Hilton Head Island News

It's going to be the same old Fourth of July on Hilton Head Island. With the economy in the shape it is in, that's a good thing.

Last week, Brandon Thiess resuscitated a boy aboard his boat, but a year ago, the boat captain was charged with assaulting a man and causing partial paralysis.

One of Bernie Madoffs victims in South Carolina said Monday the judge was right to sentence the admitted swindler to 150 years in prison today.

The Hilton Head Island Bridge Club held a special STaC week, allowing the winners to win silver points.

The USCB Lunch With Author series includes lunch, a half-hour talk by Dorothea Benton Frank, a Q&A period and book signing that all begins at noon Wednesday at the Sea Pines Country Club on Hilton Head Island.

Army National Guard Pvt. Trenton Benn has graduated from Basic Combat Training at Fort Sill, Lawton, Okla.

Citizens working overtime to improve their neighborhoods deserve total transparency from the government, especially when it goes against their impassioned plea for help.

An informational meeting about St. Mark's Academy will be at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Hospice Care of the Lowcountry conference room at 119 Palmetto Way in Bluffton.

A landscaping company stores piles of debris, stones and wood pallets on town-owned land next to the narrow, flood-prone side streets off Mathews Drive, just beyond Port Royal Plaza.

HILTON HEAD ISLAND a ' Bluffton High School principal Bob Anderson has seen some serious senior pranks in his career.

Ed Ellis remembers Hilton Head Island when the crowds were smaller and the roads were dustier.

Alexander Wattay's wife jokingly calls him the "flag police." He got the nickname because of his willingness to politely correct Hilton Head Island business owners and homeowners flying tattered or old flags and he offers to get them a new one.

Former Hilton Head Island Town Councilman Bill Mottel was awarded the governor's Order of the Palmetto on Tuesday, the state's highest civilian honor.

Here are the South Carolina schools that made Newsweek magazine's list of 1,480 top-performing public high schools in the nation: 12Academic Magnet, North Charleston 229Southside, Greenville 314Dutch Fork, Irmo 490Governor's School for Arts & Humanities, Greenville 718Wade Hampton, Greenville 797Mann, Greenville 854A.C. Flora, Columbia 905Woodruff, ...

Winners at the Hilton Head Island Bridge Club on June 1 were: Douglas and Barbara Johnson; Mary Francis Stahler and Judy Lang; Penny Ruckno and Jeri Brown.

My Classic Car , A Top Rated SPEED Program, Will Cover the Eighth Annual Motoring Festival.

Three Hilton Head Island juniors came away with singles titles at the 53rd annual Wachovia Palmetto Championships, a prestigious junior state tournament that wrapped up Friday in Belton and Anderson.

Daniel Rowe, a 35-year-old Tennessee resident, is heading back to the Volunteer State with a fish story that has a lot of bite.

The 246 students of Hilton Head Island High School's Class of 2009 graduated Wednesday in the stadium.

The Beaufort County Sheriff's Office is searching for a man who has repeatedly exposed himself to women and children walking along a Hilton Head Island beach.