Beaufort County News

A court order declaring John and Elizabeth Calvert dead provides more details pointing to Dennis Gerwing as their likely killer and lists several reasons that debunk notions that the couple might have vanished on their own.

The Beaufort County Animal Shelter euthanized 3,876 of the 5,604 animals it took in last year -- some feral, some too aggressive or too sick to be adopted and others casualtiesof tight space and scarce resources.

Sheriff Bobby Haddock knew time was running out for a 7-month-old girl missing in the Florida Panhandle.

Court records show that Susan Elizabeth Baker had been suspected in another child's 1987 disappearance in South Carolina and convicted of assaulting her daughter.

A couple were forced from a home Tuesday morning in Dale and into a car by two men - one armed with a gun and the other with a crowbar - while three children were inside the home, according to a Beaufort County sheriff news release today.

The Beaufort County Sheriff's Office and the FBI are looking for a man they say robbed a bank near Sun City Hilton Head early Tuesday.

Congratulations to Beaufort County Council, and especially to Chairman Weston Newton, for putting into place new regulations that could help protect and restore the health of our rivers.

The Beaufort County Sheriff's Office is searching for the whereabouts of suspect involved in a shooting incident that happened Thursday evening in the Laurel Village Mobile Home Park.

A 43-year-old Yemassee man was sentenced to 18 years in prison Thursday after being found guilty by a Beaufort County jury of fatally shooting his teenage stepson during an argument in July 2007.

A 29-year-old Beaufort man was found guilty of cocaine trafficking Tuesday and sentenced by Judge J. Ernest Kinard to 12 years in prison and ordered to pay a $50,000 fine, according to a news release this morning from the office of 14th Circuit Solicitor Duffy Stone.

Thomas Grover Rye, who killed an off-duty Beaufort County Sheriff's deputyin a 2004 dispute over dead cats, has been found not guilty of murder.

Two boats -- one of them owned by the Beaufort Fire Department -- caught fire at a Burton repair service shop Saturday after a 13-year-old boy cranked the ignition of one of them, according to a Beaufort County Sheriff's Office report.

Brian Lanese, the Bluffton resident severely beaten in his backyard a year ago whose case prompted questions about the quality of ambulance service in Beaufort County, has filed a lawsuit against Beaufort County EMS.

A second suspect was arrested Thursday in connection with a shooting on Buck Island Road late Oct.

Though it was expected to conclude by Friday, the retrial of a man convicted of fatally shooting an off-duty Beaufort County sheriff's deputy in 2004 during a disagreement over a dead cat will continue next week, according to the solicitor's office prosecuting the case.

Someone doesn't like a South Carolina couple's dolphin-shaped mailbox. The Island Packet of Hilton Head reported the six-foot-tall mailbox in Bluffton has been hit by vandals a fourth time in the last few years.

A Beaufort child abuse prevention group hopes better parenting education can help lower an alarming statistic: Five children have died of unnatural causes this year in Beaufort County.

South Carolina's jobless rate increased slightly during September as the size of the state's labor force reached its lowest level in a year, the agency that calculates the figures said Wednesday.

The Hunting Island Lighthouse has gotten a lot of attention lately, thanks to its 150th anniversary, which is being celebrated this weekend.

In more than a decade of working with the Beaufort County Guardian Ad Litem program, Curtis Pauling has encountered more than his share of "heart thieves" -- abused and neglected children for whom he advocates as they move through the state's family court system.