An Augusta teen is spending his second week in jail on child cruelty charges for allegedly hitting his 11-year-old sister with a belt. Stanley Jamar Lomax Jr., 17, was arrested last weekend for first-degree cruelty to children, and he remained there Sunday in the Charles B. Webster Detention Center under no bond. Richmond County deputies...

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.