• Sara Lee to close SC bakery, lay off 200 workers
  Officials with Sara Lee Corp. says 200 workers in South Carolina will lose their jobs when the company closes its bread factory in Greenville.

• SC animal control officer faces cruelty charges
  An Anderson County animal control officer and his wife face 92 animal cruelty counts after 177 dogs, a cat and a bird were seized from their South Carolina home.

• SC beach town overturns council election results
  The Atlantic Beach Election Commission has overturned the results of balloting in the South Carolina beach town.

• Kids find body of missing SC teen on side of road
  A search for a missing South Carolina teenage has ended after children playing found her body dumped on the side of a road.

• 2 held in random killing of man along SC road
  Authorities say two people have been charged with killing a random victim on the side of a South Carolina road after deciding they wanted to kill someone.

• SC home day care operator gets 22 years in death
  A woman convicted of suffocating a baby in her home day care 11 years ago has been sentenced to 22 years in prison, and prosecutors are trying to decide if they will try her in two other infant deaths.

• UGA police charge former student in beating
  University of Georgia police have taken out warrants charging a former UGA student in connection with a complaint by a Clemson University student that he was beaten at a fraternity house.

• Annual lights display at SC zoo begins
  Riverbanks Zoo's annual Lights Before Christmas opens this weekend.

• More states add jobs, but many for temporary staff
  In a sharp improvement, more than half of U.S. states added jobs in October, though economists said many of the gains likely occurred in temporary employment.

• Three dozen people charged with cockfighting in SC
  Three dozen people have been arrested and accused of participating in cockfighting operations in two South Carolina counties.

• Jayson Williams plea hearing delayed indefinitely
  Retired NBA star Jayson Williams will not be in a New Jersey courtroom Friday to enter a plea in the 2002 shooting death of a hired driver.

• AP NewsBreak: SC lawmakers to take up impeachment
  South Carolina lawmakers plan to formally consider the possible impeachment of Gov. Mark Sanford for the first time next week.

• SC unemployment rises to 12.1 percent for October
  The unemployment rate in South Carolina rose nearly half a percentage point in October, returning to a record level of 12.1 percent set earlier this year, the state agency that calculates the rate said Friday.

• SC cops' response to call of armed man criticized
  Some residents are upset about the police response to a report of a man with a gun in a s South Carolina town where three people were shot to death earlier this month.

• SC State Farmers Market attracts 3 more vendors
  The new South Carolina State Farmers Market in Lexington County has attracted three more major vendors.

• Man pleads guilty to beating SC woman to death
  A South Carolina man has been sentenced to 36 years in prison in the beating death of his ex-girlfriend's mother last year.

• Massive generator's trip across SC almost complete
  Authorities say a huge generator being hauled across South Carolina to a North Carolina utility plant will be spending the next several days making it through one county.

• Boeing breaks ground for historic SC plant
  Work has officially started on building Boeing's $750 million aircraft assembly plant in South Carolina - the largest industrial investment in state history.

• Small SC county reels from corruption scandal
  When federal officials descended on this small South Carolina town to investigate a kickback scheme that had caught up the mayor and another official, they stumbled across a web of corruption they believe is deeper and more widespread through the county.

• Case of SC's '3 Hebrew Boys' heads to jury
  Three South Carolina men accused of bilking people out of more than $80 million lied about how they would invest their money, so it doesn't matter if investors knew it was risky, prosecutors said Thursday.

• SC jury finds '3 Hebrew Boys' guilty in scam
  A federal jury on Friday found three South Carolina men guilty of swindling more than $80 million from thousands of investors, many of whom prosecutors say fell victim to the Ponzi scheme because of their mounting debt.

• Man gets life for killing SC pawn shop owner
  A man who killed a South Carolina pawn shop owner, then fled to Canada to avoid the death penalty has been sentenced to life in prison without parole.

• SC lawmakers to take up impeachment of governor
  South Carolina lawmakers plan to formally consider impeaching Gov. Mark Sanford for the first time next week, the chairman of the committee beginning that work said Friday.

• SC man gets 2nd death sentence in crime outbreak
  A South Carolina man already on death row has been sentenced to die again.

• SC chief justice gets another traffic ticket
  South Carolina Chief Justice Jean Toal has paid a fine of more than $80 after getting a speeding ticket.