The deadline to register to vote in the June 10 Republican and Democratic primary elections is Saturday.

Voter registration offices in York and Chester counties will be open that Saturday. York County residents can register from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the E.C. Black Building, 13 S. Congress St., York. Chester County residents can register between 8:30 a.m. and noon at 109 Ella St., Chester.

Mail-in applications can be downloaded at the S.C. State Election Commission Web site, www.state.sc.us/scsec/vr.html. Entries must be postmarked by May 10.

For information in York County, call 684-1242. In Chester County, call 803-385-2562.

-- Kimberly Dick

Meeting tonight on gang violence and prevention

YORK -- City leaders will gather at 7 tonight at Wesley United Methodist Church, 110 W. Jefferson St., York, for a gang violence and prevention town hall meeting with John King, who is running for the District 49 seat in the state's House of Representatives.

Featured guests include York Mayor Eddie Lee, City Councilwoman Josephine Castle and Police Chief Bill Mobley.

Food will be served.

The event is sponsored by the Committee to Elect John R. King.

-- Enquirer-Herald

Federal prosecutor Wilkins gets nod for U.S. Attorney

COLUMBIA -- Federal prosecutor Walt Wilkins has been nominated to be the next U.S. Attorney for South Carolina.

President Bush nominated Wilkins on the advice of senators Lindsey Graham and Jim DeMint. The U.S. Senate must approve.

Wilkins would replace Reggie Lloyd, who resigned to become chief of the State Law Enforcement Division.

Wilkins is currently an assistant U.S. attorney in the South Carolina district and is the son of former Chief U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge William "Billy" Wilkins.

Body might be linked to FBI agent's robbery

GREENVILLE -- Authorities are trying to determine if a body found in Laurens County is one of the suspects shot at by an FBI agent during a robbery in Greenville last month.

Coroner Nick Nichols says the man was shot in the heart and likely died in minutes. His decomposed remains were found Tuesday night off a dirt road. The man's identity has not been determined.

Greenville police are investigating if the man might have been one of two men in ski masks who robbed a vacationing FBI agent and two other people at gunpoint April 27.

Authorities say the agent fired a shot at the men as they ran toward a waiting vehicle.

Police investigating the robbery have asked authorities in surrounding areas to watch for bodies or people looking for medical treatment for a gunshot wound.

S.C. House delays action on budget amendment

COLUMBIA -- South Carolina House members delayed taking action on amendments to a $7 billion state budget that would restore money to college research and tourism programs.

A mixup in the 180-page amendment's drafting and extended debate on an immigration bill left House members saying Wednesday they wanted more time to review changes to the Senate version of the spending plan.

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dan Cooper told members the biggest changes included restoring $10 million for research programs and $10 million for tourism promotion the Senate dropped as it cut $180 million from the budget last month.

The House is expected to resume discussions on the amendment today.