Vacant Rock Hill home damaged by fire

ORANGEBURG -- Vacant Rock Hill home damaged by fire

Rock Hill firefighters responded to a house fire on West Black Street around 10 p.m. Friday.

No one was living in the home at 243 W. Black St., said Capt. Scott Long of the Rock Hill Fire Department. One room was destroyed in the one-story dwelling, he said.

Matt Garfield

Rock Hill High band places 3rd in AAAAA

The Rock Hill High School marching band finished third in the Class AAAAA state championships Saturday at South Carolina State University.

Rock Hill's Band of Distinction turned in a bronze-medal performance in its program, “Olympus '09,” scoring 91.2 points as one of eight finalists.

Fourteen bands competed in the AAAAA division on Saturday at S.C. State's Oliver C. Dawson Stadium.

Wando High school took first place with 94.675 points, followed in second by Boiling Springs with 91.975 points.

Joe Gulledge directs the Band of Distinction, which finished as a silver medalist in 2008.

Mother, daughter killed after car flips on road

Authorities say a South Carolina mother and daughter were killed Friday after their car flipped.

Troopers told multiple media outlets the wreck happened around 3:30 p.m. Friday on a road near Pickens.

Authorities say Lillian Tate, 78, lost control of her 1995 Chevrolet Lumina, which hit an embankment and flipped, ejecting her daughter 57-year-old Deborah Whitmire.

2nd woman faces charges in girl's death

The roommate of a South Carolina woman charged with homicide by child abuse in the death of a 3-year-old girl in her care is also facing similar charges.

Multiple media outlets reported investigators charged 23-year-old Shanita Cunningham with homicide by child abuse Friday.

Cunningham lived with 23-year-old Erica Butts, who was arrested after Serenity Richardson died Tuesday.