Charleston County News

Friday, July 10, 2009 at 6:50 p.m. It was a meeting of the minds Friday, as police continue the search for a missing New York teenager.

Law-enforcement authorities from Myrtle Beach and Georgetown and Charleston counties are meeting this afternoon to discuss the search for Brittanee Drexel, a 17-year-old New York girl who disappeared on April 25.

The Charleston County Sheriff's Office are on the lookout for a suspect wanted for armed robbery at the Oasis bar on James Island on July 1. According to investigators, the suspect was in a convenience store before the robbery.

Tasers and other stun guns have proved effective in limiting injuries to police and suspects, but law enforcement needs to guard against potential abuse by officers who overly rely on such tools, a three-year study by University of South Carolina researchers found.

Charleston County has consolidated some of its tax offices as part of the expense-trimming needed to balance the recently approved budget.

Fifth Circuit Solicitor Barney Giese was charged June 29 with driving under the influence in downtown Charleston, according to a Charleston police report.

The city is modifying its computer software and soon will have monthly income and spending reports online.

Leonard Bernard Gregory Jr., 23, is accused of causing the crash that killed Johnny and Betty Vice on Sunday near Hampton Park.

A First Baptist Church teacher is accused of soliciting sex from a 12-year-old student.

A man on a bicycle was killed when he was hit by a car in Ladson on Tuesday night.

Two South Carolinians have died after their car was hit by another vehicle that ran a stop sign.

A suspect in a string of seven local robberies was charged Thursday in connection with a weekend restaurant holdup in West Ashley.

Two West Ashley armed robberies just 23 hours apart and the same man might be responsible.

Sherriff's deputies arrest a man who is accused of shooting another man at a McClellanville gas station .

Charleston County Sheriff's deputies have arrested a man accused of shooting another man three times in the back at a McClellanville gas station Monday.

Options for the Charleston County School Board tonight: raise your taxes or make cuts.

"I am alive and unhurt." These words, underlined and penned on ship's stationery, opened a letter from Ensign John Scott to his parents 36 hours after Israeli warplanes attacked the spy ship USS Liberty on June 8, 1967.

The Baha 'i faith, a monotheistic religion established by Bah 'u'll h in 19th century Persia, counts among its contemporary numbers an estimated five to six million around the world in more than 200 countries and territories, with a growing population in the U.S. drawn to its message of the spiritual unity of all humankind.

Charleston County Sheriff's deputies say an armed woman wearing a black skull cap over her face robbed a Johns Island Subway Wednesday night.

MOUNT PLEASANT a ' Investigators are still working to identify a dead man found floating in the water Monday night near a dock at the Charleston Harbor Resort Marina.