The S. C. Law Enforcement Division’s Forensic Services Laboratory has attained ISO 17025 International Accreditation through the American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors Laboratory Accreditation Board International Program, SLED announced today. “SLED’s Forensics Laboratory is the first and longest serving full service forensic laboratory in the state,” according to Major Todd Hughey, PhD., SLED’s laboratory director. “First accredited nationally in […]

MONCKS CORNER, S.C.–According to Berkeley County Coroner Bill Salisbury, shortly before 9 a.m. on Thursday,  Stephen Kuffel, 33, of Moncks Corner was working at Berkeley Scrap Metal in Moncks Corner. While there the coroner says he was using a cutting torch when an explosion took place. Kuffel was reportedly using the torch to cut the top out of a barrel […]

On Saturday, October 11, the American Red Cross will be kicking-off a new campaign in South Carolina and across the country to reduce deaths and injuries from home fires by as much as 25 percent over the next five years. The Red Cross campaign focuses on increasing the use of smoke alarms in neighborhoods with high numbers of home fires […]

According to a report by the Associated Press, South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson filed a petition late Wednesday afternoon with the state Supreme Court. In his petition, he is asking the state Supreme Court to stop a Charleston County judge from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. On Wednesday, Charleston County Probate Judge Irvin G. Condon began granting applications […]

BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C.—According to Berkeley Co. Sheriff’s Office Spokesperson Dan Moon, the department’s drug enforcement unit arrested six people and seized 25 firearms, along with illegal drugs, following the execution of search warrants at two residences on Rutt Lane in Goose Creek on Monday morning. Moon says the raids were carried out with the assistance of the Goose Creek Police […]

DANIEL ISLAND, S.C.—Bryan Brain, the committee chair for Daniel Island Troop 519, recently appeared on Radio Free Rocky D to discuss the trailers stolen from two separate Boy Scouts troops. “Who would steal from a church? That just never really came into our mind,” Brain told Rocky D. Recently, Brain says thieves stole their newly purchased trailer that they kept […]

BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C.—Authorities are investigating a deadly crash that occurred on Clements Ferry Road Sunday night. According to the South Carolina Highway Patrol, the accident happened shortly before 9 p.m. Troopers say the driver of a 1980 Oldsmobile was traveling on Clements Ferry when the car veered off the road and hit a utility pole. The driver, who was wearing […]