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Thursday, May 16, 2024
BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C.–One person is dead following a car accident Friday night in Berkeley County. According to South Carolina Highway Patrol, the two-vehicle crash occurred before 7 p.m. at the intersection of U.S. Highway 176 and Mudville Road near Ridgeville. The identity of the victim has not yet been released by the Berkeley County Coroner’s Office. More details will be […]
BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C.–Authorities are on the lookout for a driver who struck and killed a pedestrian and left the scene. According to the South Carolina Highway Patrol, the incident occurred shortly before midnight on Queenie Road in Berkeley County. The Berkeley County Coroner’s Office has identified the victim as 39-year-old Taslib Caliph of Moncks Corner. Troopers with SCHP say the type […]
GOOSE CREEK, S.C.–Nearly 1.7 million people will be diagnosed with cancer in 2017, according to the American Cancer Society. For one young man recently diagnosed with the disease, he is not letting it slow him down. Spencer Nieto of Goose Creek became the recipient of the Colonel P.F. Thompson Outstanding Achievement Award following his graduation Wednesday from the South Carolina Highway […]
BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C.–A mother and her young son lost their lives Sunday after their vehicle left the roadway and became partly submerged in water, according to Berkeley County Coroner Bill Salisbury. On Sunday, February 26, 2017, at 12:10 a.m., the coroner stated that a vehicle traveling east on I-26 near mile marker 188 overturned several times and went down an […]
HANAHAN, S.C.–A biker has died following injuries he received during a traffic collision. On Saturday around 7:05 p.m. Bryon Bouton Leatherwood, 22, of Hanahan was riding his motorcycle on Railroad Avenue when he collided with a vehicle. He was pronounced dead on the scene. He was wearing his helmet, Salisbury stated. Lauren Ann Nolan, 40, of North Charleston has been charged with […]
GOOSE CREEK, S.C.–A Berkeley County school bus driver was arrested in Newberry County on Sunday evening and charged with DUI, according to Sgt. Bob Beres with the South Carolina Highway Patrol. On February 19th shortly after 7:00 p.m. SCHP troopers stated that they met a school bus on SC 34 in Newberry County that was traveling eastbound in the westbound lane and […]
ST. STEPHEN, S.C.–One person is dead following a traffic accident in St. Stephen, according to troopers with the South Carolina Highway Patrol. Lance Cpl. Sonny Collins stated that the driver of a 2005 Ford pickup was traveling west when he struck and killed a pedestrian around 12:30 a.m. on Tuesday. Authorities say the accident took place on U.S. Highway 52 […]
BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C.–Deputies from the Berkeley County Sheriff’s Office are investigating a traffic crash involving a marked South Carolina Highway Patrol vehicle, Chief Deputy Mike Cochran confirmed. The single vehicle crash happened on Sunday evening, just after 10 p.m. on Cooper Store Road, he said. Cochran added that the SCHP trooper was travelling from Highway 176 on Cooper Store Road near […]
HANAHAN, S.C.–According to the South Carolina Highway Patrol, a Charleston man has been charged in connection with a traffic collision that claimed the life of a 25-year-old Hanahan woman on Sunday. Jacquan Terrinado Spann, 27, has been charged with speeding, failure to stop for blue lights resulting in death, felony DUI resulting in death, possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, driving […]
BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C.–According to Berkeley County Coroner Bill Salisbury, on Friday 9:15 p.m. 67 year old Paul Joseph Escritt, of Moncks Corner, was struck by a vehicle on South Live Oak Dr. He was pronounced dead on the scene by Coroner Bill Salisbury. “Mr. Escritt was crossing the roadway when he was struck,” stated Salisbury. His death was ruled accidental […]
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