sep. 21, 2022 at 8:34 AM EDT
|By Steven Ardary
The Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office said two men were injured in a shooting on Hilton Head Island Tuesday night.
Updated: Sep. 20, 2022 at 6:39 AM EDT
|By Emily Johnson and Steven Ardary
This comes after two years of meeting to discuss opinions on the lack of affordable housing for low-income families.
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Updated: Sep. 16, 2022 at 2:30 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
A sheriff’s task force arrested four people at a home as part of an investigation into illegal narcotics Thursday.
Updated: Sep. 16, 2022 at 7:00 AM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
Beaufort County authorities are investigating what they are calling a “suspicious fire” that destroyed a mobile home in Burton Thursday night.
Updated: Sep. 14, 2022 at 4:25 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
Deputies say they have found the vehicle of a Hilton Head woman reported missing last month but say there was no sign of the 59-year-old.
Updated: Sep. 13, 2022 at 10:47 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a shooting that left one man injured on St. Helena Island.
Updated: Sep. 13, 2022 at 4:52 PM EDT
|By Live 5 Web Staff
The Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office said they have located a 43-year-old man who was reported missing earlier in the day.
Updated: Sep. 11, 2022 at 1:45 PM EDT
|By Dylan Leatherwood
At midnight a Tornado warning issued for Charleston County expired.
Updated: Sep. 11, 2022 at 1:44 PM EDT
|By Ann McGill
“They didn’t think we were coming. We sat there I think we arrived there like 8 in the morning on a Monday morning and by the time they figured out where they are going to house us, it was 4 o’clock that afternoon.”
Updated: Sep. 9, 2022 at 5:34 PM EDT
|By WTOC Staff
Whale Branch Early College High School’s football game was canceled Friday night after a loaded gun was found on school property.
Updated: Sep. 9, 2022 at 4:40 PM EDT
|By WTOC Staff
Sheriff’s Deputies say they’ve arrested a man after a domestic disturbance and shots fired call in Burton Friday morning.
Updated: Sep. 9, 2022 at 4:14 PM EDT
|By WTOC Staff
Beaufort County Deputies responded to a fire early Friday morning on Dinghy Lane in Palmetto Dunes on Hilton Head.
Updated: Sep. 9, 2022 at 8:03 AM EDT
|By Steven Ardary
Heavy rain and flooding are possible in parts of the Lowcountry on Friday.
Updated: Sep. 7, 2022 at 6:04 PM EDT
|By Dylan Leatherwood
A teen reported missing from the Burton area over the weekend has been found, deputies say.
Updated: Sep. 6, 2022 at 6:08 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
Police say they found the body of a 79-year-old Bluffton man who had been missing since late August.
Updated: Sep. 2, 2022 at 10:00 PM EDT
|By Tyler Manion
Every summer, Labor Day is the last big beach weekend of the year for tourists on Hilton Head Island and with those crowds come dollars for local businesses.
Updated: Sep. 2, 2022 at 1:54 PM EDT
|By WTOC Staff
A woman was struck by lightning Friday morning on Hilton Head Island.
Updated: Sep. 2, 2022 at 12:27 PM EDT
|By WTOC Staff and Emily Van de Riet
Three visitors to a state park in South Carolina claim they saw an animal they believe could be Bigfoot.
Updated: Sep. 1, 2022 at 5:18 PM EDT
|By WTOC Staff
A missing 3-year-old in Beaufort County has been found dead.
Updated: Sep. 1, 2022 at 1:59 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
Beaufort County deputies say an elderly man reported missing Tuesday afternoon has been found.
Updated: Aug. 31, 2022 at 10:49 PM EDT
|By Dylan Leatherwood
The Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office says a missing 3-year-old has been found Wednesday night.
Updated: Aug. 31, 2022 at 4:44 PM EDT
|By Ann McGill
Next spring, Trident Health will open its fourth freestanding ER, James Island Emergency, and a new 60-bed freestanding behavioral health hospital.
Updated: Aug. 30, 2022 at 11:05 AM EDT
|By Steven Ardary
The Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office said a community tip led to the arrest of a 20-year-old man wanted in a July shooting.
Updated: Aug. 28, 2022 at 5:31 AM EDT
|By Dylan Leatherwood
The Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office says they seized narcotics, weapons and cash after receiving a tip about drug activity at a car wash.
Updated: Aug. 26, 2022 at 3:06 PM EDT
|By Dylan Leatherwood
The Bluffton Police Department says they have exhausted all their resources in the ground search for a missing man.
Updated: Aug. 26, 2022 at 11:14 AM EDT
|By Steven Ardary
The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources will offer free boat inspections in an effort to promote waterway safety.
Updated: Aug. 25, 2022 at 8:30 PM EDT
|By Dylan Leatherwood
The Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office says a man turned himself in Wednesday morning in connection to a shooting at a fast food chain.
Updated: Aug. 24, 2022 at 6:52 PM EDT
|By Dylan Leatherwood
Investigators are still searching for a 79-year-old man last seen leaving an assisted living facility.
Updated: Aug. 24, 2022 at 4:56 AM EDT
|By Live 5 Web Staff
Deputies say Tribble was last seen leaving The Palmettos off Bluffton assisted living facility around 6 p.m. Tuesday.
Updated: Aug. 23, 2022 at 11:31 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
Beaufort County investigators say they are searching for the employee of a Hilton Head Island fast food restaurant accused of firing shots out of a drive-thru window.
Updated: Aug. 23, 2022 at 7:14 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
Lawyers for Parker’s Corporation are asking for a separate trial in a wrongful death lawsuit.
Updated: Aug. 19, 2022 at 11:53 AM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
Most Lowcountry students returned to school for the 2022-2023 school year this week.
Updated: Aug. 18, 2022 at 7:59 PM EDT
|By Dylan Leatherwood
The Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office says a man who was reported missing was found Thursday night.
Updated: Aug. 17, 2022 at 11:19 PM EDT
|By Dylan Leatherwood
A man is facing charges after deputies say a landscaping nursery in Beaufort was robbed back in February.
Updated: Aug. 17, 2022 at 5:19 PM EDT
|By Ann McGill
A virtual town hall designed to bring attention to the issue of high rates of prostate cancer in Black men takes place Thursday.
Updated: Aug. 16, 2022 at 11:17 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The South Carolina Highway Patrol says a motorcycle rider died Tuesday in a crash with a second vehicle.
Updated: Aug. 16, 2022 at 6:20 PM EDT
|By WTOC Staff and Tyler Manion
Bluffton Police Chief Stephenie Price is resigning from her position.
Updated: Aug. 15, 2022 at 6:29 PM EDT
|By Steven Ardary
The Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office says an investigation is underway after a deadly alligator attack in Beaufort County Monday morning.
Updated: Aug. 13, 2022 at 10:33 AM EDT
|By Dylan Leatherwood
The Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office says they are aware of a “hoax” going around on the social media platform Snapchat.
Updated: Aug. 10, 2022 at 1:29 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The family who filed a civil suit against former Lowcountry attorney Alex Murdaugh released a statement on Murdaugh’s request to postpone that suit in court.
Updated: Aug. 8, 2022 at 11:54 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
Beaufort County Council voted Monday night to let voters decide whether to approve a 2-year, one-percent sales tax on the November ballot.
Updated: Aug. 8, 2022 at 2:25 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
A man wanted in connection with a May shootout that left two injured turned himself in on Sunday, Beaufort County deputies say.