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

Thursday, April 18, 2013  A Ladson woman has been arrested and accused of causing her 17-month-old child's death last year.

Wednesday, April 10, 2013  Sumter County Coroner Harvin Bullock ruled the death of 3-year-old Qui'ontrez Moss accidental.

Tuesday, April 09, 2013  A young child in Sumter is dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot.

Wednesday, March 06, 2013  A Lancaster man has been accused of beating a 5-year-old girl to death.

Thursday, October 18, 2012  Relatives say a Seneca man accused of killing his 7-month-old niece asked if he could watch over the girl the night before she died.

Thursday, October 11, 2012  The Richland County coroner has identified a first-grader that was struck and killed near a Midlands elementary school Wednesday.

Thursday, October 11, 2012  A child was struck by a vehicle and killed near a local school Wednesday afternoon.

Wednesday, October 10, 2012  The former girlfriend of a man charged with killing his young son and then putting the body in a trash can filled with concrete says he wiped the victim with peroxide to get rid of fingerprints

Wednesday, June 20, 2012  A Gaffney teen is charged with homicide by child abuse in the death of her infant son.

Tuesday, June 05, 2012  Authorities say ballistics tests have linked a gun used to kill a Sumter man in April to the slaying of a pregnant teen last August.

Wednesday, May 30, 2012  Around 30 law enforcement professionals from across South Carolina turned to a man with decades of experience in missing child cases to learn life saving tips Wednesday morning.

Wednesday, March 28, 2012  A legislative panel has approved a bill to allow government agencies to pay more than a $600,000 per-event liability limit that protects public agencies from having to pay unlimited damages.

Wednesday, March 14, 2012  A legislative panel has postponed a vote on a bill that would exclude medical expenses from the $600,000 per-event liability cap that protects the government from paying unlimited damages, regardless of the number of government entities involved.

Monday, January 24, 2011  The man accused of carrying out a mass shooting in Arizona pleaded not guilty Monday to charges he tried to kill Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and two of her aides.

Tuesday, May 18, 2010  A crime-reality series camera crew may have videotaped events leading up to the shooting death of a 7-year-old girl at the hands of a Detroit officer.