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

Yesterday at 8:59 PM  Hard work and paying attention to detail is nothing new to Sumter High School graduate, Molly Doggans.

Yesterday at 5:45 PM  A measure is now in place that could head off an election fiasco that caused some voters in the state to lose faith in the system.

Yesterday at 5:15 PM  The South Carolina Legislature has passed a compromise on how to spend $6.7 billion in state taxes.

Yesterday at 4:40 PM  Federal authorities in Savannah have charged 33 people as part of an undercover operation into gun and drug trafficking.

Yesterday at 4:35 PM  A Connecticut gun manufacturer is leaving in response to the state's new gun law, passed following the killings of 20 children and six educators in Newtown.

Yesterday at 4:30 PM  Federal authorities are celebrating a successful prosecution of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang in South Carolina.

Yesterday at 3:55 PM  Authorities say a South Carolina Highway Patrol cruiser has struck and killed a pedestrian in Beaufort County.

Yesterday at 3:50 PM  Authorities say a Spartanburg homeowner shot and killed an alleged intruder using a gun he grabbed from one of the two would-be robbers.

Yesterday at 2:40 PM  A new television ad criticizes U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham for his support of a costly program to turn weapons-grade plutonium into commercial nuclear reactor fuel.

Yesterday at 11:50 AM  A convicted felon who shot and killed two men he said were trying to rob his Spartanburg apartment has been sentenced to prison.

Yesterday at 11:45 AM  Lt. Col. Michael Standish is taking over Army recruiting operations in South Carolina, western North Carolina and eastern Georgia.

Yesterday at 11:35 AM  The acting financial clerk for Florence School District 4 has been arrested and charged with forging several checks for thousands of dollars.

Yesterday at 11:25 AM  North Charleston police say a couple has died in a murder-suicide shooting.

Yesterday at 11:15 AM  A 61-year-old Lee County man is getting two years' probation after pleading guilty to four counts of the ill-treatment of 1,000 animals.

Yesterday at 8:15 AM  Google is holding an event to give teachers, entrepreneurs, and employees of nonprofits a chance to learn how to use the Internet company's tools at the Trident Technical College campus in North Charleston.