Dorchester County News

Dorchester County Council appears determined to hold the line on tax and fees in next year's budget, but residents will still pay more.

Editor's note: According to information provided Wednesday by the Summerville Police Department, the following suspects were still at large.

A grant from the Rural Infrastructure Authority means Dorchester County will be able to bring water to the Harleyville area.

Dorchester Seniors, Inc., in partnership with SCDSS and SCDA is issuing free vouchers to income-eligible individuals age 60 and older for the purchase of fresh SC homegrown produce at designated local farmers' markets.

Investigators with the SC Department of Revenue today arrested a Summerville man on nine counts of failure to properly collect withholding tax.

Present at the awards ceremony were Amanda Addy , Elmire Raven and Cindy Schmidt and Tracey Rankin .

TV reports that Dorchester County Coroner Chris Nisbet says Kenneth Justus used a razor blade to commit suicide.

Authorities say no charges will be filed in the death of a double-amputee from Harleyville who was fatally mauled two weeks ago.

This is a common summer sight on the Edisto River - dozens of partiers in all manner of colorful craft.

Authorities say no charges will be filed in the death of an 80-year-old double-amputee mauled to death by dogs earlier this month in South Carolina.

Big bang Officers responded to 101 Plume Poppy Ct., in Summer Haven, April 28, to neighbors reporting a man in the front yard discharging a firearm.

The official branding of our town as the "Birthplace of Sweet Tea," a recent tourism incentive of the Greater Summerville/Dorchester Chamber of Commerce, has spawned added enticements for visitors.

Local activist Louis Smith, president of the Robynwyn Palmetto Civic Association, addressed the Dorchester County District Two School Board Monday on two issues pertaining to racial inequality.

Carlton Freeman's friends say about everybody around Harley-ville knew him. He worked for the railroad, drove a truck for the county and was a regular at camp meetings before he lost his legs.

A South Carolina coroner says that it was "a wonder" that Carlton Freeman, an 80-year-old double amputee, was not killed during the attack by the dogs that pulled him from his wheelchair last week.

At The Citadel Graduate College commencement exercises on May 4 in McAlister Field House, more than 330 degrees were conferred and awards were presented.

Carlton Freeman of Harleyville was driving his motorized wheelchair May 8 when the dogs pulled him from his chair and bit him all over his body.

The Dorchester County Sheriff's office says that Carlton Freeman of Harleyville was driving his motorized wheelchair on May 8 when the dogs attacked him.

HARLEYVILLE, S.C. An 80-year-old South Carolina amputee in a wheelchair has died of injuries he received after he was attacked by four dogs.

ANDREW KNAPP/STAFF -- May 13, 2013 -- The Lincoln Navigator that Charleston County Sheriff's Office deputies chased Monday night from Charleston nearly to Orangeburg County speeds southward on U.S. Highway 17 near the Ashley River bridge.