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

Wednesday, April 17, 2013  A 54-year-old Greenville man has been arrested and charged in a hit and run that killed a man and his stepson earlier this week.

Monday, April 15, 2013  Investigators are looking for a driver who struck and killed a man and his stepson as they rode a dirt bike in Greenville, then drove away.

Friday, February 22, 2013  A group that works to find solutions to social and economic challenges in South Carolina is getting a grant to expand its program to battle cardiovascular disease among blacks.

Friday, February 08, 2013  South Carolina State University is commemorating the anniversary of a shooting with a panel discussion on the impact the event had on college campuses.

Tuesday, January 15, 2013  A Blacksburg Middle School teacher has been charged with a sex crime involving a student.

Wednesday, August 01, 2012  A Mohawk Industries textile plant in Calhoun Falls is closing, with its 193 workers losing their jobs.

Tuesday, July 03, 2012  A revised timetable for the federal lawsuit over South Carolina's voter ID law would make it harder for the new requirements to impact the Nov. 6 general election.

Monday, July 02, 2012  The U.S. Justice Department has turned down South Carolina's voter identification law for a second time.

Thursday, May 03, 2012  Fewer and fewer americans are tying the knot. In 1982, 44 percent of women were in their first marriage. In 2010 the percent dropped to 36. So where are the wedding bells?

Thursday, March 29, 2012  Authorities say a couple has found a man's body by a pond in Blacksburg.

Monday, February 27, 2012  WACH Fox celebrates Black History Month with a look at African American achievements across the Midlands. James McClain a Columbia resident, was just one of thousands of African-American men who took to the skies to change the course of inequality in the United States Air Force.

Monday, February 20, 2012  WACH Fox celebrates Black History with a look at a restored building that was once the place were many African Americans in Columbia got the chance to an get an education. The education was all thanks to a man who decided to stand up for inequality.

Wednesday, September 14, 2011  Ross Kressel, the College of Charleston's student body president, has survived an impeachment vote that was called because of comments he made on Twitter.

Tuesday, September 13, 2011  College of Charleston student body president Ross Kressel faces an impeachment vote following offensive Twitter comments about women, gays, blacks and his colleagues.

Thursday, August 04, 2011  Story update: Campus-wide alert lifted at Virginia Tech.