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Thursday, May 16, 2013  State Rep. Ted Vick told an officer arresting him for driving under the influence that he was not intoxicated and couldn't believe he was being put in handcuffs in the Statehouse garage.

Thursday, October 25, 2012  A Columbia Police Officer is hospitalized after a late morning accident on Devine Street involving his cruiser.

Friday, July 27, 2012  A South Carolina Highway Patrol trooper hurt when he was struck by a vehicle on I-26 has been released from the hospital.

Wednesday, November 09, 2011  The Dorchester County Sheriff's Office is in the market for a new set of tires, thanks to some audacious thieves who left a cruiser up on blocks.

Wednesday, September 07, 2011  A Summerville man, charged with DUI after a collision with a deputy's cruiser, has bonded out of jail.

Thursday, August 25, 2011  Thirty-seven-year-old Perry Alton Sullivan of Bowersville, Ga., is charged with overpowering a deputy and stealing a sheriff's cruiser and his gun Aug. 18. Sullivan was being taken to Georgia to face a burglary charge at the time.

Wednesday, September 22, 2010  A Moncks Corner police officer has lost his job after pictures of bikini-clad strippers washing his police cruiser showed up on Facebook.

Sunday, June 06, 2010  87-year-old man dies in wreck with SC police car.

Tuesday, February 10, 2009  The commanding officer of a $1 billion warship that ran aground along the coast of Honolulu has been relieved of duty, the Navy said Monday.

Sunday, February 08, 2009  The USS Port Royal ran aground on Thursday evening, about a half-mile south of the Honolulu airport where it was visible from several vantage points on Oahu.

Tuesday, October 21, 2008  The Highway Patrol confirms that two arrests have been made in a hit-and-run accident that left one dead and another injured.