Bluffton News

A Palmetto Bluff couple whose partially built house was allegedly burned by a security guard who also worked as a Lady's Island firefighter still awaits the outcome of a lawsuit seeking $1 million in damages from the security company that hired him.

A man wanted in a string of thefts at a Bluffton Laundromat was arrested Monday, according to a Beaufort County Sheriff's Office news release.

A former town employee apparently has drawn the most votes in a three-way race for two Bluffton Town Council seats, ousting one incumbent.

A Bluffton committee had the unpleasant chore Monday of paring $65,000 in requests to the only $37,252 generated by bed taxes.

Two former Hardeeville police officers pleaded guilty today to charges they illegally pocketed money during traffic stops, charges that stem from an investigation by the S.C. Law Enforcement Division.

One of the suspects charged in the brutal attack on two men as they grilled steaks in a Bluffton backyard a year ago Friday is expected to go to trial the week of Nov.

Three candidates will run Tuesday for two seats on the Bluffton Town Council. Incumbents Oliver Brown, 56, and Charlie Wetmore, 43, seek re-election. Former town employee Mike Raymond, 58, also is vying for a seat.

The Bluffton Historical Preservation Society will sponsor an All Saints Eve Cemetery Clean Up from 10 a.m. to noon today in the Bluffton Cemetery off May River Road.

A 29-year-old Bluffton man was arrested October 26 in an internet predator sting, according to the attorney general's office.

Seeing the road in many parts of Bluffton should be a little easier. Eight of 11 intersections along U.S. 278, moving east from Buckwalter Parkway, are getting new streetlights to improve traffic safety.

A second suspect was arrested Thursday in connection with a shooting on Buck Island Road late Oct.

A man has been cleared in the 2004 shooting death of an off-duty South Carolina sheriff's deputy.

The husband of a Bluffton woman accused of sexually assaulting a boy more than 27 years her junior told jurors Tuesday he and his wife had been drinking the night of the alleged incident but that he noticed nothing out of the ordinary that evening or the next morning.

AllCare Tree Surgery is scheduled to remove six large, hazardous trees in Bluffton's DuBois Park.

A 16-year-old was shot in the head and remained in critical condition Sunday after a shooting early Saturday on Buck Island Road that also injured two other teenagers, according to a Bluffton Police Department news release.

For the fourth time in about five years, a Bluffton couple's six-foot-tall, dolphin-shaped mailbox -- a veritable landmark on All Joy Road -- has disappeared.

Every Saturday night Jock's Sports Bar and Grill in Bluffton becomes "Club Jock's". Dj Tanz from Atlanta plays all request and your favorite dance music.

Someone doesn't like a South Carolina couple's dolphin-shaped mailbox. The Island Packet of Hilton Head reported the six-foot-tall mailbox in Bluffton has been hit by vandals a fourth time in the last few years.

An arrest has been made in a burglary and assault case in Bluffton, S.C. 23-year old Kevin Gillespie is in jail accused of breaking into a Westbury Park apartment Tuesday night and assaulting a 26-year old woman who lives there.

A man is being sought for robbing a Bluffton convenience store with a plastic gun.