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Wednesday, February 06, 2013  A man has pleaded guilty but mentally ill in the death of a Belton man more than a year ago.

Friday, February 01, 2013  Investigators say a Chester teen offered to pay his friends $5,000 to kill the grandparents who raised him because they were too strict.

Friday, February 01, 2013  A third teenager has been arrested in the death of a grandmother killed in her Chester home.

Wednesday, January 30, 2013  Investigators say a 17-year-old man was part of a plot to attack his grandmother in their Chester home.

Tuesday, November 27, 2012  Investigators say a grandmother's drinking led to the suffocation death of a five-week-old girl in Greenville.

Wednesday, August 08, 2012  Authorities say a 47-year-old man drowned in Lake Hartwell as he tried to retrieve his grandson's float which had drifted away.

Friday, May 13, 2011  Officials say an elderly woman is dead after her grandson tried to beat a train across the tracks in Orangeburg.  The grandson drove the around a stopped car at a crossing at the corner of Highway 601 and Sellers Avenue after 11 a.m. Friday according to Orangeburg Public Safety officials.