Orangeburg County News

The ground breaking for the new Boeing plant in North Charleston is making surrounding communities hopeful, including in Orangeburg where the unemployment rate is at 17.8 percent.

The S.C. Department of Transportation has scheduled a public information meeting for Dec.

An Orangeburg County brother and sister found themselves on the wrong end of a shotgun Tuesday outside a Neeses hunting club.

An Orangeburg County family is still looking for answers a year after the disappearance of their loved one.

A group of World War II veterans are resting after returning from a round trip to Washington DC as part of the "Honor Flight" program.

A Santee business is wrapped up in a federal lawsuit settlement. Some people reported the Gilmore Tax Service charged hundreds of people to file forms.

A Blackstock man was one of 21 people charged in an indictment, one of three separate cockfighting cases announced Wednesday by U.S. Attorney W. Walter Wilkins.

Orangeburg County deputies need your help finding a man they believe sexually assaulted a 10-year-old. They say the incident occured in July between 33-year-old Maurice Duley and a young girl.

A man accused of carrying homemade bombs and rifles in his car will be in jail for a while.

According to the "Times and Democrat" of Orangeburg, traffic on U.S. Highway 301 South is blocked because of a possible bomb threat.

Authorities say they found seven homemade bombs in a New Jersey man's van after a traffic stop in South Carolina.

An Orangeburg County highway is expected to reopen soon after deputies stopped someone they say may have been heavily armed.

While many became enraged by an op-ed column by local GOP leaders, Yomin Postelnik came to their defense.

Two South Carolina Republican officials have apologized for likening Sen. Jim DeMint to Jews who "take care of the pennies." Bamberg County GOP Chairman Edwin Merwin and Orangeburg County GOP Chairman James Ulmer wrote the Orangeburg Times and Democrat to defend DeMint, also a Republican, after a Democratic politician said he didn't help direct ...

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Two Republican county chairmen from South Carolina invoked a Jewish stereotype about money management to defend U.S. Senator Jim DeMint , from charges that he had failed to obtain enough federal funding for his state.

Two former animal control officers in South Carolina have pleaded guilty to animal cruelty and have been fined.

Temp: 62.0 F Wind Chill: 62 F Augusta, Bush Field, GA October 14, 2009 The South Carolina Highway Patrol is searching for a suspect from a fatal hit and run in Orangeburg County.

A Summerton man is in stable condition after being shot Thursday morning. Officials with the Orangeburg County Sheriff's Department said Friday that the 33-year-old man was treated for a gunshot wound to the side at Regional Medical Center of Orangeburg and Calhoun Counties after being shot near a convenience store on S.C. 6. According to reports, ...

An Orangeburg County woman is spending another rainy night on her porch as she has for the past six weeks.