A former Latta High School band director facing criminal charges of sexual conduct with a minor had his bond temporarily revoked after authorities said he continued to have sex with one of the victims.WBTW-TV reports that 28-year-old Tyler Hutto will get out of jail once a house arrest order is set up at his grandparents' house. The new order bans Hutto from computers and cell phones.A police offi...

A woman injured when a wall collapsed at a high school football game is suing Union County.The Union Daily Times reports Princess T. Johnson filed her lawsuit last week saying she suffered permanent physical and mental pain and lost her enjoyment of life after part of a retaining wall collapsed during a Union County High School football game in November 2009.The nearly 50-year-old wall crumbled wh...

Movie stars and athletes will participate in a charity basketball game Saturday afternoon at Lower Richland High School. Tipoff for the game between The Harlem Legends vs. The Celebrity All-Stars is at 2 p.m. Participants include Darrin Henson, an actor and choreographer; Isaiah Mustafa, also know as the Old Spice Man; Lamman Rucker from “Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married;” and Ro...

SUMTER, S.C. (AP) – Authorities in Sumter County say two adults and two children were injured when the truck they were riding in crashed into a radio station as sheriff's deputies were pursuing the driver for failing to stop. WIS-TV in Columbia reported that Sheriff Anthony Dennis said deputies attempted to stop vehicle after they saw it driving erratically. He said the driver refused to pull...

South Carolina senators have set up a potential fight with Gov. Nikki Haley over how the state pays for public television.The GOP-controlled Senate on Thursday approved a measure with 25-18 vote that uses general taxpayer cash to pay for South Carolina ETV. It's part of the debate over the state's $5.8 billion spending plan for the next fiscal year.The Republican governor had told legislators she ...

Authorities say a man who kidnapped his former girlfriend has been shot to death in a shootout that also involved her father and her roommate.Saluda County Sheriff Jason Booth told WIS-TV that John Clark went to his ex-girlfriend's house Saturday night even though she had a restraining order against him and put a gun to her head.Investigators say the woman's roommate began firing a gun, but it app...

With her first 100 days behind her, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is renewing a push to streamline state government and put in place job-training measures to encourage people to get back to work.In an interview with The Associated Press Wednesday, Haley ticked off several early accomplishments: passing legislation that put more House and Senate votes on the record; taking taxpayer cash away from...

The WIS-10 evening anchor has been off the air for a few weeks and viewers have been inquiring about her absence. On Wednesday, Gatson and her husband Dwayne announced on WIS that they have adopted a baby boy. Aidan Kash Gatson is four months old. The Gatsons got the news about Aidan on March 21, which happened to also be Gatson’s birthday. That night, she danced on stage with Prince. Accordi...

Pulitzer Prize-winning "Lonesome Dove" author Larry McMurtry will receive the University of South Carolina's Cooper Medal.McMurtry and his frequent collaborator Diana Ossana will attend a fund-raising dinner for the Thomas Cooper Society on Thursday. The two won Golden Globe and Academy Award honors for their screenplay adaptation of "Brokeback Mountain."McMurtry also will meet with students durin...

An experienced broadcast executive who used to play football for the University of South Carolina has been named the new president and general manager of WYFF-TV in Greenville.Hearst Television Inc. announced John R. Soapes' new job Wednesday. He takes over for Michael J. Hayes, who was recently named president and general manager of WTAE-TV in Pittsburgh.Soapes spent the past 10 years as the gene...

Celebrity chef Giada De Laurentiis is scheduled to spotlight a Rock Hill schools program that gets food to hungry children on the “Today” show this week, according to the district.The segment, which focuses on the “Back the Pack” program, is expected to air between 7 and 9 a.m. Thursday on NBC.“As of this moment, it's scheduled,” Rock Hill schools spokesw...

Authorities say three girls selling lemonade in central Georgia to raise money for a hospitalized toddler were robbed of about $150 at their stand.Houston County Sheriff's Lt. Jon Holland said Monday that a man and woman approached the girls Saturday and the man snatched the money jar from a 13-year-old girl.Authorities told WMAZ-TV that a 21-year-old woman was subsequently arrested and deputies a...

Jim Furk and host of other professional golfers and celebrities are scheduled to attend the 17th annual Hootie & The Blowfish Monday After the Masters Celebrity Pro-Am today in North Myrtle Beach.Furyk will be joined at the Barefoot Resort Dye Club by fellow pros John Daly, Woody Austin, Chris DiMarco, Ken Duke, Tommy Gainey, D.J. Trahan, Kyle Thompson, Conway native Kristy McPherson and former My...

An Elgin mother and her boyfriend are in jail after her 22-month-old son escaped from their house Sunday for the second time in eight days.Jacklyn Marie Jacobson, the 25-year-old mother, and her boyfriend, 21-year-old Jose Gloria, both of Ashley Creek Drive in Elgin are in the Kershaw County Detention Center on charges of unlawful neglect of a child, Kershaw County Sheriff Jim Matthews said. The b...

A gunman opened fire at an elementary school in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday and at least 13 people were killed, including the shooter.It was not clear whether the gunman, who is believed to be a former student at the school, shot himself or was killed by police.At least 20 people, including children, were wounded in the shooting at the school for students aged 10 to 15, fire department spokesman Ev...

