Myrtle Beach police are searching for a man who (dressed as a woman) robbed an Oak Street bank, said Capt. David Knipes.Click to Continue »

A man was charged Monday in connection to a 2008 bank robbery thanks to some old evidence.Click to Continue »

A state lawmaker says the state is taking over plans to complete Interstate 526 in Charleston County.Charleston Rep. Chip Limehouse says state officials are upset that county officials have been unable to decide how to complete the highway on James and Johns islands.Limehouse is a member of the State Infrastructure Bank which provides funding for some highway projects.The bank's board voted unanim...

Police in Rock Hill have arrested a man they say used a fake bomb to rob a bank.Forty-nine-year-old John Edward Burchfield Jr. of Rock Hill is charged with possession of a fake bomb and entering a bank with intent to steal.Police say a man entered the bank late Tuesday morning and threatened to detonate a bomb with a remote device.Lt. Brad Redfearn says the man left with an unknown amount of money...

After a customer backlash, Verizon Wireless on Friday dropped a plan to start charging $2 for every payment subscribers make over the phone or online with their credit or debit cards.In a statement on its website Friday, the company said "customer feedback" prompted the decision to drop the "convenience fee" it wanted to introduce on Jan. 15.Verizon wanted to steer people to electronic check payme...

An Irmo medical company ofice manager has been arrested and charged in the theft of more than $2 million.Irmo police arrested Chandra Miller Padgett and charged her with breach of trust with fraudulent intent over $10,000, a felony. Padgett, 43, of Pointe Overlook Drive, Chapin, worked as the office manager for Advanced Pain Therapies, 7921 Broad River Road. She is accused of using money belonging...

Local businesses are rallying together to raise money for the family of an Aiken police officer killed in the line of duty.The Aiken Standard reports ( http://bit.ly/v0un7a) that residents have lined up local merchants who will place collection jars in their businesses to raise donations for the family of Officer Scotty Richardson.The jars will be up for about a month, and then money will be donat...

A Colorado man who found $10,000 before boarding a flight in Las Vegas says he returned the money to the owner because he wanted to show his children it was "the right thing to do."Greenwood Village resident Mitch Gilbert told KUSA-TV he found two unmarked Caesar's Palace envelopes at the airport and realized there was money inside when he arrived home. The television station reported Monday ( htt...

Authorities say a Tampa Bay area man ordered a beer at a bar, left to rob a nearby bank then came back to finish his beer.The Pasco County Sheriff's Office says 52-year-old John Robin Whittle was arrested at the Hayloft Bar in Port Richey on Thursday afternoon. Deputies say he's the man who robbed a Wells-Fargo bank branch earlier, but not before stopping off at the Hayloft for a brew.A bartender ...

Bank of America agreed to pay $335 million to resolve allegations that its Countrywide unit engaged in a widespread pattern of discrimination against qualified African-American and Hispanic borrowers on home loans.The settlement with the U.S. Justice Department was filed Tuesday with the Central District court of California and is subject to court approval. The DOJ says it's the largest settlement...

SCBT Financial Corp. is merging with Peoples Bancorporation of the Upstate to create the sixth largest bank in South Carolina in terms of market share.The $28.4 million all-stock transaction will be the Columbia-based bank’s fourth acquisition in less than two years.“It really fills a hole for our company,” said Robert Hill, president and CEO of SCBT.The merger, which is expec...

Former York County Councilman Paul Lindemann has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to lying on a mortgage application.The Herald of Rock Hill reported ( http://bit.ly/vELNFc) the 32-year-old Lindermann was sentenced in U.S. District Court. Lindemann claimed a monthly income of nearly $36,000 to qualify for a loan of nearly $1 million from RBC Centura Bank. Prosecu...

A Simpsonville man has been charged with murder in the death of his wife, who was stabbed to death inside a Greenville County Walmart.Sheriff's office Master Deputy Jennings Autry says 47-year-old Avery L. Blandin is charged with murder in the death of 38-year-old Lilia Blandin. Lilia Blandin worked at a bank inside Walmart. She was taken to a hospital, where she died Saturday.Avery Blandin was ar...

A South Carolina woman has been arrested in the death of a Florida woman last week.Forty-year-old Patty Michelle White of York has been charged as a fugitive from justice after police in Jacksonville, Fla., called to say they thought White was in South Carolina.Police say 67-year-old Michele O'Dowd of Jacksonville was found dead under some Christmas presents in her apartment Friday after she faile...

David Winkles has been elected to another term as president of the South Carolina Farm Bureau.The organization said Winkles won the election this past weekend held among the bureau's 310 voting delegate farmers. This will be the Sumter County native's eighth two-year term.Winkles ran his family's soybean, corn and cotton farm for more than 30 years, and is a nationally recognized speaker about how...

