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  • 'Significant' Hargray outage blamed on cut cable

    Thousands of Hargray Communications customers in the Bluffton area lost TV, Internet and telephone service for most of the day Thursday when a fiber-optic cable was accidentally cut.

  • League official: One athletics program possible in Bluffton

    While there will soon be two high schools in Bluffton, many parents hope the schools can share one athletics program. According to S.C. High School League Commissioner Jerome Singleton, such a scenario is possible under league rules.

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A still image from video shows the scene of a truck that crashed into a home in Pelzer, SC.

3 killed, 1 arrested after crash, chase in Pelzer shooting + video

Anderson County authorities have released the names of three shot to death at a home in Pelzer.

Local

Fire displaces Hardeeville woman

A fire destroyed a Hardeeville home Wednesday and displaced a 73-year-old woman, according to the Hardeeville Fire & Rescue Department.

Crime & Public Safety

Hilton Head Island High School principal Amanda O'Nan speaks Feb. 14, 2014 during an interview after a meeting with the freshman and senior class about prescription drug abuse and what is being done to address it.

Xanax-abuse cases stop at Hilton Head High, principal says

While an investigation to determine how students got their hands on prescription medicine last month continues, incidents of drug abuse at Hilton Head Island High School have subsided, principal Amanda O'Nan said Thursday.

Sports

Whale Branch seniors Jay Abney, left, and Chavone Simmons are photographed at practice on Thursday. The two have been with the basketball program since it started in 2010.

Simmons, Abney hope for perfect ending to their Whale Branch basketball days

Chavone Simmons remembers the ring from his first meeting with Linc Lyles.

Living

Searching for love, in sickness and in health: Breast cancer patients find romance and support online

Trueheart4me was 5-foot-9, spiritual but not religious, and a social drinker, her Match.com profile read. She loved the water, traveling and a good belly laugh. 43 minutes ago

Entertainment

Lois and Bob Masteller on the stage of the Jazz Corner, which is celebrating its 15th anniversary.

The Jazz Corner celebrates 15 years of music, friends and spontaneity

When Bob and Lois Masteller first set out to open a jazz club on Hilton Head Island in the late '90s, most people thought they were crazy.

Opinion/Letters

Open minds needed on parking garage issue

If downtown Beaufort needs a parking garage -- or if its residents and business owners want one -- the Port Republic Square block recently purchased by the Beaufort Inn seems like the best place to put it.

Nation/World

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks at the Conservative Political Action Committee annual conference in National Harbor, Md., Thursday, March 6, 2014. Thursday marks the first day of the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, which brings together prospective presidential candidates, conservative opinion leaders and tea party activists from coast to coast.

GOP presidential hopefuls vie for clout with base

Republicans vying for the GOP presidential nomination in 2016 auditioned Thursday before some of the nation's most ardent conservative leaders, calling for the party to unite behind a clear agenda and draw contrasts with Democrats.

State

In this image made from video and released by Simon Besner, lifeguards rescue children from a minivan that their mother drove into the Atlantic, Tuesday, March 4, 2014 in Daytona Beach, Fla. Ebony Wilkerson, 31, a pregnant South Carolina woman who drove a minivan carrying her three young children into the ocean surf off Florida had talked about demons before leaving the house, according to her sister who worriedly called police, officials said during a news conference Wednesday. Bystanders and officers helped pull Wilkerson and her children, ages 3, 9 and 10, from their minivan. The children were turned over to welfare authorities. The Volusia County Sheriff's Office says Wilkerson was undergoing a mental evaluation.

Mother who drove into ocean of Fla. hospitalized

A pregnant South Carolina woman who drove a minivan carrying her three young children into the ocean surf off Florida is hospitalized for mental evaluation.