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

Monday, September 17, 2012  Officials from the State Ports Authority and the Army Corps of Engineers are giving an update on the $300 million deepening of the Charleston Harbor shipping channel.

Monday, May 07, 2012  For the second time in a year, a South Carolina officer has ticketed a motorist for displaying a replica of human testicles on a vehicle

Wednesday, December 14, 2011  A South Carolina woman who displayed plastic testicles on the back of her pickup truck is set to appear in court. The attorney for Virginia Tice of Bonneau said her trial is set for Wednesday morning in municipal court in the Berkeley County community.

Thursday, August 11, 2011  Prosecutors say they will not charge the father of a 9-month-old boy who died after he was left in a hot car in Columbia for several hours on Father's Day.

Thursday, July 28, 2011  A jury will decide the fate of a woman ticketed for dangling the family jewels from the trailer hitch of her truck.

Monday, June 20, 2011  The Richland County coroner says an autopsy shows an infant left unattended in a hot car outside a Columbia apartment complex Sunday afternoon died from exposure to the heat. Columbia Police Chief Randy Scott says the child's father left him in the car for at least three hours.

Sunday, April 17, 2011  Fire officials say a tornado has collapsed a church with six people inside near the town of Bonneau.