South Carolina police officer dodges bullets after traffic stop

A 71-year-old Black man in South Carolina was embarrassed and feared for his life when a police officer looking for teens who might have been breaking into cars held him outside naked and at gunpoint after he peeked out his door to check on the disturbance, the man said in a lawsuit. Body camera video of the June 2019 encounter in Rock Hill shows Officer Vincent Mentesana cursing at Jethro DeVane and telling him not to close the door.

A South Carolina man accused of setting his girlfriend on fire has turned himself in after deputies issued a warrant for his arrest. Larry Dean Brown, Jr., 28, allegedly assaulted his girlfriend and poured gasoline on her before setting her on fire.

Rep.-elect Nancy Mace, the first woman to graduate from The Citadel military college, still suffers lingering effects from a serious bout of coronavirus this summer and cautions others to take the disease seriously.

A North Carolina police officer was recovering Saturday night after being shot while on duty, becoming the fourth officer shot in the Charlotte area in a little more than a week, according to reports. Cpl.

South Carolina on Friday recorded more than 3,600 new cases of the novel coronavirus, according to official estimates.  With an estimated 3,648 new cases, that state has officially set a new record for the most cases reported in a single day, according to data from the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control. South Carolina on Friday recorded more than 3,600 new cases of the novel coronavirus, according to official estimates.

A North Carolina police officer was shot and killed and another officer was wounded Wednesday night in a shootout with a suspect who was also killed at the scene, according to reports. The gunfire happened in Concord, a city of about 79,000 residents, about 27 miles northeast of downtown Charlotte.

Ruston Kelly celebrated his two-year sobriety anniversary following his recent split from Kacey Musgraves.“I’m two years clean today. Happy and grateful and very very very lucky,” the 32-year-old South Carolina native wrote via Instagram on Tuesday, December 15.

As long as the pizza shows up, it doesn’t matter who brings it. A police officer in California literally went the extra mile to help his community.

It’s going to be hard to top this experience. A North Dakota hunter was on his first hunt for bighorn sheep when he shot a ram that will likely set a new state record.

Forty defendants – ranging in age from 21 to 62 -- face a 147-count indictment in what federal authorities on Thursday called “the largest federal racketeering case in South Carolina history,” according to a report. Charges brought by a federal grand jury against the defendants include murder, kidnapping, firearms distribution and drug trafficking, the office of U.S.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will serve as co-chair for President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration next month.  Biden’s transition team announced Whitmer’s name on Monday alongside House Majority Whip James Clyburn, D-S.C., Reps.

Southern Charm faced the not-so-charming history of Charleston, South Carolina, and its residents this week in an exceptionally real episode of reality TV.

A serial bank robber dubbed the “Too Tall Bandit” is being sought by the FBI for 16 bank robberies in North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee dating back to 2009. According to the FBI, the suspect is a white male, possibly with brown eyes, and between 6 feet, 2 inches and 6 feet, 6 inches tall and weighs between 210 and 250 pounds.

Jay Cutler had the internet in a tizzy when he enjoyed “oysters and wine” with former Very Cavallari star, Shannon Ford. On November 28, the former Chicago Bears quarterback, 37, shared a video to Instagram of himself with Ford and Mark “Chuy” Block at 167 Raw; a fish market and oyster bar in Charleston, South Carolina.

South Carolina prison officials say they have to delay an execution scheduled for Friday because they won't be able to obtain the necessary lethal injection drugs. An attorney for the state Department of Corrections wrote in a letter to the South Carolina Supreme Court last week that the agency cannot carry out the execution of Richard Bernard Moore due to the lack of drugs, which it has not had stocked since 2013.The Associated Press obtained a copy of the letter.

When Jay Cutler took on some “oysters and wine” at 167 Raw, a fish market and oyster bar in Charleston, South Carolina, he wasn’t alone. Joining the former Chicago Bears quarterback for this Nov.

A South Carolina town has been left without a police force to patrol its population of roughly 2,000 people, according to a report. Lexington County’s small town of Pine Ridge typically boasts a police force made up of a maximum of three full-time officers plus part-time police department personnel.