The S.C. Department of Corrections is searching for an inmate who walked away from the minimum security Coastal Pre-Release Center in Charleston, on Monday. Vernon Edward Gardner, 42, was discovered missing from the institution about 12:30 p.m.

The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division has unveiled a new Web-based system for tracking registered sex offenders.

U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham says an innovative port security program that grew out of the 9/11 terror attacks will continue, thanks to a federal grant. Graham was joined Friday by state Law Enforcement Division director Reggie Lloyd and other officials in announcing Operation SeaHawk will continue.

WJBF News Channel 6 has learned that there has been a bomb threat at Midland Valley High School, Monday afternoon, according to Sgt. Dave Myers, with the Aiken County Sheriff’s Office.

According to Sgt. Dave Myers, the Aiken County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a burglary on the 500 block of Rainbow Falls Road, in Graniteville, SC. The burglary occurred on Thursday morning.

According to Josh Gelinas, the communications director for the South Carolina Department of Corrections the search is on for a minimum security inmate who walked away from Lower Savannah Pre-Release Center, in Aiken. Patrick Frazier, 22, was confirmed missing from the minimum security institution on Wire Road at 11:50 p.m. Thursday. UPDATE: Frazier has turned himself into the Aiken County Sheriff’s Office.

South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford has found himself in another controversy. On Tuesday, the governor and his driver were pulled over on Interstate 385 in the Upstate, for driving 85 mph in a 65 mph zone. The driver wasn’t ticketed, initially, but after further review from the SC Department of Public Safety, the driver has now been issued a ticket. WJBF News Channel 6’s SC Capitol reporter, Robert Kittle, and Joseph Kasko, have more.

The South Carolina Highway Patrol stopped South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford’s for speeding this week, but the trooper let the governor’s protective detail driver go without a ticket. The South Carolina Department of Public Safety’s director, Mark Keel, says after investigating the incident, the driver, who is a SLED agent, will now be ticketed. We have the raw dashcam video of the traffic stop.

Florence County Magistrate Belinda Timmons has denied bond for the third suspect charged in the death of a man and woman whose bodies were found on a Florence County dirt road

According to a release from the South Carolina State Law Enforcement Division (SLED), Andrae Odell Rice, 32, the former head football coach at Denmark-Olar High School has been arrested on charges stemming from alleged Unlawful Conduct Towards a Child.

A retired teacher has been arrested and charged with helping her students as they took a South Carolina achievement test last year.

The Aiken County Sheriff’s Office in coordination with the Aiken Department of Public Safety, and SLED, arrested three Augusta, GA. men early Monday morning for Burglary 1st Degree and being in Possession of a Weapon during the Commission of a Violent Crime, in connection with an Aiken County home invasion.

As the nation remembers the 9/11 terrorist attacks eight years ago, a lot of people may be wondering whether we’re any safer than we were just before those attacks. Law Enforcement officials in South Carolina say we are safer now. WJBF News Channel 6’s SC Capitol reporter, Robert Kittle, has more.

A South Carolina man has been arrested after authorities say he called Gov. Mark Sanford’s office and threatened to kill him. The State Law Enforcement Division says 39-year-old Brian MacDermant made the threat Wednesday to a member of Sanford’s staff.  SLED spokeswoman Jennifer Timmons says Macdermant didn’t give a specific reason for wanting to harm Sanford.

The State Law Enforcement Division is defending its recent spending of more than $600,000 on new vehicles and weapons, despite state budget cuts that forced the agency to lay off more than 100 people. WJBF News Channel 6’s SC Capitol reporter, Robert Kittle, has more.