Liberty News

The S.C. Book Festival will run from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center, 1101 Lincoln St.

Brandon Cobb of Greenwood, S.C., weighed a five-bass limit totaling 17 pounds, 5 ounces Saturday to win the Bass Fishing League Savannah River Division tournament on Lake Hartwell.

Susan Hendricks, front right, listens to a psychologist testify about her mental condition before she is sentenced to life in prison on Friday, April 26, 2013, in Pickens, S.C. Hendricks pleaded guilty but mentally ill to killing four family members in October 2011 in Liberty, S.C. Hendricks, 49, accepted a life sentence in a plea bargain with ... (more)

A South Carolina woman admits she killed four members of her family but was mentally ill at the time she gunned down her two sons, her ex-husband and her stepmother.

Baptist Easley Hospital honored Lori Carnsew, MD, as the Cam Underhill Practicing Excellence Physician of the Year for 2012.

Susan Hendricks, a Liberty mother charged with murdering her two sons, former husband and stepmother in a quadruple homicide, will return to court in Pickens on Friday, prosecutors said.

The first phase of an emergency services training center that will allow firefighters, law enforcement officers and others to receive training closer to home has officially opened in Pickens County and could lead to lower insurance rates for property owners.

Baptist Easley Hospital honored Lori Carnsew, MD, as the Cam Underhill Practicing Excellence Physician of the Year for 2012.