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

Saturday, April 20, 2013  Residents of Texas town ready to start recovery from plant blast as soon as authorities allow

Thursday, February 07, 2013  A Georgia company has been indicted related to a 2009 ammonia leak that killed a woman in Swansea.

Thursday, March 15, 2012  The South Carolina House wants to ban public schools from buying meat containing the common beef filler dubbed "pink slime."

Wednesday, December 15, 2010  South Carolina officials have fined a Pennsylvania company $91,000 for its procedures before a July 2009 ammonia leak that killed a woman.

Thursday, November 04, 2010  Federal regulators are fining a South Carolina nuclear fuel plant thousands of dollars for a spill of wastewater containing uranium.

Monday, August 09, 2010  Officials say a man picked up what he thought was an air compressor from the side of the road.  He later discovered it was an ammonia tank and was sprayed in the face with the chemical.

Tuesday, March 23, 2010  Lexington County deputies have two men and one woman in custody for operating a methamphetamine laboratory near Pelion.

Wednesday, July 15, 2009  An ammonia leak just outside of Swansea has left one woman dead officials from the Lexington County Sheriff’s Department and the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) announced at a joint briefing Wednesday.

Saturday, April 18, 2009  Residents have started returning to a town in southeastern Minnesota after city officials lifted an evacuation order prompted by a large fire at a meat-processing plant.