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A Santee business is wrapped up in a federal lawsuit settlement. Some people reported the Gilmore Tax Service charged hundreds of people to file forms.

A sign outside a Wendy's restaurant in Orangeburg, S.C. is shown against a blue sky Tuesday, Nov.

Three people were killed in a Tuesday afternoon car accident on US-178, about six miles east of Bowman.

Offshore oil drilling, wind and nuclear power and global warming brought together five Democrat and five Republican candidates for governor in an unusual bipartisan debate Tuesday.

Ten candidates vying to be governor of South Carolina left little doubt Tuesday of the importance of natural resources and the environment.

An Orangeburg school district is stepping up security after officials say several children were approached by strangers while waiting to be picked up after school.

A man accused of carrying homemade bombs and rifles in his car will be in jail for a while.

Gov. Mark Sanford signed into law a measure on Thursday that will extend jobless benefits to workers who had started to run out of weekly state and federal help.

Congratulations to the Middle School Chess Team who placed second in the South Carolina Independent School Association State Chess Tournament held on October 22nd in Orangeburg, SC.

Authorities say they found seven homemade bombs in a New Jersey man's van after a traffic stop in South Carolina.

A South Carolina man has been charged with murder in the death of a woman shot in the parking lot of a fast food restaurant.

A woman is dead and a man is in custody after a shooting in the parking lot of a fast-food restaurant in Rock Hill.

A Summerton man is in stable condition after being shot Thursday morning. Officials with the Orangeburg County Sheriff's Department said Friday that the 33-year-old man was treated for a gunshot wound to the side at Regional Medical Center of Orangeburg and Calhoun Counties after being shot near a convenience store on S.C. 6. According to reports, ...

Police are investigating a train and vehicle collision at an intersection near the campuses of South Carolina State and Claflin Universities that happened after 11 a.m. Thursday.

Two South Carolina Republican officials have apologized for likening Sen. Jim DeMint to Jews who "take care of the pennies." Bamberg County GOP Chairman Edwin Merwin and Orangeburg County GOP Chairman James Ulmer wrote the Orangeburg Times and Democrat to defend DeMint, also a Republican, after a Democratic politician said he didn't help direct ...

Two teenage girls who claimed they were abducted and held for ransom over the weekend face felony charges for committing what authorities said was a hoax.

Clyde T. Stephens of New Ellenton was promoted on Wednesday to lead the area where he has served since 1990.

COLUMBIA, South Carolina - Two Republican county officials in South Carolina have apologized after they disparaged Jews in a newspaper op-ed in support of a fiscally conservative U.S. senator.

Two former animal control officers in South Carolina have pleaded guilty to animal cruelty and have been fined.