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Monday, November 26, 2012  Columbia police are investigating claims that a man tried to impersonate a police officer in an attempt to scam a senior citizen out of money.

Monday, September 10, 2012  South Carolina has its first death from the West Nile virus this year.

Friday, April 06, 2012  A Richland County man was carjacked at gunpoint Thursday night as he was pulling into his driveway.

Saturday, January 21, 2012  A North Augusta man has been sentenced to 35 years in prison after pleading guilty to the pistol-whipping murder of an elderly man who tried to talk him out of getting in trouble.

Wednesday, December 23, 2009  Officials say an 86-year-old South Carolina man bled to death in his home after stepping into a glass vase and cutting his leg.

Tuesday, October 28, 2008  Authorities say an 80-year-old man appears to have been shot to death and his body left beside his car on a rural road in Colleton County.

Monday, October 06, 2008  A mystery is unfolding in Lee County.  Sunday morning 81-year-old William Obermeyer was found dead in his Bishopville apartment.