Latest local news, weather and high school sports from the Midlands

Yesterday at 11:08 PM  Twenty-four families in northeast Richland County now have much nicer and earth-friendly homes.

Yesterday at 10:58 PM  What is it about mail carriers that gets dogs so riled up? The number of postal workers bitten by dogs so far this year in the state is inching very close to the total number of attacks last year.

Yesterday at 6:32 PM  Former Brookland-Cayce Head Football Coach and Athletic Director Abby Bray passed away Thursday night after a battle with pancreatic cancer.

Yesterday at 5:52 PM  Shaw Third Army leaders officially opened the Third Army Nursing Center; also known as TANC.

Yesterday at 3:55 PM  South Carolina's own Candice Glover was crowned the new "American Idol" on Thursday after defeating country singer Kree Harrison.

Yesterday at 2:15 PM  Friday, the Chief Medical Examiner for Richland County continued his testimony about the autopsies he performed on Tammy Jo Parker and Bryan Capnerhurst, who were shot to death in April 2012.

Yesterday at 1:40 PM  South Carolina's unemployment has dropped to its lowest rate in five years.

Yesterday at 1:35 PM  The commission working to preserve the culture of slave descendants on the Southeast coast is holding its quarterly meeting. The Gullah-Geechee Heritage Corridor Commission meets in Conway.

Yesterday at 9:05 AM  About 1,500 members of the South Carolina Army National Guard are taking part in five days of training involving potential responses to a natural disaster.

Yesterday at 9:00 AM  Veterans of the World War II-era aircraft carrier USS Franklin are scheduled to hold their final reunion in South Carolina.

Yesterday at 8:55 AM  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.

Yesterday at 8:50 AM  Richland County has agreed to pay $150,000 to the estates of a couple killed in a 2008 train collision.

Yesterday at 8:50 AM  A Laurens County jury has found a Gray Court man guilty of murder in the shooting death of his estranged wife.

Yesterday at 8:35 AM  Australian politician sorry he accidentally 'liked' Facebook photo of prankster exposing self

Yesterday at 8:08 AM  The Columbia Police Department will be conducting a joint training exercise with Hammond School, on Galway Lane, Friday from 1:00 p.m. until 3:00 p.m.