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

Thursday, May 09, 2013  Mother's Day came a few days early for a South Carolina man and his mother.

Thursday, April 25, 2013  Beaufort County sheriff's deputies say 15 dogs have been taken from the home of a Burton woman who is too sick to take care of them.

Tuesday, April 16, 2013  The Supreme Court is trying to sort out a wrenching adoption case involving a Native American child, a biological father who first renounced any interest in her and adoptive parents who were eventually ordered to hand her over to the father.

Thursday, March 28, 2013  Maine Attorney General Janet Mills says the state is joining South Carolina and other states in defending the federal Indian Child Welfare Act in a case going before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Tuesday, March 19, 2013  A Georgetown man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to putting two dogs in duct tape and throwing them into a canal.

Tuesday, March 12, 2013  Veterinarians and animal rescue organizations are generally on the same page when it comes to helping animals, but a newly proposed bill has the groups on opposing sides.

Wednesday, February 13, 2013  A Midlands dog, named a national hero, has died.

Thursday, January 31, 2013  A man charged in connection with dog fighting in Richland County more than a year ago will spend one year in jail, according to Sheriff Leon Lott.

Tuesday, January 29, 2013  The show provides national exposure to the shelters across the country that provide the puppy athletes and the kittens that star in the halftime show.

Friday, January 25, 2013  Episcopal congregations in eastern South Carolina remaining with the national church say they will abide by a court order restraining them from using the name the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina.

Monday, January 21, 2013  The U.S. Supreme Court could be looking to invalidate a long-standing federal policy governing the adoption of Native American children.

Monday, January 21, 2013  The Utah Supreme Court has refused to stay a lower court's decision ordering the adoptive parents of a 2-year-old girl to give her to the biological father.

Friday, January 04, 2013  The Supreme Court will review a ruling that sent a South Carolina couple's adopted Native American daughter back to her biological father in Oklahoma.

Monday, December 31, 2012  A new law signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin banning Russian children from being adopted by families may prevent other orphans from ending up in good homes.

Monday, November 12, 2012  A story that began four years ago, of 49 abused Arabian horses, has come to a happy ending. The Humane Society of the Midlands took posession of the horses in 2008 and nursed them back to health. All but ten of the horses have now been adopted out to new homes.