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Thursday, April 25, 2013  Authorities say a 20-year-old Clemson University student has been found dead at an off-campus apartment.

Friday, April 12, 2013  Preliminary damages for last month's Windsor Green condominium fire in the Carolina Forest area of Horry County are estimated at $15 million, according to Scott Hawkins, spokesman for the S.C. Forestry Commission.

Wednesday, April 10, 2013  Georgia-Pacific is celebrating the opening of a new mill that makes a building material used in construction.

Friday, April 05, 2013  Steven Drake, 30, a corrections officer at the Darlington County Detention Center, is accused of asking a female inmate to perform oral sex on him in a holding cell.

Wednesday, March 27, 2013  Dwaine Johnson, 19, was serving a six month sentence for throwing bodily fluids on a corrections officer at Kirkland Correctional Institution.

Saturday, March 23, 2013  Georgetown Police are looking for an inmate who was mistakenly released from prison this week.

Thursday, March 21, 2013  US Marshals caught Charles Dewayne Ransom in Northridge, California about 3 p.m. Wednesday. Police say he escaped from J. Reuben Long Detention Center on November 21, 2011.

Wednesday, March 20, 2013  Sheriff Sam Parker was indicted on misconduct charges.

Wednesday, March 20, 2013  Deputies are searching for an inmate who walked off from the Federal Correctional Institution Williamsburg County on Highway 521 in the Salters community.

Monday, March 18, 2013  A daring daylight jailbreak up a rope to a hovering helicopter is over for two Quebec inmates northwest of Montreal.

Friday, March 08, 2013  Authorities have captured an inmate they say walked away from a pre-release center in Charleston.

Friday, March 08, 2013  Authorities are looking for a South Carolina inmate they say walked away from a coastal pre-release center in Charleston.

Sunday, February 24, 2013  Supervisor Carlisle Roddey in Chester County says the grass might go uncut and county vehicles would no longer be repaired for just the cost of parts if he couldn't rely on state inmates for labor.

Tuesday, February 19, 2013  If you have ever wondered what goes into making a Sweetgrass basket, you can learn all about the techniques and history of the baskets this weekend.

Friday, February 01, 2013  US Marshals are looking for Noah Hilton Metz, 45, after he escaped from the Federal Correctional Institution in Bennettsville, according to Chris Burke, Federal Bureau of Prisons.