South Carolina

A telephone call from a hotel in Deptford Township led to the arrest of Voorhees resident Robert Murray, charged with human trafficking, promoting prostitution and assault.

Small armies of utility workers labored to turn the lights — and the heat — back on for hundreds of thousands of Southerners as a winter storm that left them without power threatened major cities further up the East Coast.

Drivers got caught in monumental traffic jams and abandoned their cars Wednesday in North Carolina in a replay of what happened in Atlanta just two weeks ago, as another wintry storm across the South iced highways and knocked out electricity to more than a half-million homes and businesses.

A suspect was arrested early Saturday and charged with murder in the fatal shooting of a student outside a dormitory at South Carolina State University,.

Several cars of the New York City-bound Amtrak Crescent carrying 218 passengers and crew members went off the tracks early Monday in South Carolina, but there were no serious injuries, authorities said.

Six people were found dead in a home by SWAT team members who stormed in after police unsuccessfully tried to make contact with someone after receiving a call from a man who said he was thinking about hurting himself.

Lottery machines across New Jersey cranked out thousands of tickets for Wednesday night's Powerball jackpot with an annuity value of $400 million, but no jackpot-winning tickets were sold in the Garden State.