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Today at 3:19 PM  Double Murder convict Brett Parker will answer to a jury on Federal gambling charges in September.

Friday, June 14, 2013  A second Spartanburg man has been sentenced in what authorities have called a plot to randomly shoot at and kill people.

Wednesday, June 12, 2013  A North Charleston businessman has been sentenced to three years in prison for illegally exporting goods to Iran.

Tuesday, June 11, 2013  A Virgin Islands man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison after pleading guilty to killing a Spartanburg college student last year.

Monday, June 10, 2013  The man responsible for leaking to the press information about sweeping U.S. surveillance programs has revealed his own identity.

Friday, June 07, 2013  A 28-year-old man has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for a shooting death in the parking lot of a Waffle House restaurant in Spartanburg.

Thursday, June 06, 2013  Authorities say a state prison inmate who walked away from a work crew assignment in Chester County has been arrested while trying to commit a burglary in Surfside Beach.

Thursday, June 06, 2013  South Carolina prison officials say an inmate sneaked outside through a ceiling tile and tried to pick up contraband thrown over the fence at a state prison in Jasper County.

Thursday, June 06, 2013  A former South Carolina death row inmate has been sentenced to life in prison for strangling a woman in 2006.

Wednesday, June 05, 2013  Authorities are looking for a South Carolina prison inmate who walked away from a work crew assignment.

Friday, May 31, 2013  Federal prosecutors say a South Carolina man has pleaded guilty to sending pictures of himself engaged in sexual activity with two young girls over the Internet to a Maine man.

Thursday, May 30, 2013  A leader of a South Carolina chapter of the Hells Angels motorcycle club has been sentenced to more than 17 years in prison for his role in a drug and weapons crime ring.

Wednesday, May 29, 2013  Lexington County deputies say a man is accused of killing his family's black lab puppy that was found with its mouth taped shut in an outdoor closet without food or water.

Monday, May 27, 2013  Researchers and archaeology students are getting ready to break new ground this summer at Camp Lawton, a Civil War prison camp that stayed virtually undisturbed for nearly 150 years before it was discovered in southeast Georgia.

Thursday, May 23, 2013  A judge has ordered a 22-year-old former University of South Carolina student to spend seven years in prison and get drug, alcohol and mental health counseling after he admitted burning down a Columbia bar.