For three decades, the Republican who won South Carolina's presidential primary has also won the GOP nomination.That record helps explain why Newt Gingrich, a self-described lover of history, is working more aggressively than any of his competitors to organize activists and volunteers ahead of the Jan. 21 primary, essentially pinning his candidacy on a state filled with Christian conservatives.His...

Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed a large statue of king Amenhotep III who ruled nearly 3,400 years ago and who was the grandfather of the famed boy-pharaoh Tutankhamun.The Supreme Council of Antiquities says the latest find was made at the king's funerary temple in the southern city of Luxor.Thursday's statement says the 44 feet (13.5 meter) tall statue is made of colored quartzite. It is co...

Sounds like there'll be some good eating at a Governor's Mansion after Saturday night's Atlantic Coast Conference championship game.South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley has bet some of her state's barbecue against a Smithfield ham put up by Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell on the outcome of the title matchup between Clemson and Virginia Tech at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, N.C.Haley is a Clemson gr...

The U.S. Treasury Department is investigating whether Bank of America, Wells Fargo and eight other major banks may have illegally foreclosed on about 4,500 active-duty servicemen and women. Charlotte-based Bank of America disputes the charges, but has agreed to work with an independent contractor and review more than 2,400 foreclosures on homeowners who indicated they were eligible for relief ...

Major central banks around the globe took coordinated action Wednesday to ease the strains on the world's financial system, saying they would make it easier for banks to get dollars if they need them. Stock markets and the euro rose sharply on the move.The European Central Bank, U.S. Federal Reserve, the Bank of England and the central banks of Canada, Japan and Switzerland are all taking part.As ...

Standard & Poor's Ratings Services has lowered its credit ratings for many of the world's largest financial institutions, including the biggest banks in the U.S.Bank of America Corp. and its main subsidiaries are among the institutions whose ratings fell at least one notch Tuesday, along with Citigroup Inc., Goldman Sachs Group Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co., Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo & Co.S&P sa...

Richland County authorities are looking for a man who robbed the Bank of America at 7405 Two Notch Road on Friday afternoon. The robber was caught on video entering the bank shortly after 5 p.m. He handed a note to a teller which the Sheriff's Department said contained a demand for money and then fled with an undisclosed amount of cash.Sheriff Leon Lott said there is a $1,000 reward for informatio...

TD Bank announced plans Wednesday to put a regional hub in Greenville and create 1,600 new jobs in South Carolina over the next five years in one of the largest job announcement in the state in recent years.Company officials said the bank is expanding its corporate offices off Interstate 85, adding 1,400 jobs there and 200 jobs in Lexington. Currently, 160 people work at the Greenville campus. The...

Police in West Columbia are trying to keep citizens safe from financial crimes.Chief Dennis Tyndall is hosting a free seminar on Wednesday on how people can protect themselves from financial scams.A white collar investigator is covering topics including identity theft, credit card scams and bank fraud. There are also tips about protecting wallets during the holiday season and specifically protecti...

A Red Bank man is accused of killing a pedestrian in a hit-and-run accident.Diedreich Adam Jackson, 29, faces charges of reckless homicide and leaving the scene of an accident, police said.He was taken into custody Sunday after police learned his vehicle matched the description of a white Chevrolet Camaro SS being sought, Maj. Jackie Brothers said.Dennis Barfield died after being struck by a car e...

CANNES, France — Leaders of the world’s most industrialized nations scrambled Thursday to rescue a European Union deal to restructure Greek debts and prevent a regional financial crisis from spreading and creating further global economic disruption. President Barack Obama and his European Union counterparts held closed doors meetings looking for ways to salvage last week’s marathon...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Bank of America Corp. has eliminated its planned $5 debit card fee, backing down after more than a month of harsh criticism and mounting pressure as top competitors declined to follow suit with similar charges. Analysts say it was a necessary move that will chip away at some of the resentment against the nation's second-largest bank by assets. But they say the about-face also...

Authorities say a steroid ring uncovered in Ohio used drugs imported from China and processed at a secret lab in Tennessee to peddle to high school athletes and other customers across the country.Officials said Tuesday that a grand jury in Lebanon, north of Cincinnati, indicted 32 people in the operation, including a bank manager, a pro wrestler and a stay-at-home mom. Charges include engaging in ...

Bank of America Corp. is scrapping its plan to charge a $5 monthly debit card fee.The bank's decision to drop the fee came after a roar of customer outrage in recent weeks over the fee. Other major banks, including JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Wells Fargo & Co., already canceled tests of similar debit card fees last week.SunTrust Banks and Regions Financial Corp. followed suit on Monday.Anne Pace, a s...

Several, if not tens of thousands, of Wells Fargo customers received portions of other customers’ bank statements in the mail Wednesday, potentially a massive security breach for the San Francisco-based bank.A spokesman at the bank’s headquarters reached Thursday morning had not heard of the problem. A Charlotte-based spokesman quoted in an ABC News 4 report on the issue said in an email...