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NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — A 46-year-old North Charleston man is behind bars on a pair of felony child…
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — Westbound I-526 at the Don Holt Bridge in North Charleston, S.C., was shut …
CHARLESTON, S.C. — A man on foot died Thursday night after a vehicle heading south on Savannah Highw…
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — Drivers heading through the Palmetto Commerce area of North Charleston were…
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Side-by-side utility terrain vehicles will be allowed on some South Carolina public…
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Firefighters in Charleston, S.C., knocked down a fire at an apartment complex alo…
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Apartment Fire Briefly Shuts Ashley River Road in Charleston
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Firefighters in Charleston, S.C., knocked down a fire at an apartment complex along Ashley River Road on Tuesday afternoon, and the blaze left no one…
Charleston Woman Drowned in Kiawah Island Beach Club Pool
KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. — Detectives with the Charleston County Sheriff's Office are looking into the death of a Charleston woman who was found in a swimming pool early…
France Puts 70,000 Police on Streets as Louvre Closes
PARIS — France sent roughly 70,000 police and security officers into its cities Saturday for a fresh round of nationwide protests, a week after demonstrations over the cost…
Flash Flood Sends Mud Past Golf Course, Swamps Homes
HURRICANE, Utah — Southwest Utah’s city of Hurricane is under a local emergency after a burst of heavy rain Thursday sent a wall of muddy water down Gould…
Magnitude 7 Earthquake in Tibet Kills 16, Injures 76
NAGQU, Tibet — A powerful magnitude 7.0 earthquake rocked a remote, high-altitude stretch of China's Tibet region late Thursday, leaving 16 people dead and 76 others hurt, local…
Deadly Fire at Canadian Army Base Began
WAINWRIGHT, Alberta — The fire that killed four Canadian soldiers and hurt 39 more at an Alberta army base last week started on an automatic grenade launcher range…
Truck Drives Onto Youth Soccer Field in Wichita, Killing 2
WICHITA, Kan. — A pickup truck rolled onto a field during a youth soccer game at the Stryker Soccer Complex on Saturday afternoon, leaving a man, 35, and…
SC Probation Agency Adds Device-Sniffing K9s
COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina’s probation and parole agency now has two four-legged agents whose job is to find the electronics sex offenders try to hide. Hunter and…
DSS Opens Statewide Review of Justine May Case
COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina Department of Social Services said Friday it will examine what happened in the Justine May case under the state’s child-fatality review statutes,…
Coastal Flood Advisory Covers Sunday Tide
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Saltwater flooding around high tide kept a coastal flood advisory over Charleston County into Sunday morning, NWS said. The advisory was refreshed at 7:18 a.m.…
Category 4 Hurricane Simon hugs Mexico coast with flood threat
Hurricane Simon sat just off Mexico’s Pacific coast Sunday morning as an extremely dangerous Category 4, with forecasters expecting it to approach or push slightly inland over west-central…
Charleston, S.C.: Flooding closes 21 streets Saturday
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Heavy rain a and nearly 7.7-foot high tide flooded Charleston streets Saturday morning, forcing 21 road closures by 11 a.m. as crews and first responders…
