Lake Wylie News

Volunteer emergency responders get their time in front of decision-makers this week, just ahead of a county move that could dictate how they'll operate.

Experts commissioned by the operator of a Japanese nuclear plant that faces possible closure because of a suspected active seismic fault say a decision should wait, citing insufficient data.

The Post and Courier reports she donated 16 boxes of materials last year and college archivists recently finished cataloging the items.

Mike and Brenda Peters live in Steele Creek on Lake Wylie, near The Palisades. They've been involved with Lake Wylie Covekeepers, so they know a problem on the lake when they see one.

Backers of a new Lake Wylie park plan haven't gotten the results they want after presenting their case to the county.

Tega Cay City Council members met with state officials to address an ongoing problem - sewage spilling into Lake Wylie.

Authorities say a 15-year-old boy attacked an 80-year-old woman after she visited her husband's grave in Mullins.

Santee Cooper has reached an agreement with 20 independent electric cooperatives to provide them electricity for the next 45 years.

Officials are working to fix a pump at the Catawba Nuclear Station that has leaked more than 100 gallons of water with traces of tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen, according to federal regulators.

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Investigators say a man stabbed to death last weekend in Union County was killed by a group of people looking for a fight and wasn't the intended target of the attack.

A woman who authorities say killed her two young children and seriously injured her husband crashed her pickup into a tree so hard the roots came out of the ground.

The government of Congo says more than 20 people have died in a collapse at a bush mine in the region of Masisi in North Kivu province.

State Rep. Ted Vick told an officer arresting him for driving under the influence that he was not intoxicated and couldn't believe he was being put in handcuffs in the Statehouse garage.

Federal regulators say more than 100 gallons of water, with traces of a radioactive hydrogen isotope, have leaked at the Catawba Nuclear Station.

Water with traces of a radioactive hydrogen isotope leaked at a nuclear power plant in South Carolina, but the level of tritium in the water is well below limits that would make it dangerous to drink, federal regulators said.

The Civil Aviation Administration said no planes were in actual danger Wednesday but gave no details on the specific threats.

"Thursday night was an obstacle course trying to maneuver around the floating debris," said co-organizer Erwin Gaston of the weekly Thursday Night Tournament Trail on Lake Wylie.

Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman says Tehran's nuclear negotiator is seeking a "constructive" response from the European Union's top diplomat in upcoming talks aimed at possibly restarting wider dialogue with the U.S. and other world powers.

Demolition on the former Wher-rena Boatland building on Blucher Circle began last week.