I-77 Crash in South Carolina
Air Force Academy graduate was hit by driver going wrong way on Interstate 77
In the tight-knit community of the USC School of Law, Alan Martinez is a superstar.
“There’s no way you could not want to get to know him,” said Margaret Strom, a classmate....
Dog Attack
ROCK HILL — A baby and his grandmother were attacked by a dog Friday in Rock Hill.
Deputies met with a 41-year-old woman who said she was pushing her grandson in a stroller on Pine Grove Court in Rock Hill when the dog ran into the road and attacked them,...
Tractor Trailer Wreck Wrongful Death
GAFFNEY, S.C. — A U.S. Marine, his wife and infant son traveling back to his base in Quantico, Va., have been killed in a fiery crash on Interstate 85 near Gaffney.
Cherokee County Coroner Dennis Fowler says the wreck occurred shortly after 8 p.m. Tuesday when a pickup truck went...
SUV hits Waffle House worker walking along Cherry Road
ROCK HILL — A Waffle House employee was struck by a vehicle as she was walking to work Thursday morning in Rock Hill.
The 19-year-old Rock Hill woman was walking on the sidewalk along Cherry Road at the entrance to Kangaroo Express around 11 a.m. when a white Chevrolet Tahoe...
5 seriously hurt after car flips in Lancaster Co. crash
LANCASTER — Five people, including an infant, were seriously injured in an overnight crash in Lancaster County after their car rolled over and hit a parked car.
Between 10:30 and 10:45 p.m., their car flipped over, hitting a parked car on Country Club Drive, said Stephen Blackwelder, Lancaster County fire...
Family rallies to help Rock Hill man hurt in motorcycle crash
That was the prognosis on June 2, when Barnette, who wasn’t wearing a helmet, collided with 33-year-old Michael Scranton’s 1998 Ford Taurus just minutes after Barnette evaded police when they commanded him to stop for driving recklessly.
Scranton, a Catawba resident, was wearing a seat belt and was uninjured,...
2 die in SC crash; toddler saved by car seat
KERSHAW — Two people are dead but a child car seat saved the life of a 2-year-old girl in a deadly car crash in Kershaw County over the weekend.
"That car seat did its job — it saved that little girl's life,'' said Kershaw County Coroner Johnny Fellers.
Man left dead on SC coast by hit-and-run driver
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. — The South Carolina Highway Patrol is looking for a hit-and-run driver who struck and killed a man walking in Beaufort County.
The Island Packet of Hilton Head reports ( http://bit.ly/SY8SPl) the incident happened about 9:30 p.m. Sunday in the Okatie community off Hilton Head Island.
Name released of Lancaster Co. man who died in car crash
LANCASTER — Officials have released the name of a Lancaster County man who died Sunday afternoon after he drove his 2006 Nissan Altima onto the other side of the road and collided with an oncoming car.
Michael Leon Plyler, 56, was pronounced dead at the scene, said Mike Morris, Lancaster...
SC man killed by truck that jumped curb
COLUMBIA, S.C. — A Gilbert, S.C., man hit by a pickup truck on the William Jennings Dorn VA Medical Center campus Monday has died.
Duane Mack, 85, was walking with a relative outside the center when a Lincoln pickup truck jumped a curb and pinned him underneath, Columbia Police Department...