South Carolina’s Parole and Pardons board unanimously pardoned two great-uncles of national radio host Tom Joyner Wednesday. Thomas and Meeks Griffin were convicted of the 1913 murder of a white farmer in Chester County. Joyner came to Columbia from Dallas to plead their case. WJBF News Channel 6’s SC Capitol reporter, Robert Kittle, has more.

South Carolina’s Parole and Pardons board unanimously pardoned two great-uncles of national radio host Tom Joyner Wednesday. Thomas and Meeks Griffin were convicted of the 1913 murder of a white farmer in Chester County. Joyner came to Columbia from Dallas to plead their case. WJBF News Channel 6’s SC Capitol reporter, Robert Kittle, has more.

A Citadel professor who worked on the project to shoot the moon says he was excited when a rocket stage and satellite crashed into a moon crater. Luke Sollitt says the main objective of the Friday mission was to hit the crater near the south pole of the moon. He says it could be days or longer before data is analyzed to see if water was found there.

Authorities say four people found slain in a small Virginia college town were killed by blows to the head, and they expect to file additional charges against an aspiring California rapper suspected of killing them.

Authorities are carrying out a court-ordered euthanization of dogs believed to be part of a pack that killed a couple in northeast Georgia. By Tuesday evening, 11 dogs and 5 puppies had been taken to the Madison-Oglethorpe animal shelter as part of a round-up of dogs that might have been involved.

Authorities have identified a couple found dead along a road in rural Oglethorpe County. Authorities say the couple found dead by Jehovah’s Witnesses Saturday morning were 77-year-old Lothar Karl Schweder and his wife, 65-year-old Sherry L. Schweder.

Some savvy shoppers are not waiting for the sales tax free weekend in order to save some money. Some say, by watching for sales, you can save just as much, or more, ahead of the weekend. WJBF News Channel 6’s SC Capitol reporter, Robert Kittle, explains.

An Athens-based agency that helps battered women says a University of Georgia professor’s April 25 shooting of his wife, two others and himself has increased the number of women reaching out for help. Project Safe’s hotlines received about 116 calls a month in 2008 and through this April.

Documents from a police investigation into the former University of Georgia professor who fatally shot his wife and two others show he had secretly recorded a conversation between he and his wife about her affair with one of the men killed.

The family of the former University of Georgia professor accused of fatally shooting his wife and two others hasn’t claimed his body. Georgia Bureau of Investigation spokesman John Bankhead said George Zinkhan’s body is in a cooler at the agency’s medical examiner’s office in Decatur.

An Athens community theater troupe is vowing a return to the stage this summer after three of its members were fatally shot by a University of Georgia professor last month. The Town & Gown Players said in a statement Wednesday their schedule will resume July 10 with a production of Neil Simon’s “Fools.“

Police say a wanted University of Georgia professor found dead in the woods over the weekend shot himself but left no suicide note.

Officials have confirmed a body found in the north Georgia woods is that of a professor wanted for killing his wife and two other people at a community theater two weeks ago. Officials say the Georgia Bureau of Investigation crime lab confirmed Saturday that the body is 57-year-old University of Georgia marketing professor George Zinkhan.

According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, two revised sketches of UGA shooting suspect George Zinkhan may make it easier to spot him even if he has shaved off his hair or beard, said the Georgia Bureau of Investigation artist who developed the different looks for Athens police investigators.

Athens-Clarke County police say they’ve found the passport of a University of Georgia professor suspected of killing his wife and two others outside a community theater. Capt. Clarence Holeman confirmed Monday that the passport of George Zinkhan was found inside the wrecked Jeep uncovered in a ravine a few miles from his home Friday. Authorities say the marketing professor never showed up Saturday for a flight he had scheduled to Amsterdam prior to the April 25 shootings.