Pat Robertson has made many controversial statements over the years, such as suggesting that the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks were God's punishment for the U.S. tolerating abortion and homosexuality. His critics are usually those on the politically opposite spectrum of the conservative Christian leader, or outside the Christian faith. But the television evangelist's most recent statements...

Union County officials are considering allowing non-violent inmates to be released from jail if they pay for electronic monitoring.WSPA-TV in Spartanburg reported ( http://bit.ly/piZUUO) Sheriff David Taylor says the idea would help with jail crowding.Union County's jail is designed to hold 40 inmates. Taylor says it has contained 60 or more inmates on most days. He says it costs the county about ...

The South Carolina Highway Patrol is investigating a wreck in Anderson County that killed three people and injured a fourth.WYFF-TV reported (http://bit.ly/qvyrRM) that troopers say the car hit a tree and caught fire just after midnight Sunday.Deputy Coroner Charlie Boseman says three people were pronounced dead at the scene. Those killed were a 26-year-old man, a woman and a small child.Boseman s...

A Greenville middle school gym teacher has been recognized for saving a 13-year-old student who was choking on a bottle cap.WSPA-TV reports ( http://bit.ly/oyzsEe) that Berea Middle School coach Paula Wolfe received special recognition at a faculty meeting Wednesday.Trenton Sullivan says Wolfe saved his life Friday after he inhaled his water bottle cap.The eighth-grader was sitting on the gym's bl...

Gaffney officials are requiring dog owners to build a 6-foot-high kennel for each dog they keep outside.WSPA-TV reported ( http://bit.ly/ocXIau) that Gaffney City Council unanimously approved a local law Tuesday that requires any owner of three or more dogs kept outside to keep each in a kennel.City administrator James Taylor says the ordinance addresses neighbor complaints about dogs running loos...

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The State Law Enforcement Division says it has about 4,500 cases from across South Carolina waiting for lab analysis.WSPA-TV in Spartanburg reported (http://bit.ly/oUAYQm) that the state police agency gets about 350 cases each month. But Maj. Todd Huey says the lab can process only about 200 cases each month.SLED has lost 30 employees because of budget cuts over the past three years.Chief Mark Kee...

Mike Flanagan, a former Cy Young winner and part of the Baltimore Orioles' 1983 World Series championship team, has died. He was 59.Authorities found a body outside Flanagan's home in Monkton, Md., on Wednesday afternoon. Hours later, the Orioles confirmed that Flanagan - who served the team as a pitcher, front office executive and television broadcaster - was dead."I am so sorry to hear about Mik...

Even as images of gleeful rebels overrunning Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's main military compound saturated television screens Tuesday, questions still loomed over Gadhafi's whereabouts, the status of pro-regime holdouts and NATO's role in the effort to secure the country. Early Wednesday, Gadhafi, speaking on a local Tripoli radio station, which was reported by Al-Orouba television and Reut...

Euphoric Libyan rebels raced into the capital Tripoli on Sunday and moved close to center with little resistance as Moammar Gadhafi's defenses collapsed and his regime appeared to be crumbling fast.Associated Press reporters with the rebels said they moved easily from the western outskirts into the regime stronghold in a dramatic turning of the tides in the 6-month-old Libyan civil war. A rebel le...

Abbeville County authorities say a stolen car being chased by police crashed into a sport utility vehicle, killing a 55-year-old woman and exposing a mobile methamphetamine lab.WYFF-TV reports ( http://bit.ly/olISdT) Gerald Russell Gaines is charged with felony driving under the influence, possession of a stolen vehicle and manufacturing meth. Passenger Richey Ann Hodges is also charged with manuf...

Chinese basketball fans slammed a military team Friday for their part in an on-court brawl with visiting American players during a match that was supposed to promote goodwill during U.S. Vice President Joe Biden's visit.Video footage of the fighting between the Georgetown University men's basketball team and the Bayi Rockets, the army's Chinese Basketball Association team, on Thursday night in Bei...

Prosecutors say a Greenville County man remains out on bond despite six drunken driving arrests in northwestern South Carolina over the past year.WYFF-TV reports ( http://bit.ly/qz3QNF) all of the charges are considered Warren Brooks' first offense because none have been resolved in court.Solicitor Walt Wilkins calls it one of the most outrageous cases he's seen.Brooks' first driving under the inf...

Assailants armed with heavy weapons, guns and explosives launched three attacks in quick succession in southern Israel near the border with Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on Thursday, killing at least five people and wounding about a dozen more, officials said.The rare violence in that part of the country targeted a passenger bus, a military patrol and a private car, officials said.Channel 10 TV reported...

Authorities say the Charlotte apartment of a Carolina Panthers football player was hit by burglars while he was away at the NFL team's training camp.Charlotte-Mecklenburg police are investigating a Monday evening burglary at the home of Panthers defensive tackle Corey Irvin.Officers say they responded to a neighbor's call about a suspicious vehicle at an apartment complex and talked to a witness w...

