The man who authorities say fatally shot a Pickens attorney waited in the parking lot behind the attorney's office in the minutes leading up to the shooting last Wednesday.

The South Carolina GOP is ditching the idea of forming a Tea Party Republican group while leaders say they are finding ways to make the party appeal more to the activists.

Congressional officials, state and local government, USDA Rural Development, the Town of Patrick, Alligator Rural Water Company and local citizens joined Rural Development State Director, Vernita F. Dore during a ground-breaking ceremony held on Jan.

State Rep. Richard Chalk, R-Hilton Head Island, and two fellow Republicans vying for his seat competed to portray themselves as the most conservative during a forum Monday on Hilton Head Island.

Hamlet, NC 28345 Robert L. & Elizabeth S. Cole Auditorium & Community Center, located on the campus of Richmond Community College cost: $25 + per seat more info: www.richmondcc.edu/coleindex.html. Cole Auditorium Performance: Paragon Ragtime Orchestra will present silent films from Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and Harold Lloyd and music from the ...

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Robert Gedris of Hartsville announce the engagement of their daughter, Ashley Anne Gedris to Tex Allen Taylor II, son of Mr.

Mary Logan and Lilla Ann Briggs have a manner about them - make that a bedside manner.

Interstate 26 isn't the only highway in the state giving motorists fits . A botched resurfacing job last year on a stretch of the Mark Clark Expressway also has motorists feeling as if they're being pelted by miniature missiles.

" The Easley High School Band will host a Winter Guard and Indoor Percussion competition this weekend, on Jan.

Deteriorating asphalt on a stretch of Interstate 26 and the recent cold spell created what motorists are describing as a hailstorm of rocks and debris - cracking windshields, chipping paint and adding stress to busy rush-hour drives.

Port-au-Prince, Haiti, is unrecognizable to Patrick and Mirianne Gue since Tuesday's deadly earthquake, yet they still look at images of the ruins and wonder whether family members could be trapped somewhere beneath the rubble.

They looked like they were posing for an eclectic class picture: dozens of smiling faces, everyone carefully lined up.

FLORENCE, SC Right-handed pitcher Patrick Mincey has transferred to Francis Marion University and will join the Patriots' pitching staff for the 2010 campaign, according to FMU head coach Art Inabinet.

Leavelle McCampbell Middle School didn't exactly roll out the red carpet for University of South Carolina President Dr.

South Carolina college students returning to classes today will begin to feel the pinch from numerous rounds of state budget cuts.

Authorities say they found an unloaded gun and ammunition in the pockets of a 14-year-old student at a South Carolina middle school.

A South Carolina lawmaker plans to introduce a bill that would make it a felony to threaten violence against military members or their families because they are serving their country.

When you have an assignment for a paper, and you are unable to leave your office, what's a freelance writer to do? Well, if you are Jana Banana, you click on Facebook! Luckily, she is the face behind the Our Hartsville Facebook page that gives updates each morning about events and news in Hartsville.

A Revolutionary War battle was fought in Greenville County about five miles southwest of Simpsonville.

A Sumter man who police say shot and killed a trick-or-treater at his door has been sentenced to more than 16 years in prison on a federal weapons charge.