Dorchester News

A grant from the Rural Infrastructure Authority means Dorchester County will be able to bring water to the Harleyville area.

You could feel it in the air. The cautious optimism that characterized South Carolina Democrats' anxiety over the prospect of Elizabeth Colbert Busch being elected to Congress was gone.

Curios are the charm of this quirky town, and its old waterworks is where a host of them end up.

A traffic accident on S.C. Highway 61 in Dorchester County has closed the road in both directions, the Dorchester County Sheriff's Office said.

When Beech Hill Elementary School teacher Jennifer Fusco was named Dorchester District 2 Teacher of the Year Thursday, it made many wonder what is going on at the school.

The S.C. Supreme Court has reprimanded a former Dorchester County magistrate for various infractions, including a self-reported incident in which the judge decreased a criminal defendant's bond to $10 and then paid it himself.

Bethany Guyton Martinelli, 37, was arrested Friday by the U.S. Marshals, Dorchester County Sheriff's Office and Summerville Police Department in the Wal-Mart parking lot in Summerville.

The South Carolina State Transport Police held a ceremony today to recognize its top employees for 2012.

In the final days of the campaign, Elizabeth Colbert Busch is crisscrossing the First Congressional District, visiting at least six towns at 15 stops in four days and making additional unscheduled stops along the way on the "Elizabeth Means Business" bus tour.

In one of the more unusual final exams taken in college this semester, students from the American College of the Building Arts laid bricks on Friday at the Colonial Dorchester State Historic site to help tell the story of one of South Carolina's earliest colonial settlements.

A Dorchester woman is accused of feigning illnesses to bum free ambulance rides around the Lowcountry on the state's dime, authorities said.

Ask South Carolinians what's on their minds most lately, and they're likely to answer with one word: jobs.

Students from the American College of the Building Arts are helping South Carolina tell the story of one of its earliest colonial sites - Colonial Dorchester.

The Dorchester County Sheriff's Office says 51 year old Audrey Ferguson of the Dorchester community has called EMS at least 100 times in the last seven years.

Eight years ago, a spat between Oakbrook-area neighbors over kennelled hunting dogs spilled into to the courts, into the lap of Dorchester County Council and into loud, crowded public hearings.