...himself in a traffic court facility in Columbia on Friday.Mock died at Palmetto Health Richland hospital.Coroner Gary Watts says Mock had been arrested for disorderly conduct.The State Law Enforcement Division is investigating the hanging...

...Branch's van then hit a building and caught fire. Both he and Belton died at the scene, Richland County Coroner Gary Watts said. The taxi driver wasn't injured, and three passengers in Belton's car were sent to the hospital.Chamberlain...

...early Wednesday morning.The officers were able to perform CPR and resuscitate Grooms, but Richland County Coroner Gary Watts says he died Saturday afternoon at the hospital from complications from being under water.

...to them. But there's a lot in those reports that aren't related to that incident," said Richland County Coroner Gary Watts, who wasn't involved in the case that led to the lawsuit.Watts said he has never released a full autopsy report...

...Authorities say a man was killed after he was struck by a train near the zoo in Columbia.Richland County Coroner Gary Watts says 24-year-old David J. Fraccalvieri of Columbia died at around 9:15 p.m. Wednesday after he was struck by...

...Forty-four-year-old Michael Kenneth Peterson was picked up late Monday afternoon and charged with murder.Richland County Coroner Gary Watts says the victim was 54-year-old Brenda Witherspoon. The cause of death has not been released.Police had been called...

...co-workers found a note referring to a federal investigation into the association's finances,Richland County Coroner Gary Watts said it appears that Tom Sponseller killed himself with a gunshot to his head. Sponseller's body was found Tuesday...

...landlord contacted police after a next-door neighbor realized he had not seen her lights on in some time.Coroner Gary Watts said she died of hypothermia, probably about Feb. 20, and said he found indications of dementia. When she died...

...break up with the boyfriend she met on the Internet and get back jewelry she had given him. Richland County Coroner Gary Watts told the State newspaper of Columbia Monday he had used dental records to identify the remains as the body of Nikki McPhatter...

...the house. He says officials found a small leak in a nearby gas line and shut the line off. Richland County Coroner Gary Watts said that autopsy results on Mr. Boggs were inconclusive. Mr. Watts says he's still waiting on toxicology reports...