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Business

Local perfume CEO reaches mega milestone

BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C.–Nearly three years ago, Kelly Gaskins, who was born and raised right outside Moncks Corner, made a bold move. She quit her job in TV news, moved back in with her parents, and had no steady income. “I was working during the heart of the economic downturn. The economy tanking added to a lot of tension in the […]

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Ex-worker of former St. Stephen dentist sentenced

ST. STEPHEN, S.C.–According to the Ninth Judicial Circuit Solicitor’s Office, Linda Branton Gregg, 54, was sentenced to six years in prison this week. Once out, she will then serve three years probation. Authorities said to avoid trial, Gregg decided to plead guilty to the charges. The St. Stephen woman was accused of stealing $80,000 from her employer, the late Dr. […]

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Police need help locating larceny suspects

GOOSE CREEK, S.C.–The Goose Creek Police Department needs the public’s help identifying the individuals seen in the photo officers say was taken from the Wal-Mart in Goose Creek. Police say that on December 16, 2013, the suspects entered Wal-Mart in Goose Creek, where a woman used a stolen credit card to make a $1,110.00 purchase. When the card was declined, […]

Government

Governor, DSS celebrate welfare-to-work success

BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C.–Governor Nikki Haley joined with South Carolina Department of Social Services (DSS) Director Lillian Koller in recognition of the 18,000 South Carolinians who have transitioned from welfare to work since 2011. CR Bard in Moncks Corner is one of hundreds of companies in South Carolina which have hired former welfare recipients. “From the start, getting South Carolinians off […]

Health

DHEC to offer free whooping cough shots

BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C.—If you’re a parent and have a soon-to-be seventh grader in need of vaccination for the whooping cough, listen up. The Department of Health and Environmental Control will offer T-dap vaccines at two area clinics on August 17th. For the 2013-2014 school year, the T-dap vaccine is a new school entry requirement for all incoming seventh graders. Health […]

Entertainment

WWE LIVE comes to the lowcountry

BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C.–Listen up, Berkeley County peeps! If you love wraaaaastling, you’re in luck. Starting this Friday, tickets officially go on sale at 10 a.m. at the North Charleston Coliseum for WWE Live. Tickets start as low as $15. The big event arrives in town on February 28, 2014 for one show only at 7:30 p.m. If you go, you’ll […]

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Crime Stoppers increase reward amount in homicide

BONNEAU, S.C.–Investigators from the Berkeley County Sheriff’s Office found 79-year-old Artie Bradley’s body along a dirt road less than two miles away from his home two months ago. Berkeley County Coroner Bill Salisbury said a man and wife were traveling on a Francis Marion National Forest road around 3:30 p.m. Sunday June 2, 2013 when they found a body on […]

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Deputies seek help solving Cross man’s murder

CROSS, S.C.–Orangeburg County Sheriff Leroy Ravenell has released surveillance images of a suspect wanted in the fatal shooting on Bim Street in Holly Hill on Thursday, January 9. “Our investigation was able to produce surveillance images of the person who fatally shot a 32-year-old man from Cross. A 32-year-old Holly Hill man and a 29-year-old Moncks Corner man were also […]

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Sheriff releases new details in baby tossing case

BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C.–Orangeburg County Sheriff Leroy Ravenell is shedding new light on the case involving an infant girl found by the side of a road in rural Moncks Corner. The sheriff confirms they are, in fact, looking for multiple suspects. Ravenell stated that officers were called to a Catamont Road residence at approximately 3:55p.m. on Tuesday in reference to a […]

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One arrest made in Berkeley Co. baby tossing case

Orangeburg County Sheriff Leroy Ravenell has confirmed that one person has been arrested for the the kidnapping of a four-month-old. That baby was later found abandoned on the side of a road in Berkeley County fortunately unharmed. Rondell Johnson, 26, of Charleston is now charged with kidnapping, burglary, unlawful neglect of a child, and assault and battery. Ravenell stated that […]