An Illinois man is dead after he disarmed a police officer conducting a well-being check and shot himself with the officer’s weapon. The Charleston Police Department said officers were called to the home just after 1 a.m. on Saturday to check on a 22-year-old man who had called 911 himself asking for help. “During the …
A Pennsylvania murder suspect killed himself in West Virginia Monday morning after a pursuit along Interstate 79 in Charleston. Kanawha County deputies said they got information that the suspect in a double murder in Allegheny County was in their area at about 6 a.m. and spotted the black Acura about an hour later, WSAZ reported. …
Police in Charleston, South Carolina, are looking for a 14-year-old girl who left her home on Tuesday and hasn’t been seen since. Sophie Benton frequents the Carolina Bay area in west Charleston, investigators say, according to WCSC. Police didn’t have a description of what Benton was wearing when she was last seen. Anyone with information …
A South Carolina couple was arrested this week after they reportedly left their 2-year-old son home alone while they went to New York. Charleston Police said they were called to an apartment complex on Folly Road at about 2 p.m. on November 17 by someone who reported a toddler alone in an apartment, WCBD reported. …
A woman missing for more than a week has been found dead in a South Carolina marsh, and the man suspected of killing her was found dead from self-inflicted gunshot wounds when police came to arrest him. Megan Rich, 41, was reported missing on August 16, WCSC reported. She was last seen on August 12. …
A man with a hatchet allegedly attacked a South Carolina couple on Thursday, killing one, and is now suspected of two other attacks the day before. According to the Charleston Post and Courier, Theodore Thomas Wagner Jr, 42, was arrested Friday and charged with one count of murder, two counts of attempted murder, and one …
A former star high school football quarterback was arrested last week in connection with a Memorial Day shooting in Charleston, South Carolina, that left nine people wounded. Del’Javon Simmons, who was once considered a potential college standout after his Burke High School days, has been charged with five counts of attempted murder and possession of …
A South Carolina woman was arrested last week when she reportedly grabbed a deputy’s taser and bit a paramedic’s groin. But those incidents came after Gina Darlene McGehee, 63, dropped her nephew — apparently a minor — off at the Charleston County jail on December 28, saying he’d taken a cell phone from her car …
A South Carolina child care employee has been charged with multiple counts relating to child abuse after she was caught on video shaking and hitting three infants this week. Tina Rose Nye, 55, was seen on video holding children ranging in age from 3 months to 5 months upside down and violently shaking them and …
The former county solicitor was suspended from practicing law for nine months in 2012 for punching a Utah state trooper.
A South Carolina couple was jailed this week after their 1-year-old son overdosed on fentanyl — and it was the second time the boy ingested his parents’ drugs. The Columbia Police Department said Donald Ray Little Jr, 39, and Mary Ashley Willis, 27, have been charged with unlawful neglect of a child. Little has also …
A United Airlines flight from Newark to Miami was diverted to Charleston, South Carolina, on Wednesday after an unruly passenger allegedly bit a man’s ear and had to be subdued by a doctor who injected him with Benadryl. According to a police report, police who met the flight when it landed found 1.5 grams of …
