Ravenel News

A state employee passed The Buzz a note this week that was included with paychecks.

The Sumter Police Department's Financial Crimes Unit uncovered a counterfeit check scheme recently and arrested five people, while 13 people are still being sought on various charges.

Everybody in this rural community knows Mama Sylvia because her door was always open and her table always full.

It's been a commuter nightmare this morning as heavy rain contributes to accidents and closes roads.

Nearly 200 people packed the cafeteria of Baptist Hill High School on Tuesday night and spilled out into the halls for a hearing where most opposed plans to create a construction waste landfill in Adams Run.

Pascal Etcheber, a French national previously arrested in the drug investigation of former South Carolina Treasurer Thomas Ravenel, was given a new court-appointed attorney this morning.

Trophies from earlier hunts adorn the lodge at Ravenwood Hunt Club. In the Lowcountry, after God, country and family, there's deer.

The French national charged with lying during the drug investigation of former South Carolina state Treasurer Thomas Ravenel faces new charges.

Handguns, rifles and shotguns will be cheaper today and Saturday because the legislature has designated those days as a tax-free "Second Amendment Weekend." Brad Andrews, the operations manager of Bass Pro Shops at the Myrtle Beach Mall, said that he expects many more gun sales during the tax-free days.

A small community is in mourning tonight after burying three of their own. Today family members in Walterboro held a funeral for those killed last week in a drive by shooting.

The Beach Company plans to develop 1,427 acres on Kiawah Island in a 20-year project that could create hundreds of jobs and pump millions of dollars into the local economy.

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Converse Chellis, one of South Carolina's most left-leaning, free-spending "Republican" politicians, will face a GOP primary opponent in 2010, FITS has learned.

The Charleston County School District's administrative headquarters at 75 Calhoun St.

Workers set up holiday displays in JCPenney last week and immediately marked most Christmas items down 50 percent.

Feline Freedom Coalition members linked nearly 5,000 neon bands and staked them in the grassy lawn in front of the Mount Pleasant Visitor Center on Friday to draw attention to the feral cats lurking outside area grocery stores and trash bins.

The 2009 Boone Hall Corn Maze that opens to the public this coming Thursday, covers the whole state of South Carolina.

Curtis Inabinett, Jr., Member of Council in the Town of Ravenel conceived the idea of having a Music Festival in the St.

Police say they are on the lookout for two men who invaded a home and lead authorities on a car chase in Ravenel.

In an interview on a Columbia radio station last week, Gov. Mark Sanford said he wouldn't be a drag on the Republican gubernatorial ticket in 2010, despite the controversy of his Argentinian affair and an investigation into his travel records.