Edisto Island News

Surfersvillage Global Surf News , 28 May, 2012 : - - Tropical Storm Beryl made landfall near Jacksonville Beach, Florida at 00h10 EDT Monday.

Carson, left, Alyne, Katelin and John walk along the beach at Edisto Island, SC at sunset in the middle of the summer.

Fifteen percent of South Carolina residents have below-basic literacy skills. This means they can't read a newspaper story, fill out a job application or follow the directions on a medicine label.

An Edisto Island man awoke to find a stranger with a machete in his Clark Road home early Wednesday morning, and then held the man at shotgun-point until police arrived, a Charleston County Sheriff's Office report said.