North Charleston News

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North Charleston has named a new fire chief. Assistant Fire Chief Gregory A. Bulanow will take the helm Feb.

The felony tax evasion trial of the founder of a Christian mission in North Charleston kicked off Monday with a state prosecutor charging that hundreds of thousands of dollars in income never was reported.

Firefighters used ladders to rescue a man from a third-story apartment unit near the Whitehall subdivision early this morning, the North Charleston Fire Department said.

It could be one of the nation's oldest cold case files: What happened to eight Confederate sailors aboard the H.L. Hunley after it became the first submarine in history to sink an enemy warship? Their ...

On this New Year's Eve, the North Charleston Fire Department is encouraging the public to handle fireworks safely during their celebrations by obeying local laws and following common sense safety measures.

Arson has been ruled the cause of a Thursday night fire that destroyed AccuDiagnostics, a drug-testing laboratory in the Mall Drive Business Park in North Charleston.

Harley Thompson pictured himself and his wife moving to a clean, safe neighborhood, far from the stench and ash of the county's trash incinerator.

Authorities say a fire at a North Charleston laboratory that performs drug tests was intentionally set.

A man who surrendered to police after a standoff in North Charleston on Monday is one of three people charged with robbing a West Ashley bank the same morning, police said.

Police Chief Jon Zumalt's North Charleston department handled 14 homicides in 2008.

Authorities think that the same man who held up a North Charleston bank on Christmas Eve has struck again in the Midlands.

Police arrested three suspects within hours of a bank robbery. They say the three men robbed the Wachovia Bank at 828 Orleans Road at about 11:00 a.m. Monday.

An armed bank robbery, a standoff and a community prayer vigil all took place Monday, ending with a father of four behind bars.

Tawanna Mitchell prays with family outside her apartment on Evergreen Street in West Ashley after a fire that started in the kitchen left her and her four children homeless on Christmas Eve.

A fatal shooting on Christmas morning occurred after a couple had returned from a night club in North Charleston and started arguing, according to police documents.

Dorchester County sheriff's deputies continued to search for a man wanted in connection with a fatal shooting outside a bar on Ashley Phosphate Road over the weekend.

North Charleston police identified a 44-year-old man as a suspect in the Christmas Eve robbery of First Citizens Bank on University Boulevard.

It happened just after four yesterday afternoon at the intersection of County Line Road and Davidson Road.

A woman remained hospitalized two days after police said she was accidentally shot by her son while in a car.