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

Monday, March 11, 2013  The 6-foot-thick concrete foundation for South Carolina's new nuclear plant has been poured in Fairfield County.

Wednesday, January 30, 2013  A strong line of storms passed through the Midlands Wednesday.

Friday, January 04, 2013  A teenager has been charged with causing a fire that has left a Charleston-area family homeless.

Friday, October 12, 2012  A 44-year-old woman will spend 23 years in prison for abusing a 3-year-old girl who died after burns she received as punishment during potty training were not treated.

Thursday, August 02, 2012  A judge has set a $525,000 bond for a man who authorities say poured bleach into the water tanks of a kidney dialysis machine in West Columbia as revenge against his employer.

Wednesday, August 01, 2012  A suspended employee of a West Columbia medical clinic was arrested Wednesday after employees at the clinic found that the water supply for dialysis machines operated at the facility had been contaminated with chlorine bleach last month.

Friday, July 06, 2012  It has been said that a true Southern woman can take you mud bogging in the morning and then serve a proper tea in the afternoon.

Thursday, May 17, 2012  A McDonald's worker in Simpsonville has been cleared of a charge that he spit into two customers' iced tea.

Monday, September 26, 2011  Grace Temple Deliverance Center was under 10 inches of water following Sunday’s downpour.

Friday, August 13, 2010  Columbia Opportunity Resource, or COR, along with a few local rotary clubs are hosting a Pour on the Tour fundraiser for the Dickerson Center for Children.

Wednesday, January 13, 2010  Waiting and worrying, Haitian-Americans struggle to reach relatives in quake-ravaged nation