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During one of the busiest travel times of the year, the South Carolina Department of Public Safety (SCDPS) urges drivers to prioritize safety this Thanksgiving holiday week by buckling up, putting away distractions, slowing down, and driving sober.

The Greenville County Sheriff's Office says a boy called 911 Monday evening saying they had been lost for three hours, sparking a search involving dozens of people with drones, helicopters, offroad vehicles and dogs.

Yusef Jackson said Tuesday that his father was discharged from Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago.

The South Carolina Department of Public Health says three more people in the Upstate have become ill, bringing the total number of measles cases in the current outbreak to 55. The department encourages the public to be mindful amid the holiday season.

The makers of ByHeart infant formula say tests of products tied to a botulism outbreak show that all of the company's products may have been contaminated. At least 31 babies in 15 states have been sickened in the outbreak that began in August.

The philanthropic arm of Wells Fargo is providing $600,000 to the South Carolina Research Authority to fund the Cultivating Innovation in SC Agribusiness grant program.

Deputies responded to a home on Wilson Rd. in Newberry shortly after 6:30 p.m. Sunday following reports of a shooting involving a young child.

The U.S. flu season is starting slowly, and it’s not clear if it will be as bad as last winter’s. But some health experts are worried about a new type of flu virus and flagging vaccination efforts.

In a Facebook post Sunday, the Summerton Food Bank announced its food storage area had been broken into resulting in a variety of goods being stolen.

Three more more people have contracted measles in the Upstate. Two of the cases are from known illnesses in the same household. The origin of the third has not yet been determined.