Beaufort County News

When Laura Winholt started the Daufuskie Island Feral Cat Project three years ago, she didn't know if her plan to trap, spay or neuter, and release the animals and manage their colonies would help reduce their population.

One of the three teenagers accused of attacking two Bluffton men while they were grilling out in a backyard in October 2008 pleaded guilty Friday to second-degree burglary, according to the Beaufort County Solicitora TMs Office.

Two Savannah men were sentenced Friday to life in prison without the possibility of parole for shooting two brothers -- paralyzing one -- at a Bluffton apartment in July 2008.

Beaufort County can use its discretion to decide which of 10 road projects -- approved by voters in a 2006 referendum -- will be completed in the face of an expected $85.4 million shortfall, an attorney said Monday.

A 42-year-old Bluffton woman must serve at least 51 months in prison for sexually assaulting a 13-year-old boy while she was baby-sitting him in August 2008.

A mother and her 4-year-old son are dead and her 2-year-old son is in critical condition after being shot at their home.

A Lowcountry woman and a four-year-old boy are dead after a Sunday night shooting in the Dale area, near Seabrook, in Beaufort County.

A South Carolina man charged with murder after his speeding Maserati plowed into a house and killed a man is scheduled for a court appearance.

Taxpayers should expect happy voices on the other end of the telephone if they call Beaufort County offices to complain about their property tax bills.

The public defender who oversees representation for the poor in five South Carolina counties has been charged with driving under the influence.

Beaufort County residents concerned about heavy rains and high winds from Tropical Storm Ida won't have much to worry about when the weakened storm makes landfall this morning, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Charleston said.

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.