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Woman Jailed 10 Days For Having Messy Yard

A Mount Pleasant woman is serving 10 days in jail after failing to pay a $480 fine for having a messy yard.

Teenage gang charged under lynching law after 'savage attack on 18-year-old student'

Four members of a teenage gang have been charged under a state's lynching law after allegedly beating an 18-year-old student so badly he required facial reconstruction surgery.

REPORT: Baby died from lethal dose of morphine in mother's breast milk

Authorities in South Carolina say an infant girl died from a lethal dose of morphine that was in her mother's breast milk.

ACLU wants porn to be allowed for inmates

The American Civil Liberties Union is pushing for porn at a detention center in Moncks Corner, South Carolina.

Man calls 911 after being shortchanged in crack deal

Ray Rivera, Cameron Easley Live5news 05/04/2011
Man calls 911 after being shortchanged in crack deal

Police arrested a 41-year-old man last week after he called 911 and told officers that he was not given the correct change after buying crack cocaine from a drug dealer.

'It doesn't go that fast. It would take an act of sabotage': Shocking assessment from officials into the miniature train derailment that killed six-year-old boy and injured 28

Sabotage could have played a part in a horrific miniature train derailment which left a six-year-old boy dead and 28 others injured, officials said.

South Carolina Considers Alternate Penalties for Drivers Caught Going Slightly Above Speed Limit

South Carolina is considering a bill that would allow police to slap $150 tickets on motorists caught driving less than 10 mph over the limit --10 times the current minimum -- but let them skip reporting the tickets to shield low-speed offenders from higher insurance premiums.

Vet, 77, busted for threatening to kill Obama because he's 'not doing enough to help African Americans'

A 77-year-old South Carolina man whose home was stocked with an arsenal of guns told Secret Service agents that he wanted to shoot Barack Obama “for what he has done to this country,” according to a criminal complaint charging him with threatening the president’s life.

Deputies: SC Motel Guest Trashed Room To Find 'Midget'

SPARTANBURG COUNTY, S.C. -- In what was apparently a phone prank that has taken place in other parts of the country, a motel guest said someone called his room and told him to smash the things inside in order to free a "midget" trapped next door.

Plane hits and kills beachgoer in South Carolina

A single-engine plane with oil covering its windshield, while trying to make an emergency landing, hit and killed a man on a South Carolina beach Monday afternoon.


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