Walterboro News

Squeezed by ever tightening air pollution rules, Midlands utility SCE&G plans to close two coal-burning power plants and modify a third electricity generating station after decades of using coal to make energy.

United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that thirteen co-defendants have pleaded guilty this month in federal court in Charleston to Conspiracy to Commit Mail Fraud, Wire Fraud, and Student Financial Aid Fraud, all in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 371.

Piles of coal sit inside SCE&G's Canadys Station near Walterboro. The utility plans to close the site in 2017.

Mr. Charlie Scattergood Creighton, formerly of Charleston, died May 28, 2012 at the Veterans Victory House in Walterboro after a valiant battle with Alzheimer's disease.

And it's usually about elderly people who had been paying property taxes on the land for a lifetime; they thought they were doing the right thing to hold on to ancestral land.

Shown is the "Little Library", the oldest public building in Colleton County, which recently was awarded a DAR grant to pay for needed restoration work.

Authorities believe they have captured a trio of robbers responsible for more than three dozen holdups that terrorized Asian restaurants and check-cashing businesses across the Lowcountry over a two-year span.

Federal prosecutors say three men have been indicted for more than three dozen armed robberies of Chinese restaurants, check cashing and loan businesses across the Lowcountry.

Walterboro investigators are trying to find a robber who used a handgun to steal a shopping cart 'full of money' from Walmart employees, a police report says.

Yellow Sheet Pork Carcass Cutout Value - Quote: $0.802 Week Ago: $0.787 52 Weeks Ago:0.961 Two South Carolina companies are recalling nearly 7,000 pounds of ground beef which possibly are contaminated with E.coli . The South Carolina Meat Poultry Inspection Department announced the recall on Friday for products from Lancaster Frozen Foods in ... (more)

He was known as "The Voice" of the county during the 17 years he worked as the county's switchboard operator.

Two South Carolina companies are recalling nearly 7,000 pounds of ground beef which possibly are contaminated with E.coli. The South Carolina Meat Poultry Inspection Department announced the recall on Friday for products from Lancaster Frozen Foods in Lancaster and G&W Inc.

CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. - A Chesterfield personal trainer was a no-show in court today for a status hearing.A Instead members of his family showed up in his place.

Two Summerville men are behind bars in Dorchester County in connection with a home invasion that occurred March 29 in Summerville.

But at least one town councilman wonders if drivers will spend too much time in the fast lane to notice.

Officers with the Walterboro Department of Public Safety were dispatched to Forest Circle Middle School on Wednesday for a fire at a modular building at the school.

The third and final suspect that Dorchester County authorities were seeking for a March 29 home invasion armed robbery was apprehended Wednesday.

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Anthony Kerry was unable to escape from the raging bull as it gored his stomach and trampled over his body.

An officer responded to a call about a fight in progress between a man and a woman armed with a baseball bat at a residence on Wood Duck Drive in Summerville.