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A 16-year-old was arrested after allegedly making threats against a Dillon high school, according to officials with the Dillon Police Department.

Lawmakers in at least six states are considering longer prison sentences or bigger fines for harming or killing police dogs despite questions about how the animals are used and a fraught history.

State police in South Carolina are investigating fatal police shootings this week in North Charleston and in Greenville. Authorities said the suspects in both cases were armed.

Body camera video of a deputy who was fired and arrested in South Carolina shows him punching a man several times in the head after a car chase. The man is knocked briefly unconscious and the officer asks after handcuffing him if he enjoyed his nap. Charleston County deputy James “Hank” Carter III is charged with misdemeanor assault and battery and misconduct in office.

Authorities say about a half-dozen deputies shot and killed a man who fired at them multiple times during a standoff at a South Carolina home. Richland County deputies say the standoff started about 9 a.m. Monday when a utility worker came to the man's property to do work and he forced her to leave at gunpoint. Investigators say the man then shot at two deputies who were sent to the home in northeast Richland County. Authorities say after refusing to talk to them for over an hour, the man came outside and started shooting at deputies.

OCSO is the first local law enforcement agency in the Upstate to adopt Prepared Live. Officers say it has the potential to be a game changer for public safety.

A lawsuit claims officers fired approximately 50 rounds at a despondent man on what was supposed to be a wellness check. The sheriff's office claims officers reacted appropriately to a man with a gun.

The new law will require each police department that is not already accredited to be evaluated at least once every three years by the state’s Law Enforcement Training council to insure they are in compliance with a new set of minimum standards concerning use of force.

Authorities say the man who killed a police officer in South Carolina responding to a domestic violence call tracked the officer from upstairs in his home with a rifle before firing the fatal shot. Cayce Police Chief Chris Cowen says then as other officers tried to drag officer Drew Barr to a patrol car so he could get medical help, the man fired a second shot. Cowen says 36-year-old Austin Leigh Henderson was calculated and murdered his officer on Saturday. The chief says Henderson then put his wife and daughter into a closet and held them hostage and police at bay for about seven hours before killing himself with a gunshot to the head.

Staff levels at South Carolina's police departments are as low as some in law enforcement have ever seen. The problem is a tangle of public pressure, diversity, value, worth, respect, and money.The answer may be idealism. And money.