Ladson News

The Sumter County Sheriff's Office arrested a man and a woman and seized over $12,000 in cash after they were caught speeding Friday morning on Interstate 95, a report said.

The Honor Flight program in South Carolina will reach a milestone today. Two chartered jets are scheduled to take off simultaneously from Columbia and Charleston airports carrying about 100 World War II veterans each to Washington, D.C., to see their national memorial.

Fair goers ride the Extreme as evening falls on the opening day of the Coastal Carolina Fair.

Mexican Ladson, 119 College Park Road Hours: 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Closed Wed. Entres: Moderate 553-8596 It would take you 80 hours of driving down the Pan-American Highway, through the drug-fueled border towns of Texas, the smog of Mexico City, past the black mole of Oaxaca and smiling women hawking garnachas and gauraches, beyond Aztec corn, steaming ...

The tentacles of a violent Mexican drug cartel have reached into the heart of the Lowcountry, according to a federal indictment announced Thursday.

The United States Attorney's Office announced on Thursday that 14 people were indicted for conspiring to distribute illegal drugs in South Carolina.

Pleas send items for Harley's column at least two weeks in advance. Fax to 843-706-3070 or e-mail to features@beaufortgazette.com. Area churches are celebrating fall by offering a feast for the soul as well as the senses through annual bazaars and festivals -- even a choir festival featuring singers from both sides of the Broad River.

A man with a gun robbed an Old Trolley Road restaurant as it was closing Tuesday night.

A military veteran threatened Dorchester County sheriff's deputies with a grenade last Thursday after they were dispatched to his Ladson apartment for a possible hostage situation, authorities said.

Force Protection plans to reduce its work force by 10 percent, or about 120 workers, as it copes with a decline in orders for military vehicles over the past year.

An armored vehicle maker in South Carolina will lay off 120 workers to try to save $40 million a year.

Force Protection plans to reduce its work force by 10 percent, or about 120 workers, as it copes with a decline in orders for military vehicles over the past year.

LADSON, S.C. Force Protection plans to reduce its work force by 10 percent, or about 120 workers, as it copes with a decline in orders for military vehicles over the past year.

Bomb blasts are leaving our troops with a new type of war injury, an injury sometimes hidden from the medical experts.

Police are on the lookout for the driver of a dark colored Ford Mustang that was involved in a hit and run accident Monday night at 9422 Highway 78 near the Ladson fairgrounds.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed a lawsuit against a former Orangeburg-based ambulance company, alleging it discriminated against an employee based on her religion.

Louis "Pro" Johnson, 83, died peacefully at home near Columbia, South Carolina, on Thursday, September 17, 2009, after a lengthy illness.

Construction and architectural firms are working hard in the Charleston market, as you'll see in the projects listed in this edition of Charleston Under Construction .

Federal agents say a Ladson man entered the Charleston Naval Weapons Station posing as a Navy Criminal Service Agent with a loaded firearm.

Published: Tuesday, September 8, 2009 at 11:34 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, September 8, 2009 at 11:34 a.m. Ray J. Morrow, 72, of Johns Island, S.C., entered into eternal rest on the evening of Sept.