Williams News

Retired Organizations Awarded $200.00 Mini-Grant Pictured from left to right: Jean Robinson, Eartha Tucker, Helen Bodison, Lula Smalls, Lillie Brown, Margaret Roberts, Sallie Stephens, Novice Manigualt, Celia Price, Esther Black, Gloristine Williams, Willie Rabb, Eliza Williams, Vera Bodison, Mary Ellison.

The South Carolina Department of Commerce and Williamsburg County recently announced that The Truss Company, Inc., will locate its new facility in Williamsburg County.

Harvest Hope Food Bank got a bit more hopeful Friday with the donation of 30 boxes of canned goods and the addition of two refrigerated trucks.

Colleton NAACP president urges unity Colleton NAACP President Reverend Raleigh Williams voiced appreciation for all ministers throughout Colleton County that have offered counseling and support to victims, victim families, alleged suspects families, community members and schoolchildren.

THE founder of failed phone company One.Tel today won a court battle against Australia's securities watchdog.

Volunteers are needed Nov. 23 when The Link will set up all of the food in the Seafarer Center in Port Royal.

A South Carolina man has been arrested in the death of his mother who was unresponsive when he brought her to a hospital covered in open sores - some of them with maggots inside.

Two University of South Carolina students have been named finalists for the Rhodes scholarship .

The renovated Cotton Factory in downtown Rock Hill has earned more national acclaim, this time from the National Housing & Rehabilitation Association.

The National Council of Negro Women in Darlington County is honoring exemplary citizens from throughout the county who have made significant contributions in education, politics, business, religion, arts, athletics, law enforcement, medicine, media/journalism and the civic community.

Enhancing middle school students' access to a quality educational experience is a priority for Colleton County School Superintendent Leila Williams.

Western Cape taxpayers will have to pay almost R50 000 for lawyers used by the province in the court case that trade union Cosatu brought against Premier Helen Zille over her all-male cabinet.

A Columbia attorney and former state and federal prosecutor has entered the race to be South Carolina's next attorney general.

A 36-year-old Air Force airman from South Carolina is getting the Bronze Star, Purple Heart and Combat Action Medal after being wounded by a land mine in Afghanistan.

A South Carolina man has been sentenced in the shooting death of a teenager killed while hunting in the woods.

While Gary and Kelly Williams built a devoted following at the Sea Shack on Hilton Head Island for 13 years, their three fun-loving daughters reluctantly learned all about the food business.

Richard Gerald Williams, Sr., husband of Mary Tallualah Newsome Williams, passed away on Saturday, September 6, 2009, at Carolinas Hospital System in Florence.

Helping Out highlights some of the many charitable events and activities going on in the Charleston area.

On Saturday August 29, 2009 the combined units of the Mary B. Thomas Girls Youth Circle and councils of the Knights of Pythagoras held their first Family and Friends Fun Day in Round 0. About 100 people enjoyed water slides, horseshoes, basketball, bingo, jump castles, and unlimited food.

The Victorian Labor MP cleared of rape has taken a month's sick leave as the parliament wrangles over whether prosecutors broke parliamentary rules in his case.