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.

The South Carolina Highway Patrol announces that a state trooper has been killed in a motor vehicle collision in Kershaw County Saturday morning. Jonathan S. Nash, 41, died Saturday around 10:00 a.m. on U.S. 1 in Camden while escorting a charity ride in honor of Trooper Hardy M. Godbold, who was killed in the line of duty in 1992.

South Carolina is joining in the nationwide effort to prevent accidents at railroad crossings across the state.

Survey finds 81.5 percent of motorists in South Carolina are buckling up.

According to a release from the South Carolina Department of Public safety, a preliminary number of eleven people were killed on South Carolina highways over the Fourth of July weekend which ran from Thursday, July 2, at 6 p.m. until Sunday, July 5, at midnight.

The South Carolina Department of Public Safety is helping organizing a blood drive in memory of those killed in accidents on the state’s highways. The South Carolina Highway Patrol is one of several groups hosting a blood drive in Charleston on Friday.

The state of South Carolina has put up new highway signs and is running public service announcements on television to make sure everyone knows about a law that’s been on the book for years. It’s called the “Move Over” law, which requires drivers to move over if possible, or at least slow down, when they come upon an emergency vehicle that’s stopped on the side of the road. WJBF News Channel 6’s SC Capitol reporter, Robert Kittle, has more.

The “Move Over, America” campaign is hitting South Carolina. The purpose of the effort is to help protect the law enforcement and emergency response officers who risk their lives protecting the public.

The South Carolina Department of Public Safety (SCDPS) announced Thursday, June 4, 2009 that Lance Corporal Lisa M. Lindler, of the South Carolina Highway Patrol, was fired after being arrested and charged for Driving Under the Influence and having an open container of alcohol in her private vehicle.

In an e-mail to WJBF News Channel 6, the South Carolina Highway Patrol (SCHP) announces that a trooper has died overnight in a house fire at his residence. Senior Trooper Andrew C. McInville, 26, died around 1 a.m. after a fire at his Timmonsville, SC home, located on Country Lane Road.

Buckle up, South Carolina. That’s the theme of a campaign kicking off Friday from the South Carolina Department of Public Safety’s Office of Highway Safety.

The South Carolina Senate voted 32-14 Wednesday afternoon to pass a state budget that includes $350 million in federal stimulus money. It also requires Gov. Mark Sanford to request the money within five days of the budget becoming law, either by his signature or lawmakers overriding his vetoes. WJBF News Channel 6’s SC Capitol reporter, Robert Kittle, has more.

The ongoing budget fight between Gov. Mark Sanford and state lawmakers took on a new focus Monday: security. Standing outside an empty guard post on the edge of the Statehouse grounds, Gov. Sanford said Statehouse security spending in the Senate budget is just one example of inefficiency and waste. WJBF News Channel 6’s SC Capitol reporter, Robert Kittle, has more.

A Greenville County man, who was the CEO of SDI Networks, has been sought after he allegedly drove his maserati into a Travelers Rest, SC home, killing a man inside. According to the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, and our sister station in Spartanburg, WSPA, John Gilbert Ludwig, Jr., has been captured in Lincoln County.

Even though Gov. Mark Sanford has said he will not request $350 million in federal stimulus money for this year’s budget unless it’s used to pay down debt, state senators worked on a budget Wednesday that would spend that money anyway. The Senate budget would use the $350 million for education and law enforcement to prevent major cuts in those areas. WJBF News Channel 6’s SC Capitol reporter, Robert Kittle, has more.