Colleton County News

Thirteen people pled guilty this month to federal charges involving student loan fraud in the Walterboro area, U.S. Attorney for South Carolina Bill Nettles said Wednesday.

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

This spring he began a variety of legal services to persons in Winnsboro from his office at 150 South Congress St.

Every little Southern town has its oddities, whether it's Tony the Peanut Man or that guy with the cans from Colleton County, and Elbert County, Ga.

Colleton County Fire and Rescue officials say the 16-year-old and friends were swimming in what's being called an excavation pit or pond Saturday evening when the teen had trouble swimming.

The boy, whose identity has not been released, was in the water with friends at the Twin Oaks Lane swimming hole when he ran into trouble and slipped underwater shortly before 6 p.m., Colleton County Fire and Rescue Director Barry McRoy said.

One man was killed this afternoon in a single-car wreck along Green Pond Highway, north of Ritter in Colleton County.

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.

ALEX BOERNER/TREASURE COAST NEWSPAPERS Mike Kirkhart, owner of New Wave Taxidermy Fish Artistry, fills in depressions on the surface of the mount he is making of Carolina Snowball, an albino dolphin that was captured in South Carolina waters in 1962 and taken to the Miami Seaquarium.

A Tropical Storm Watch has been issued for all of Berekely and Charleston counties, as well as coastal Colleton and Beaufort counties.

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

A North Charleston police cruiser crashed into a tree this afternoon in Colleton County, according to the S.C. Highway Patrol.

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

Authorities say a 25-year-old man from North Carolina was transported to the hospital after getting stomped by a bull at a rodeo in Walterboro.