Dorchester News

Crime Blotter a oeI Wanted To Resta A deputy was informed of a couple in a car involved in a physical altercation in the parking lot of northbound I-95 rest area.

S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford will find a receptive audience of state lawmakers when a resolution calling for his impeachment is heard before a House subcommittee on Tuesday afternoon, sources tell FITS.

There's nothing better than the pine scent of a live Christmas tree filling the house during the holiday season, but once the holidays are over and the tree dies, something has to be done with it.

South Carolina is renovating a park on the site of one of one of the state's earliest towns.

It's a nightmare for parents: Someone is hurting their autistic child, but the child doesn't have the skills to say so.

The district will make many improvements to schools around the county. Occupancy sensors will be installed in many classrooms.

Dorchester District two officials are meeting Thursday night to decide the fate of four Knightsville Elementary educators.

It was not an everyday sight. Four Knightsville Elementary School educators in orange jail garb, handcuffs and leg irons stood before a judge Wednesday concerning allegations that a teaching assistant abused autistic students and that a teacher and administrators failed to report it.

The date of the craft fair and auction at the Faith Sellers Senior Center was listed incorrectly in Wednesdaya s edition.

A joint House/Senate panel is accepting notice from people interested in applying for a seat on the S.C. Department of Transportation Commission.

According to the State Comptroller General's Office, 15 local governments have begun posting their spending online for public viewing.

News Summerville is the most active location within the Charleston real estate market based on the number of transactions year to date.

Officials say the mid-year cut may mean teacher furloughs as soon as next year. "How much money?" Mrs.

The Berkeley-Charleston-Dorchester Council of Governments has launched a free Internet-based rideshare matching service for commuters.

Charleston, SC - The S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control has updated its Web site with dates, times and locations for H1N1 flu vaccine clinics in the following counties: Berkeley, Charleston and Dorchester.

One county's trash is becoming another county's problem. Charleston County considering a deal to send 250 tons of trash a day to a private landfill in Dorchester.

Willie Smalls stacks wood behind his family's 'tent' for the St. Paul Camp Meeting.

South Carolina's passing rate for students seeking a high school equivalency diploma has reached an all-time high of 73 percent, matching for the first time the national average for GED success, state education officials announced Thursday.

Legal action has been taken against the Dorchester School District 2 over recently-passed legislation that allows the school district to charge developers $2,500 on new homes to pay for the construction of new schools.

While the percent of all South Carolinians without health insurance was about 17% in 2008, according to census estimates released this week, that number was a higher 23% for working-age residents of the state.