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Raid on Olympia house nets meth lab, 3 arrests

Responding to a call shortly before 3 p.m. Thursday, Richland County Sheriff’s Department deputies raided the residence at 217 Church St. in Olympia and discovered an active meth lab, department spokesman Curtis Wilson said.
CRIME

Police release 911 call following attack on Dacusville family

A neighbor of the Dacusville woman who has been charged with murdering her two children and trying to kill her husband told a Pickens County dispatcher on the morning of the incident “something’s not right” after the woman’s family didn’t answer the door when he...
CRIME

Horry County Council seeks to update laws for adult entertainment businesses

Proposed ordinance changes include regulations on where the establishments can locate within the unincorporated areas of Horry County and on those who might want to work at the businesses.
CRIME

Police: Rock Hill woman was drunk in court

A Rock Hill woman who last year police say beat a taxi cab with an antenna is now accused of appearing in court on Wednesday drunk, according to authorities.
CRIME

Irmo bookie breaks down during autopsy testimony, is taken to hospital

The hospital trip forced Judge DeAndrea Benjamin to send the jury home early on the sixth day of testimony in the Irmo bookie’s double murder trial.
POLITICS

WATCH THE VIDEO: ‘I can’t believe I got handcuffs on me at the State House,’ Ted Vick says

That’s one of the things state Rep. Ted Vick was heard saying Tuesday night when he was arrested on a DUI charge in the State House parking garage in Columbia.
CRIME

UPDATE: Four men rob, shoot 21-year-old

Richland County authorities released a surveillance video that they believe shows one of the suspects wanted for questioning in a May 9th shooting on Long Shadow Road.
CRIME

Man charged in Applebee's shooting

Police have arrested a man after shots were fired near the Devine Street Applebee's Wednesday evening.
CRIME

Violent turn in promising life stuns neighbors of Dacusville woman

The woman who was charged with murdering her two young children and trying to kill her husband in Dacusville on Tuesday grew up on a quiet street in a nice suburban neighborhood in Taylors, family and friends say.
CRIME

10 years later, triple slaying at Upstate bank remains unsolved mystery

David Holtzclaw knows his mom, Sylvia, would have loved to have celebrated the special joys of life — the marriage of a son, the birth of a grandchild, the growth of her beloved Greer community.