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This was a once-in-a-lifetime experience! We found these baby albino American Alligators in the wild. A sight hardly ever seen, and probably never before filmed.

'Coastal Kingdom' episode to focus on gators

The latest episode of the nature series "Coastal Kingdom" will air at 8 p.m. Wednesday on the County Channel.

Crime & Public Safety

Beaufort County Sheriff Office deputies block Reflection Cove Court at Crooked Pond with vehicles and police tape July 30, 2014, in Hilton Head Plantation on Hilton Head Island while investigating a death.

Authorities investigating death in Hilton Head Plantation home

The Beaufort County Sheriff's Office is investigating a death inside a Hilton Head Island gated community.

Sports

From left, Wofford football coach Mike Ayers, Furman's Bruce Fowler, The Citadel's Mike Houston, South Carolina State's Buddy Pough, USC's Steve Spurrier, and Clemson's Dabo Swinney at Fisher DeBerry's Coaches for Charity event Wednesday night at the downtown Marriott. 7/30/14

Spurrier and Swinney have a laugh or two as they help raise money for charities

No planetary discussions this time. Just good-natured hobnobbing to aid a great cause.

Living

The Savannah-themed episode of "American Grilled" premieres at 9 p.m. July 30 on the Travel Channel.

Pressure is on for cooks in Savannah episode of Travel Channel's 'American Grilled'

Twenty minutes is not much time to grill a meal.

Entertainment

This image released by SundanceTV shows, from left, Eve Best, Tobias Menzies, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Genevieve O'Reilly in a scene from "The Honorable Woman," an eight-hour miniseries premiering Thursday at 10 p.m. EDT. The series is a virtuoso effort by Hugo Blick, who both wrote and directed it.

Maggie Gyllenhaal glows as 'The Honorable Woman'

"The Honorable Woman" is a meditative thriller that investigates a woman's inner life and a global hot spot. Poised between dream-state and tough reality, it exposes timeless truths while remaining as current as the next Israeli-Palestinian clash.

Opinion/Letters

South Carolina needs real control on waters

South Carolina needs to better regulate the harvest of blue crabs.

Nation/World

Appeals court rejects lawsuit by alleged military sexual assault victims

A top civilian appeals court on Friday bluntly rejected efforts by alleged military sexual assault victims to sue former officials.

State

Man wants ancestor's heroic deed remembered

Nearly 70 years ago, a sharecropper named Ansel James rescued Grover Mackey after he became trapped in a 50-foot-deep well on a farm near Salley. For his brave effort, James received a bronze medal from the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission.