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August 3, 2016

Boy, 12, dies in accidental shooting in South Carolina

Authorities say a 12-year-old boy has died after being accidentally shot at a Florence County home.

August 2, 2016

Officer's attorneys seek expanded questioning in shooting

Defense attorneys for a former South Carolina police officer accused in the shooting death of a black motorist who was running away have filed a motion seeking more thorough questioning of potential jurors.

July 30, 2016

Woman who vanished from nursing home was killed by alligator, authorities say

A 90-year-old woman who was found dead in a South Carolina pond after disappearing from her assisted living home was killed by an alligator, officials said Wednesday.

July 28, 2016

Police: Woman seen in kidnapping video made incident up

Authorities say a South Carolina woman seen bound and gagged in a video sent to her mother made up the kidnapping incident and has been charged with filing a false police report.

July 28, 2016

Judge: Outside tests OK in black motorist shooting death

A South Carolina judge says an outside lab can analyze brain tissue of a black motorist shot and killed by a white police officer while running from a traffic stop.

July 27, 2016

Two South Carolina soldiers gunned down while protecting woman at bar

Two South Carolina soldiers were killed Sunday after trying to protect a woman at a bar that was being chased by the man charged in their deaths.

July 26, 2016

Police find woman who was shown gagged, bound in video

Police say a missing woman was found unconscious and tied up in a South Carolina motel after someone sent her mother video of her daughter gagged, bound and crying.

July 26, 2016

Prosecutors: Roof headed to Tennessee after church shootings

Federal prosecutors say that the man charged in the Charleston church shootings used the internet to scope out Emanuel AME church and was trying get away to Nashville, Tennessee, when he was arrested.

July 25, 2016

2 missing, 6 rescued after Lake Moultrie accident

Authorities in South Carolina say two men are missing in the waters of Lake Moultrie after eight people were tossed into the lake in a weekend accident.

July 25, 2016

GPS leads police to man wanted in South Carolina homicides

Police in South Carolina say they were able to find a man wanted in a double homicide because he was wearing a GPS device after an earlier burglary conviction.