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

Friday, April 19, 2013  Travelers Rest has voted to annex Furman University.

Friday, April 05, 2013  An Ohio man who lost an arm in an alligator attack on a South Carolina golf course has received a settlement.

Wednesday, March 13, 2013  Missouri golfer survives frightening fall into sinkhole while playing Illinois course

Wednesday, March 06, 2013  The Town of Hilton Head Island is buying more than 100 acres on the resort island -- the largest single parcel the town has acquired since it was incorporated 30 years ago.

Wednesday, April 11, 2012  The new Boeing 787 jetliner will fly over the Harbour Town golf course on Hilton Head Island on Friday during the second round of the RBC Heritage golf tournament.

Friday, April 06, 2012  Masters week is the unofficial start to golf season in the Midlands.  But, a mild winter got things going earlier at a time when the industry needed it.

Friday, September 30, 2011  Police say it wasn't hard to find the teens that stole Sassy the Hippo from an Aiken miniature golf course.  Authorities say the teens tried to cover the bright purple hippo head with a sheet in the back of their pickup truck around 3 a.m. Thursday, but the sheet shifted enough so the hippo's large white teeth could be seen by an officer on patrol.

Sunday, July 31, 2011  The owner of South Carolina's only golf course on the PGA tour is working to combat erosion that's threatening to send Harbour Town's most famous green into the ocean.

Thursday, December 30, 2010  Donald Raven, 47, died Wednesday morning. His body was found inside his SUV, which was submerged in the pond at the Man-O-War golf course in the Carolina Forest area of the Grand Strand.

Wednesday, December 29, 2010  County police got a call Wednesday morning that a car had been found in a pond on the Man O' War Golf Course in the Carolina Forest area.

Wednesday, May 12, 2010  The Veterans Victory Golf Tournament teed off at the Linkrick Golf Course.