A convicted drug dealer who police say shot and killed a 12-year-old South Carolina trick-or-treater is set to plead guilty to a federal weapons charge. Quentin Patrick is expected to plead guilty Tuesday afternoon in federal court in Columbia after a morning session was postponed.

Authorities say a former South Carolina police chief will serve three years of probation after pleading guilty to misconduct in office.

The South Carolina teenager accused of plotting to blow up his high school is expected to plead guilty to federal explosives charges. Prosecutors and defense attorneys say 19-year-old Ryan Anthony Schallenberger will change his plea to guilty during a hearing in Florence Wednesday. Update: Schallenberger has agreed to serve 10 years in prison.

Attorneys for the South Carolina teenager accused of plotting to blow up his high school say their client will plead guilty to federal charges next week. Attorneys for 19-year-old Ryan Schallenberger would not say after a brief hearing in Florence on Friday which charges would be part of a plea agreement.

The manager of a South Carolina poultry plant where hundreds of suspected illegal immigrants were rounded up last year has pleaded not guilty to federal charges.

A Salley, South Carolina man pled guilty to several sex crimes on Wednesday, even though they actually happened in the late 70’s and early 80’s, according to the ‘Aiken Standard’.

The operator of a South Carolina daycare center has pleaded guilty in the death of an infant left in a hot van two years ago.

A man who pleaded guilty to unlawful conduct toward a child in the drowning death of a mildly autistic South Carolina boy will serve two years probation.

The trial of a former South Carolina high school band director is scheduled to begin Monday.

Bernard Madoff has been sentenced to 150 years in prison for his multibillion-dollar fraud scheme. U.S. District Judge Denny Chin handed down the sentenced in New York on Monday.

A dump truck driver who hit and killed a hospital chaplain in April has been sentenced to two years probation.

An Augusta woman could get 15 years in prison for credit card fraud, and identity theft. Vickie Parks Shepard pled guilty in federal court, on Wednesday.

Mississippi basketball coach Andy Kennedy has pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of disorderly conduct in his cab driver assault case. Kennedy avoided trial and possible jail time with the plea deal Monday in Hamilton County Municipal Court in Cincinnati. He will be on probation for six months and must perform 40 hours of community service.

According to a press release e-mailed to WJBF News Channel 6, Edmund A. Booth, Jr., United States Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia, announced that Daniel Webster Cason, the Public Works Director for the City of Harlem, Georgia who is responsible for the operation of that city’s Wastewater Treatment Plant, entered a plea of guilty today in U.S. District Court in Augusta before U. S. District Judge J. Randal Hall to three counts of making false statements in records and reports regarding the Treatment Plant’s measurements of fecal coliform and biochemical oxygen demand in violation of Title 33, United States Code, Section 1319(c)(4).

Former Atlanta Falcons linebacker Ken Tippins has been sentenced to four years in prison after pleading guilty to cocaine possession. Alapaha Chief Assistant District Attorney Charles Stines says Tippins will serve four years followed by six years of probation. In exchange for the cocaine plea, a marijuana possession with intent to distribute charge was dropped.