Cherokee County authorities are investigating a double stabbing near Blacksburg.

A fire rages through an Upstate man’s home.  He is woken up by his smoke detectors but he’s trapped.

A bullet to the heart fired by a North Carolina police officer killed the man authorities think was a serial killer responsible for five deaths in South Carolina this summer.

South Carolina is back among the list of states reporting the swine flu is widespread.

Two elementary school students were taken to a hospital after they were hit by a vehicle on Filter Plant Road in Gaffney Thursday morning. The superintendent for the school district, says - at this point - they’ve been told neither child suffered severe injuries.

Union County Sheriff’s deputies have captured a man that wore a Halloween mask and gloves while carrying a toy gun during a robbery at the First Citizens Bank in Jonesville Friday morning.

Jerry Case pleads guilty to a kidnapping and carjacking.

Rickey Allen Dixon, 52, of East Lime Street in Blacksburg died in the shooting according to the Cherokee County Coroner.

Senate panel wants only minor changes at DHEC.

South Carolina prison officials are looking for a Cherokee County inmate who walked away from her work release job. Nikita Brannon was sentenced to nearly eight years for selling crack near a school.

Thousands of new jobs to open up in Cherokee County.

Jetline, a supplier of customized promotional products, will locate a new facility in Gaffney. The company president tells News Channel 7 they will add 100 jobs over the next three months and up to 400 in the next five years.

Governor Mark Sanford will be in Gaffney Tuesday to announce a new business coming to the area.

Motorcyclists are traveling from Virginia to the Upstate to hone fallen Marine Lance Corporal Christopher Fowlkes.

A North Carolina utility plans to create a 620-acre lake to provide water for a proposed nuclear reactor in Cherokee County.