Authorities say an Orangeburg man has been charged with murder in the shooting death of his girlfriend.Orangeburg County deputies say 23-year-old Malcolm Curry was arrested Friday night after officers were called to his home and found 21-year-old Lynette Glover shot to death.Curry's aunt told WIS-TV that the couple had been dating since high school. Sonovia Guinyard says her nephew told her the sh...

The shopping public will get its first glimpse of the new Tanger Outlet Center 1 in greater Bluffton this morning.The center – and 32 of its 40-plus shops and restaurants -- will open at 10 a.m. after a year-long, $50 million redevelopment on Fording Island Road.Tanger officials say more than 30 – including adidas, Kenneth Cole, Under Armour, DKNY Donna Karan New York, and Vince Camuto &...

An inactive lifestyle, watching TV and eating too many fatty foods are all to blame for many Americans being overweight and obese.We may have to add religion to that list.A study finds that young adults who regularly attend religious activities may be more prone to obesity by middle age than their nonreligious peers.Jell-O salad, we’re looking at you.The study included 2,433 younger men and w...

Syria's Cabinet resigned Tuesday to help quell a wave of popular fury that erupted more than a week ago and is now threatening President Bashar Assad's 11-year rule in one of the most authoritarian and closed-off nations in the Middle East.Assad, whose family has controlled Syria for four decades, is trying to calm the growing dissent with a string of concessions. He is expected to address the nat...

Aflac has fired Gilbert Gottfried, the comedian who is the voice of the insurer’s quacking duck in U.S. television commercials.Gottfried, who has voiced the duck in numerous commercials since 2000, posted a string of mocking jokes about the earthquake and tsunami in Japan on Twitter over the weekend. “I just split up with my girlfriend, but like the Japanese say, ‘(Thereȁ...

David Broder, one of the nation's premier political reporters for decades, was a curious mix of old and new.He combined unglamorous shoe-leather reporting with a knack for detecting trends ahead of his competitors. A rumpled dresser with thick glasses and a shirt pocket full of pens and pencils, he was constantly in demand by good-looking TV news hosts who craved the insights and knowledge he had ...

A fire at a farmhouse killed seven children while their mother was in a barn milking cows and their father was taking a nap in a milk delivery truck, a state trooper said Wednesday.A 3-year-old girl survived Tuesday night's blaze. Those who perished ranged in age from 7 months to 11 years.The children's father had left the two-story home, on a working farm in dairy country not far from the state c...

It's time to get out the forks and pop the corks as the annual Charleston Wine and Food Festival opens for a sixth season.Several festival events are set for Thursday with opening ceremonies on Friday in Charleston's Marion Square.The main attraction at the festival is the Culinary Village where visitors can attend cooking demonstrations and try samples of food and wine at more than 90 booths.Ther...

Gas prices are continuing to rise in South Carolina and across the nation even as oil prices are falling amid signs the disruption to exports from Libya is easing. Gas prices in Columbia rose 26 cents Monday from a week ago and 23 cents statewide, according to AAA. The average price of a gallon of regular unleaded in the U.S. rose 8 cents over the weekend to about $3.37. On Monday, oil dropped on ...

The 1991 rape and stabbing death of 17-year-old Crystal Faye Todd of Conway has made headlines, been the subject of books and featured on dozens of television shows.The case returns to the national spotlight again Monday when it will be featured on Investigation Discovery's show "Stolen Voices, Buried Secrets." The episode is called 'Killer Instinct' and features several area residents who were in...

With residents shouting "Free, free Libya," anti-government rebels who control this battle-scarred city nearest to the capital deployed tanks and anti-aircraft weapons Sunday to brace for an attack by troops loyal to Moammar Gadhafi. The Obama administration offered "any type of assistance" to Libyans seeking to oust the longtime leader.Politicians in the opposition stronghold of Benghazi set up t...

The siblings sat huddled together Wednesday on sodden grass, staring at smoldering remains of the office tower that collapsed with their mother inside when a powerful earthquake tore apart one of New Zealand's largest cities.There had been no word from Donna Manning since her workplace came crumbling down Tuesday during a magnitude-6.3 quake that has killed at least 75 people and left some 300 mis...

Police have charged a 13-year-old boy in connection with a fire that caused nearly $5,000 worth of damage to a home in Goose Creek.WCSC-TV reports that Goose Creek police charged the boy with third-degree arson for the Friday house fire.Authorities say the boy was playing at the back of the house with other boys and took out a lighter and set the grass on fire.Detectives say the other boys didn't ...

After anti-government unrest spread to the Libyan capital and protesters seized military bases and weapons Sunday, Moammar Gadhafi's son went on state television to proclaim that his father remained in charge with the army's backing and would "fight until the last man, the last woman, the last bullet."Seif al-Islam Gadhafi, in the regime's first comments on the six days of demonstrations, warned t...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking for an Aiken man wanted for producing, distributing and possessing child pornography.The U.S. Attorney's Office in Columbia said that David Lee Sheffield, 47, faces all three charges in a three-count indictment. An arrest warrant has been issued for him, but his whereabouts are unknown.Sheffield is described as a standing 5 feet, 11 inches tall and we...