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Thursday, May 02, 2013  A Walterboro couple is accused of stealing a tanker and thousands of gallons of fuel from a Colleton County armory.

Thursday, April 25, 2013  South Carolina agents say two Marion police officers have been arrested for using excessive force on a suspect.

Friday, April 12, 2013  A Columbia man is the third person arrested in the deaths of two people found in a house fire two years ago.

Monday, March 25, 2013  Court-ordered mediation in a federal lawsuit challenging the $650 million deepening of the Savannah River shipping channel resumes this week.

Monday, March 18, 2013  A Johnson & Johnson subsidiary says South Carolina's high court should overturn a decision ordering the company to pay the state hundreds of millions of dollars for deceptive drug marketing.

Tuesday, February 19, 2013  The House budget-writing committee wants Gov. Nikki Haley's office to pay more than $1 million for contracts she signed in response to a massive security breach at the state's tax collection agency.

Monday, February 11, 2013  Authorities say they have charged two people with murder in the shooting death of a man in Lancaster last month, including the woman who took the victim to the hospital.

Friday, February 08, 2013  A South Carolina couple has been arrested and charged in the death of their toddler when they lived in North Carolina last year.

Tuesday, February 05, 2013  Four people have been arrested in the January shooting death of a man in Richland County.

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  Authorities have arrested two men for a fatal shooting in North Charleston.

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, January 08, 2013  An independent panel created by Gov. Nikki Haley is scheduled to discuss recommendations for strengthening South Carolina's ethics and public records laws.

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.