Dorchester County News

Police are looking for suspects in two bank robberies that occurred in Dorchester County Friday.

It's been 21 months since the pastor of the Bethel AME Church was put on trial, charged with trying to burn his church to the ground.

An 18-year-old man accused of killing a woman in the parking lot of a golf course in Dorchester County has pleaded guilty as he was about to go on trial.

Prosecutors filed for the death penalty Wednesday against accused triple murderer Anthony Sanders in the shootings of a mother and two of her children at a Dorchester Road apartment complex.

Two incumbents are competing with five newcomers for three open school board seats in Dorchester District 2, one of the state's fastest-growing school districts, and Berkeley County candidates have another ...

Annette Young in November. Jeff Young turned in a letter of resignation Monday, Dorchester County Democratic Party Chairman Steve Yeomans said.

Jonathan G. Coburn, 18, entered his plea in front of Circuit Judge Paul Burch for the Nov.

The Cathedral of Praise, and more than 100 nearby acres zoned for light industries and business, are now in North Charleston.

Shantell DeVore Miller used to have strong objections to capital punishment. She even wrote a paper explaining her position while in community college a few years ago.

Many of the thousands of coastal newcomers are "clueless" about hurricane season and the importance of having an evacuation plan, said the director of the Dorchester County Emergency Services Department.

Berkeley County residents could end up footing an additional $1.2 million annual bill if the state Supreme Court rules against the school district in a dispute with the S.C. Department of Revenue.

The Dorchester County Sheriff's Office says an 18-year-old Preston man has been charged with stealing copper ground wire from electric poles.

Former newspaper publisher Bill Collins has enough signatures to run for the state Senate, if all the signatures are valid.

State Sen. Randy Scott appeared in court again Tuesday to get his driver's license back after being arrested on a DUI charge in April.

The district plans to spend more than $2 million to upgrade five schools. "This is long overdue," School Board Chairman Kenneth Jenkins said after a unanimous vote last week.

Caleb Horner is a sous chef at Eclectic Chef in Summerville. He was working in restaurant kitchens to earn his way through college when he discovered that what he really wanted was to work in kitchens.

The fight for a Summerville-area state senate seat is heating up. Former newspaper publisher Bill Collins sent out a stinging e-mail Monday blasting former state senator and current Republican nominee Mike Rose ...

The Highway Patrol went to investigate an accident with injuries on Beverley Drive in Dorchester County early this morning, the agency's Web site reported.

A class-action settlement hashed out between victims of sexual abuse and the Catholic Diocese of Charleston over the course of three years has prompted more acrimony and lawsuits, even after the diocese has ...

The S.C. Department of Corrections was investigating an apparent inmate suicide at Lieber Correctional Institution, a maximum-security facility in this Dorchester County town near Interstate 26, the agency ...