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Friday, April 12, 2013  Early Friday morning, investigators say two men were killed at a home in Sumter.

Wednesday, February 20, 2013  U.S. Sen. Tim Scott wants the students at his old high school in North Charleston to dream big.

Thursday, February 07, 2013  South Carolina's Medicaid agency will begin fully reimbursing rural hospitals this October for treating people without health insurance.

Friday, January 25, 2013  On Friday, family and friends will gather at the church to mourn the deaths — a tragedy that just doesn't make sense to surviving family members or the church community that has watched the accused teen grow up.

Thursday, January 24, 2013  The year 1963 saw major events take place in the Civil Rights Movement, and many of them happened right here in the Midlands. Fifty years later, the City of Columbia is remembering that pivotal period.

Monday, August 20, 2012  The family of a 39-year-old schizophrenic man who died after a Taser struggle with Greenville police officers has sued the city.

Thursday, August 16, 2012  A Richland County deputy who shot and killed a man during a struggle in July has been cleared of any wrongdoing in the incident.

Tuesday, July 31, 2012  Small Midwest farmers struggle to fill orders, stay afloat as drought, heat kill vegetables

Tuesday, July 17, 2012  The Sumter County Coroner confirmed Tuesday that the man killed by a trooper Saturday had a blood alcohol level that was more than three times the legal limit.

Thursday, July 12, 2012  A North Charleston police officer has been fired after shooting himself then saying someone else fired at him last week.

Friday, July 06, 2012  US economy added 80,000 jobs in June; unemployment rate unchanged at 8.2 percent

Tuesday, April 03, 2012  Sumter County deputies say no charges will be filed in a fight in a middle school bathroom that was uploaded to the Internet.

Monday, April 02, 2012  The Sumter community is outraged after a video of a what appears to be a teenage boy being bullied in a middle school bathroom surfaced on the internet this weekend.

Wednesday, September 07, 2011  Despite calming winds, firefighters have yet to get control of destructive Texas wildfire

Monday, August 29, 2011  Ranchers in drought-stricken southern Plains struggle to find, afford hay to feed their cattle