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Tuesday, June 11, 2013  A $50,000 bond has been set for a 21-year-old Hartsville mother indicted in the deaths of her four children.

Tuesday, June 11, 2013  A Virgin Islands man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison after pleading guilty to killing a Spartanburg college student last year.

Friday, June 07, 2013  A 28-year-old man has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for a shooting death in the parking lot of a Waffle House restaurant in Spartanburg.

Friday, May 17, 2013  Two men have been sentenced to prison for their guilty pleas in the stabbing death of the uncle of one of the men in Murrells Inlet.

Thursday, May 16, 2013  The great-grandson of an 86-year-old Anderson County man found shot to death in his home has been sentenced to 17 years in prison for his role in the slaying.

Wednesday, May 08, 2013  A judge in St. Maarten has convicted three men and issued prison sentences in the killing of a South Carolina couple who owned a home in the Caribbean country.

Wednesday, May 08, 2013  A Greer man has been sentenced to 26 years in prison for killing a woman during a violent sexual assault.

Thursday, May 02, 2013  An An Alaska-based soldier from South Carolina will serve nearly 12 years in a military prison and be dishonorably discharged after killing a fellow soldier on Christmas morning.

Thursday, May 02, 2013  The parents of a 2-year-old Conway boy who grabbed a loaded gun and killed himself on Christmas Day are facing new charges.

Tuesday, April 23, 2013  A North Charleston man has pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the strangulation death of a Mount Pleasant man last year.

Tuesday, April 23, 2013  New Mexico slaughterhouse becomes ground zero in emotional debate over horse slaughter

Friday, April 19, 2013  A second defendant has pleaded guilty in the killing of an 86-year-old Anderson County man during a robbery two years ago.

Friday, April 19, 2013  A Lancaster County man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison in the shooting death of his wife.

Wednesday, April 10, 2013  A lawyer for a Jamaican man accused of killing a U.S. couple in their St. Maarten vacation home urged a judge to convict him of a lesser crime than premeditated murder.

Friday, March 29, 2013  A proposed law allowing the slaughter of horses for human consumption is proving tough to stomach for some.