Walterboro News

A thunderstorm warning for portions of the tricounty that was issued earlier today has been canceled, but storms are still possible later tonight, according to the National Weather Service.

Two players in the vast pipeline of fake goods that flow into the United States from China are sitting in the Colleton County jail, according to federal investigators.

A celebration on Saturday features flight demonstrations as well as flights for kids and recognition of those who helped establish the airport and helped it prosper.

A bus carrying a high school band from Ohio had crashed near a Walterboro exit on I-95.

There are vacation destinations and then there are those other places; the unusual, offbeat and just plain wacky.

The North Carolina Highway Patrol is joining five other state police agencies this weekend in an effort to keep motorists safe along U.S. 15. Operation Border to Border is a coordinated traffic safety enforcement initiative targeting approximately 791 miles of U.S. 15, which originates in Walterboro, S.C., and ends in Corning, N.Y. The highway is a ... (more)

After bringing rains, heavy winds and even tornadoes to parts of Florida, Tropical Storm Andrea moved quickly across south Georgia and was speeding through the Carolinas early Friday, promising sloppy commutes and waterlogged vacation getaways through the beginning of the weekend.

Derrec Becker with the South Carolina Emergency Management Division said the storm was near Walterboro at 6 a.m. Friday, moving to the northeast at nearly 30 mph.

HOLMAN, Frances Inabinet, 85, of Isle of Palms, a teacher and widow of Theo M. Holman, died Thursday.

A man was shot several times inside a mobile home in Colleton County near Walterboro this afternoon, according to a source at the scene.

South Carolina Electric & Gas Co. says it will close two coal-powered generating stations near Walterboro by the end of the year.

South Carolina Electric & Gas Co. will shut down two coal-fired electric generating units at its Canadys Station power plant near Walterboro by year's end, four years ahead of schedule.

DUFFY, Mary Ellen, 68, of Charleston, a retired guidance counselor with James Island High School, Spanish teacher and former nun, died Monday.

In the aftermath of an interstate bus crash Sunday in South Carolina, two high school marching bands forged a special bond.

A coach bus carrying 53 people drove off the road on Interstate 95 near Walterboro on Sunday morning, killing the driver and injuring two others, according to S.C. Highway Patrol.

Commons resident Jean Starke poses with Miss Walterboro Teen, Gracen Gantt of Greenwood, at the health fair staged Thursday morning on the Wesley Commons campus.

Walterboro voters re-elected City Councilman Tom Lohr and also elected James Broderick and Jimmy Syfrett, according to the Waterboro Municipal Election Commission.

Residents from Charleston to Mount Pleasant to Goose Creek to Walterboro have reported issues with their service via social media since about 1 p.m. "Due to a fiber cable cut at the facilities of one of Comcast's service providers outside Charleston, customers are currently experiencing an outage," Shannon Dulin, a company spokeswoman, said in a ... (more)

During their May 23 meeting, the Barnwell District 45 School Board approved the hiring of Craig Hart, an assistant principal at Barnwell Primary, as the new middle school principal.

Two and half years ago it was an area near Columbia Metropolitan Airport cluttered with trash.