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News About Town: College graduations, awards and honors announced
BLUFFTON, SC — The University of South Carolina Beaufort celebrated the graduation of 230 students on April 26, 2024, in a ceremony for Spring graduates held on the Bluffton campus. Those graduates included:. Nadiyah Brown of Pineland earned a BSN in Nursing. Elizabeth Herbert of Varnville earned a BSN...
A Bruner back on top at Beaufort River Swim
Cohen, 21, repeats after last winning event in 2019. It took a while, but Cohen Bruner is a repeat Beaufort River Swim overall champion. The 21-year-old Hilton Head Island High School product finished Saturday’s 3.2-mile, open-water race from the Port Royal Marina to the Downtown Beaufort Beaufort Marina in a time of 50 minutes, 41 seconds.
Colleton County deputies make arrest in triple homicide investigation
COLLETON COUNTY, S.C. (WCBD) – A 31-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a triple homicide in Colleton County. Jameek Glover, 31, has been charged with three counts of accessory after the fact of murder. Deputies with the Colleton County Sheriff’s Office responded to a Hayden Street home during the early hours of May […]
First responders on South Carolina highway give CPR to 8-year-old child injured in drive-by shooting
WALTERBORO, S.C. — Officials say an 8-year-old child received life-saving care from South Carolina first responders in the middle of a highway after being shot. The Colleton County Fire and Rescue team said they got the call just after 11 p.m. Saturday about the child suffering from a gunshot wound in a reported drive-by shooting in the 100 block of London Lane north of Walterboro.
Summerville Woman Sentenced to Jail for Animal Neglect
On May 21, 2024, Colleton County Magistrate Judge Elbert O. Duffie sentenced Kimberly Brianne Couture of Summerville, SC to spend 10 days in jail in Colleton County, South Carolina. On April 27, 2024, Kimberly Couture entered a guilty plea to 39 counts of failure to provide care to animals and one count of failure to properly dispose of a dead animal after hearing several hours of testimony by two veterinarians, three animal control officers, a shelter volunteer and a horse rescue representative.
Woman critically injured, revived after Colleton County collision
COLLETON COUNTY, S.C. (WCBD) – Two people were injured, one of whom critically, after a collision Tuesday morning in Colleton County. Colleton County Fire-Rescue said the collision occurred around 8:21 a.m. on Jefferies Highway south of Academy Road. Witnesses told authorities a Honda Accord turned into the path of a Chevrolet pickup truck heading south. […]
Last person to see Victoria Beach alive speaks out, law enforcement still has no answers
WALTERBORO, S.C. (WCIV) — Tina Smith may be one of the last people to see Victoria Beach alive. Beach’s body was found in a suitcase in Walterboro nearly two months ago at an abandoned building less than a mile from the Colleton County Courthouse. Tuesday, 55 days later,...
One person killed in Sunday morning crash on County Shed Road
A Sunday morning, single-vehicle crash on County Shed Road in Burton left one person dead and sent another to the hospital. According to Lance Cpl. Lena Butler of the South Carolina Highway Patrol, the collision occurred at approximately 7:17 a.m., on secondary Highway 73 (County Shed Road) near Parris Island Gateway, three miles west of Beaufort.
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