Authorities say Facebook helped catch a suspected thief, after the South Carolina victim posted surveillance pictures of the crime.WIS-TV reports Tuesday ( http://bit.ly/obEoLp) that Sam Kanipe's camera filmed a man stealing a flat-screen TV from his home Aug. 10. He says the thief looked into the camera as he walked into his home. Another frame shows the thief leaving with the TV.Kanipe says his ...

Actor Gary Sinise will serve as grand marshal for a parade next month celebrating Beaufort's 300th birthday.The Beaufort Gazette reports (http://bit.ly/rcLV6r) the parade on Sept. 17 is one of many events marking Beaufort's tri-centennial.Sinise played Lt. Dan in the film "Forrest Gump" and now is regularly seen in the television show "CSI-New York."The parade coincides with the second annual Lt. ...

An Oconee woman is being treated after she was bitten by a rabid skunk at her home.WYFF-TV reported ( http://bit.ly/nLnAFI) the woman was bitten by a skunk that came out from under a car at her home in Long Creek and bit her on the leg.The Department of Health and Environmental Control reported the animal tested positive for rabies.DHEC's Sue Ferguson says the woman is getting shots for rabies, wh...

An Iranian woman blinded and disfigured by a man who threw acid into her face stood above her attacker Sunday in a hospital operating room as a doctor was about to put several drops of acid in one of his eyes in court-ordered retribution.The man waited on his knees and wept."What do you want to do now?" the doctor asked the 34-year-old woman, whose own face was severely disfigured in the 2004 atta...

A man who police say is responsible for 40 home burglaries is behind bars.Dantwan Wilson, 20, has been charged with first-degree burglary, second-degree burglary, two counts of larceny and criminal conspiracy, according to records at the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center. His bond was set at $200,000.Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said Wilson burglarized homes in Columbia, Forest Acres and other ...

Fairfield County deputies say eight gang members waiting in a parking lot to ambush a drug dealer decided to follow the owner of the store home and attack him instead.Investigators told WIS-TV ( http://bit.ly/psUUIO) that seven of the men were arrested over the past few days and an eighth is being sought on a murder charge.Deputies say the men waited for a drug dealer they planned on robbing in th...

Craig Melvin continues to climb the broadcast journalism ranks. On Wednesday morning, it was announced that he will be joining MSNBC.Melvin, a former WIS-10 anchor, left the local station in 2008 for WRC-TV in Washington, D.C. Like the cable network MSNBC, WRC is owned by NBC.In a June interview, Melvin, who has anchored the weekend edition of the “Today Show” and filled in on MSNBC,...

A powerful bomb tore into the heart of Norway on Friday, killing at least two people and injuring 15 as it ripped open buildings including the prime minister's office. Is was the deadliest bombing ever in Oslo, normally associated with the Nobel Peace Prize that is awarded there.Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg was working at home Friday and was unharmed, according to senior adviser Oivind Ostang.T...

The family of a 6-year-old girl bitten by a shark in North Carolina says the child is in good condition.A statement from the parents issued by Pitt County Memorial Hospital said the girl's mother was 10 feet away and witnessed the attack. The statement said the girl is in good spirits and commented: "I hate sharks. I like dolphins way better. "Hyde County officials said Wednesday that the child wa...

Authorities say a small aircraft crashed in Charleston County, killing two people.A spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration says the aircraft crashed about 6:15 p.m. Wednesday on the shore of Dewees Island, 20 miles northeast of Charleston. Kathleen Bergen says the vehicle was destroyed, but whether it was an airplane or homemade glider of some sort was unclear.WCSC-TV reports the two ...

ABC News says a reporter trying to question GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann was pushed and shoved by members of her camp after a campaign event in South Carolina.Network news senior vice president Jeffrey Schneider said reporter Brian Ross was shoved Tuesday as security tried to block him from the Minnesota congresswoman while he asked whether she had to miss votes because of migraines...

On the eve of NASA's historic, wheel-stopping end to the shuttle program, the four astronauts making the final journey said Wednesday they're starting to feel a rush of emotions."You know what? I really do feel like it's coming near the end," said the commander of the homeward-bound space shuttle Atlantis, Christopher Ferguson."It's going to be tough," Ferguson said in a series of TV interviews 24...

Rupert Murdoch accepted the resignations of The Wall Street Journal's publisher and the chief of his British operations on Friday as the once-defiant media mogul struggled to control an escalating phone hacking scandal, offering apologies to the public and the family of a murdered schoolgirl.The scandal has knocked billions off the value of Murdoch's News Corp., scuttled his ambitions to take cont...

A man accused of a break-in and robbing a couple at gunpoint has been arrested after fingerprints on one victim’s purse matched his.DaJuan Yaphet Minson, 19, was being sought for burglary and aggravated assault in connection with a Sunday incident on Decker Boulevard. A deputy patrolling the neighborhood heard apparent gunfire from the 1600 block and encountered two people running toward hi...

The primetime Emmy nominations as provided by The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences on Thursday morning.These are nominees for the 63rd Emmy Awards.For fullscreen viewing and other options, use the tools provided at the bottom of this document.