Berkeley County News

A jury awarded the family of a Moncks Corner woman killed in a 2008 car crash $3.5 million on Tuesday, ordered to be paid by the driver of the other car involved in the wreck, according to attorney Mullins McLeod.

Evan Guthrie of the Evan Guthrie Law Firm in Charleston, South Carolina spoke to students at Cane Bay High School in Summerville, SC on Wednesday March 13th 2013.

If you want to get involved in Berkeley County politics, here's a good piece of advice: grow some thick skin.

A woman says a North Charleston, S.C. bonding company failed to monitor a 25-year-old man who sexually assaulted her while wearing one of the firm's tracking devices.

It's meant to be a 425-mile hiking and biking trail through the beauty of the South Carolinian landscape, organized into passages that can be traveled as day trips if you can't make the whole trek in one shot.

Restaurants on Obamacare - The P&C looks at how the Affordable Care Act will affect large restauranteurs in the Charleston area as provisions require employers to provide health benefits to full-time F&B workers who traditionally have not been offered benefits.

The state's population grew to 4.7 million, up about 2.1 percent and about 100,000 from two years earlier.

A media attorney is questioning the Berkeley County School Board's compliance with the state's Freedom of Information Act.

Bad weather raking the East Coast is bearing down on the Lowcountry, and could bring severe thunderstorms with damaging high winds into the Charleston area tonight, according to the National Weather Service.

The Berkeley County Sheriff's Office Drug Enforcement Unit has taken three suspects into custody and expects more arrests in connection with a meth lab that was in operation at the time of the discovery.

Richland County deputies arrested 25-year-old Reanado Cortez Rose on two counts of sexual exploitation of a minor second-degree.

The state Board of Education approved today the expansion of the national nonprofit Teach for America into four more South Carolina school districts in 2013-14, and two of those are in the Lowcountry.

A woman says a North Charleston bonding company failed to monitor a 25-year-old man who sexually assaulted her while wearing one of the firm's tracking devices.

A new legislative proviso states that the DOT can't use state funds to remove 30 miles of trees in the median of Interstate 26 until approval is given by the Berkeley-Charleston-Dorchester Council of Governments.

Now that Berkeley County Council has dropped its bid to pass a hospitality tax before the city of Goose Creek, the city can move ahead more purposefully, the mayor said Tuesday.

The city of Goose Creek and Berkeley County are fighting over possible new tax money, with each scheduling special meetings in an effort to stop the other from passing the law first.

Bluffton Town Manager Anthony Barrett and Director of Finance Shirley Freeman met with Town Council last week to discuss the proposed budget.

Berkeley County School Board will hold its summer workshop at 4 p.m. Friday at the Wampee Conference Center in Pinopolis.

Charleston County emergency management officials and their counterparts from Berkeley and Dorchester counties held a news conference this morning at Charleston County's new Emergency Operations Center on Palmetto Commerce Parkway.

Dorchester 2 high schools held their graduations May 25 at the North Charleston Coliseum.