Dorchester County News

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.

Seen in a dashboard video, an S.C. Highway Patrol trooper arrests North Charleston Police Officer Christina Mask on drunken driving charges after Mask crashed her marked patrol car April 22 near Jedburg.

Traffic problems at Fort Dorchester High School should be reduced under a plan that involves local governments joining forces to buy nearly 14 acres of land next to the school for $950,000. Fort Dorchester's Bagwell Stadium is shown in this 2011 photo.

Curios are the charm of this quirky town, and its old waterworks is where a host of them end up.

CHARLESTON, S.C., May 4 -- The Citadel issued the following news release: At The Citadel Graduate College commencement exercises Saturday, May 4, 2013, in McAlister Field House, more than 330 degrees were conferred and awards were presented.

A traffic accident on S.C. Highway 61 in Dorchester County has closed the road in both directions, the Dorchester County Sheriff's Office said.

From left, Melissa Watson, chair of Berkeley County DP and 2nd Vice Chair of SCDP, Richard Hayes, Chair of the Dorchester County Democratic Party, and Bobbie Rose, state party delegate from Charleston County.

The S.C. Supreme Court has reprimanded a former Dorchester County magistrate for various infractions, including a self-reported incident in which the judge decreased a criminal defendant's bond to $10 and then paid it himself.

Herman Dangerfield, 58, was among those arrested in a federal opeartion targeting sex offenders who failed to register.

With 112 of 133 precincts reporting, the Associated Press has called the race for former Governor Mark Sanford.