Rock Hill News

Lots of businesses have had to trim staff and change how their they operate in order to remain afloat in this dismal economy.

Jim Faris opened his Rock Hill store, Hobby Stop, on Thursday to find it had been burglarized.

The Rock Hill Galleria plans to give away $5,000 in shopping sprees on Black Friday.

For the second year, BusinessWeek Magazine has named Rock Hill as the best city in South Carolina to raise children.

Rock Hill Mayor Doug Echols traveled to Washington, D.C., this week to talk up the city's efforts to address climate change.

A Rock Hill jewelry store was burglarized this week, police say. Thieves got away with more than $20,000 worth of jewelry and two laptop computers valued at $4,000 after breaking into Angela Woods Interiors and Antiques on India Hook Road after hours, according to a report from the York County Sheriff's Office.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 11:38 a.m. Read more: Local , State , Community , Annual Scrooges and Angels , 2009 In the following news release, South Carolina Secretary of State Mark Hammond announced today the fourteenth-annual Scrooges and Angels for 2009.

A gift of $2 million from two South Carolina telecommunications companies, combined with an equivalent amount of state lottery money, has made it possible for Clemson University to establish a new professorship in optoelectronics.

A fight began at a Rock Hill apartment complex late Tuesday afternoon involving a gun, police say.

A 42-year-old South Carolina woman has been sentenced to five years in prison for sexually assaulting a 13-year-old boy she was baby-sitting. The Island Packet of Hilton Head reports Susan Tappeiner of Bluffton was sentenced Monday.

MC Faulkner loves the days when her classes at Northwestern High School start two hours late.

Authorities are looking for the mother of an infant born at a South Carolina hospital with cocaine and marijuana in its system.

When Keith Callicutt was picked in 2005 to lead Fort Mill schools, he took control of one of the state's highest achieving districts at a time when its reputation was drawing a crush of newcomers.

Rock Hill schools might shuffle students between Oakdale and Mount Holly elementaries to bring each school's demographics closer in line with the district's average.

Police in Rock Hill will tell you there's rarely a day when a local store doesn't call them to report a shoplifter.

Prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty against a North Carolina woman accused of killing her 11-month-old daughter and hiding her body in an attic.

More than 500 people, young and old, filled a Rock Hill park for the dedication of a long-awaited tribute to America's veterans.

The teenager who sold a rusted hangun to another student at Saluda Trail Middle School last month will spend up to 45 days in an Upstate detention center, and the teen who bought the gun with small bills and coins will be on house arrest for the same amount of time, their families learned Tuesday.

A Rock Hill man who deputies found walking near a Lesslie Highway business Sunday night faces armed robbery charges.

Authorities say three people have been killed and five injured in a shooting in a small town west of Charleston.