Edgefield County investigators made a grim discovery Thursday morning when they found the body of 78-year-old James Wheeler, a North Augusta man reported missing in June. His daughter has now been charged with his murder.

A man found dead Tuesday evening along the Congaree River in Columbia, S.C., has been identified as 38-year-old Addison L. Brown, a former Richmond County Sheriff’s deputy who was fired and arrested earlier this year for allegedly lying about an arrest.

A homeless felon, recently released from prison, was arrested Wednesday in the brutal murder of an elderly homeless man behind a Chevron gas station on Laney Walker Boulevard. Jeffrey Eutsay, 43, was charged with murder in the death of Charlie Creech, 70. Creech’s body was found wrapped in a blanket and covered with leaves behind...