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Monday, June 03, 2013  Statistics show almost two-thirds of all gun deaths in South Carolina are suicides.

Monday, May 27, 2013  The new leader of what used to be the South Carolina Hospitality Association said the group's membership has stabilized as it works to pay back nearly $500,000 stolen from its hotels and restaurants.

Friday, April 12, 2013  Authorities say a man and a wife found dead in the backyard of a Greer home each committed suicide.

Tuesday, July 31, 2012  Three suspects broke into a pizza store near Irmo Thursday morning and stole a safe, according to the Lexington County Sheriff's Department.

Monday, July 23, 2012  Authorities say a man suspected of firebombing a South Carolina probation office killed himself in his cell.

Thursday, June 07, 2012  Nineteen people have been arrested in the Carolinas as part of a two-year investigation into gun and drug crimes.

Tuesday, May 22, 2012  Approximately eight home burglaries are being investigated by the Sumter Police Department.

Friday, May 18, 2012  Newberry College named its 22nd president this week.

Wednesday, May 16, 2012  Authorities say a 21-year-old convicted sex offender charged with kidnapping a 7-year-old is now facing more charges.

Monday, April 30, 2012  Authorities say 21-year-old Clayton Thomas Jones, a convicted sex offender, has been charged with kidnapping after a mother found her 7-year-old daughter in his Greenville apartment.

Monday, April 02, 2012  Shaquan Duley has begun a 35-year prison sentence for killing her two young sons. Records show Duley was admitted Friday to a maximum-security women's prison in Columbia.

Friday, March 30, 2012  Shaquan Duley, the Orangeburg mother who admitted suffocating her two young sons, was sentenced to 35 years in prison Friday. She faced between 30 years and life in prison.

Thursday, March 29, 2012  A South Carolina mother who admitted suffocating her two young sons faces a possible life sentence Friday.

Friday, March 16, 2012  Shaquan  Duley pleaded guilty in an Orangeburg Courtroom for suffocating her two sons in 2010.

Thursday, February 23, 2012  Three individuals, including a man from Cayce, have been arrested in an insurance fraud scheme.