Beaufort News

Not quite. A 911 call, released Tuesday, became the latest piece of the case against Mercer and her step-aunt, Susan Baker, whom investigators said conspired to make 7-month-old Shannon Dedrick disappear.

A Beaufort man was shot early Saturday by an unknown suspect possibly during an attempted armed robbery, according to a Beaufort County Sheriff's Office police report.

Police are searching for two men who robbed the Bojangles' restaurant on Robert Smalls Parkway on Friday night after forcing the employees into a freezer, according to a Beaufort Police Department news release.

Beaufort County schools superintendent Valerie Truesdale says she will refuse any bonus the Board of Education might award her this year for boosting student achievement and meeting other goals.

Court records show that Susan Elizabeth Baker had been suspected in another child's 1987 disappearance in South Carolina and convicted of assaulting her daughter.

Anyone with any information regarding the whereabouts of Aaron Jamal Covington or the identity of the second suspect in the armed robbery should contact Investigator Sgt.

Authorities confirmed Wednesday they were investigating connections between a 22-year-old missing child case in South Carolina and the recent disappearance of 7-month-old Shannon Dedrick from her family's trailer near the woods.

Dr. Edward Blocker has signed on with Beaufort Memorial Hospital. He has a new office number, 843-522-7100, but he will remain in his current office location at 300 Midtown Drive in Beaufort.

A judge has given no prison time to two former South Carolina police officers who admitted they stole money from Hispanic drivers they pulled over.

The Tea Party Express Nationwide Tour will stop in Beaufort for a rally Nov. 10. Festivities get under way at 3:30 p.m. at Chambers Waterfront Pavilion, 1006 Bay St.

Happy's Homemade Sandwiches, Scoops and Sweets Is a great little family restaurant offering ice cream, cookies, coffee and sandwiches made on homemade bread.

The Beaufort County Sheriff's Office is searching for the whereabouts of suspect involved in a shooting incident that happened Thursday evening in the Laurel Village Mobile Home Park.

A 43-year-old South Carolina man has been sentenced to 18 years in prison after being convicted of killing his teenage stepson.

A 29-year-old Beaufort man was found guilty of cocaine trafficking Tuesday and sentenced by Judge J. Ernest Kinard to 12 years in prison and ordered to pay a $50,000 fine, according to a news release this morning from the office of 14th Circuit Solicitor Duffy Stone.

A boat owned by a South Carolina fire department is one of two that burned in a fire at a repair shop.

A 16-year-old male shot in the head early Saturday in Bluffton remains in critical condition at a Savannah hospital, police said Monday.

Two boats -- one of them owned by the Beaufort Fire Department -- caught fire at a Burton repair service shop Saturday after a 13-year-old boy cranked the ignition of one of them, according to a Beaufort County Sheriff's Office report.

Understanding the genetic make-up of a tumor can help doctors design individualized treatments for those with breast cancer, a leading oncologist and researcher told more than 350 Beaufort County residents Tuesday during presentations at Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort and Sun City Hilton Head.

A Beaufort child abuse prevention group hopes better parenting education can help lower an alarming statistic: Five children have died of unnatural causes this year in Beaufort County.

South Carolina's jobless rate increased slightly during September as the size of the state's labor force reached its lowest level in a year, the agency that calculates the figures said Wednesday.