Eastover News

A helicopter unit from the S.C. National Guard returned home Thursday to hugs, cheers and backslaps after a historic, yearlong mission to Afghanistan.

A helicopter unit from the S.C. National Guard returned home Thursday to hugs, cheers and backslaps after a historic, yearlong mission to Afghanistan.

Landing the Air Force's next-generation fighter - the F-35- likely will guarantee a long future for two Midlands bases and ensure thousands of jobs will stay in the area, military supporters say.

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

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

A Richland County man who shot and killed a man in a 2004 incident involving cats has been found not guilty of murder in a second trial.

Thoughts of returning home to loved ones and Saturdays filled with college football are on the minds of some of the 60 S.C. National Guard soldiers serving in an Army helicopter unit in Afghanistan.

Every day, thousands of Afghan men and hundreds of trucks and cars stop at the gates of this sprawling base in northeastern Afghanistan.

The retrial for a man convicted of killing an off-duty Beaufort County sheriff's deputy in 2004 during a disagreement over a dead cat is scheduled to begin today in Columbia.

A 40-year-old Orangeburg man died after being thrown from a dump truck that overturned Monday morning near Eastover.

Monday, October 12, 2009 at 9:52 p.m. An accident happened just before noon in Eastover on Monday.A One person is dead, another hurt.A Lance Corporal Josef Robinson says a garage truck flipped over on Watermelon Hill Road in Eastover.A That's about 20 miles outside Columbia.A Neighbors say the terrible scene turned a normally quiet area upside ...

Monday, October 12, 2009 at 12:28 p.m. According to officials, EMS is on the scene of a collision at Old Eastover and Watermelon Hill Rd.

Beaufort County and municipal officials have marked the start of construction of a $34.6 million span across the Beaufort River on S.C. 802, parallel to the J.E. McTeer Bridge.

Hanging out upside down over Lake Murray in the cockpit of a stunt plane, I could feel the weight of my entire body pressing into the safety harness.

Amid questions about arsenic pollution at the Wateree River, a judge refused Wednesday to dismiss a legal case against SCE&G and the Department of Health and Environmental Control over leaks from the utility's lower Richland power station.

Six former candidates in Cheser County elections owe the State Ethics Commission a combined $4,600 in penalties for filing forms late and are listed on a "Debtor's List," prepared by the commission.

The man who the South Carolina Ethics Commission says owes more than $500,000 to the state is speaking out.

South Carolina's environmental and health chief spoke Wednesday against putting the governor in control of his agency, saying it would make the department more vulnerable to political pressure.

South Carolina polticians, candidates and lobbyists -- including the state's own treasurer -- owe a combined total of more than $2.5 million to the state ethics commission, the agency said Tuesday.

Troopers with the South Carolina Highway Patrol responded to an accident at McCords Ferry and Bynum Roads in Eastover after 11 a.m. Monday.