Spokeswoman says 1 was killed, 3 injured in what authorities say was tornado in central N.C.

Bond has been denied for an Alabama man charged with raping a 14-year-old South Carolina girl he met on MySpace.

Authorities say a 35-year-old prisoner serving a life sentence for murder killed himself with an overdose of prescription drugs.

Two people have pleaded guilty to federal charges in connection with a drug ring that spanned several states, including North Carolina and South Carolina.

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When it came time to choose its next chancellor, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill sifted through more than 100 applicants from 32 states and the District of Columbia before turning to one of its own.

Authorities say they have arrested a suspect in the robbery of a vacationing FBI agent last month in downtown Greenville.

Authorities say they have arrested a suspect in the robbery of a vacationing FBI agent last month in downtown Greenville.

A South Carolina prosecutor has agreed to drop any effort to seek a death penalty for a suspect who fled to Canada after the death of a pawn shop owner in Easley.

A judge has denied a request that jurors be chosen from another area in the trial of a convicted sex offender charged with killing a 20-year-old Clemson University student.

Beaufort County educators have agreed to pay more than $500,000 to settle a lawsuit from a student who claimed to have been sexually abused by a former music teacher.

Firefighters battling a blaze that killed nine of their colleagues in a Charleston furniture store last year didn't have enough hoses or adequate water pressure to properly fight the fire, according to a draft of a federal report released Thursday.

A judge has ordered a Rock Hill teen to juvenile prison for killing a man at a party.

Advocates for the elderly hope a task force announced Thursday will stop scams that rob the state's seniors of their hard-earned savings.

The House approved a final version of the state's $7 billion budget Thursday that falls short of meeting a basic state function: getting children to schoolhouses.