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postandcourier.com — Staff report A 25-year-old man received a 25-year prison sentence today after pleading guilty to breaking into a woman's Moncks Corner home and raping her while he was on satellite monitoring in 2011. Ninth Circuit Solicitor Scarlett A. Wilson said Brandon Bannister pleaded guilty to first-degree criminal sexual conduct and first-degree burglary.

postandcourier.com — It was started in North Carolina, but homebuilder Lael Building Group has uprooted its Winston-Salem headquarters and moved it to the Lowcountry to tap into the region's crop of up-and-coming buyers, officials said.

postandcourier.com — Citadel senior Austin Pritcher was named the Southern Conference pitcher of the year today in voting by league coaches and media. Pritcher, a 6-1, 200-pound right-hander from James Island, was 8-2 with a 2.45 earned-run average this season for the Bulldogs, who begin play in the SoCon Tournament on Wednesday in Greenville.

postandcourier.com — Newly sworn-in Rep. Mark Sanford is meeting with the State Ports Authority this morning. The 10 a.m. meeting, closed to media, was described by SPA officials as a routine information session about the state's port operations. Sanford is scheduled to speak with media following the meeting, which is being held at SPA's downtown Charleston headquarters.

postandcourier.com — Several craft breweries have sprung up across Charleston over the past few years. Now, mom-and-pop makers of the harder stuff are having their turn, drawn by the rebounding economy and legislative changes that South Carolina enacted several years ago. Brent Stephens left his law practice to start a new distillery, Charleston Distilling Co.

postandcourier.com — Newly sworn-in Rep. Mark Sanford is meeting with the State Ports Authority this morning. The 10 a.m. meeting, closed to media, was described by SPA officials as a routine information session about the state's port operations. Sanford is scheduled to speak with media following the meeting, which is being held at SPA's downtown Charleston headquarters.

postandcourier.com — GOOSE CREEK - John and Betty Hartgrove moved into the Foster's Creek section of the Liberty Hall Plantation in 2007, drawn largely by the neighborhood's sea of Charleston-style single homes. The architecture also lured Aaron Jagow roughly two years ago, and Tim and Fran Burke, who bought their home in 2007.

postandcourier.com — It's not unusual for a youth league baseball game to end in tears. Learning to deal with the disappointment of losing is as much a part of the game as pitching and hitting. But on a recent night on a Lowcountry ballfield, it wasn't a player who cried after the game.

postandcourier.com — Light streamed in from opposite ends of a cinder-block breezeway as Jamar Gathers moved toward the staircase inside Building 105. Gathers, 28, controlled most of the heroin that flowed through the corridors of Charleston's Bridgeview Village, and he wore his illicit success with pride.

postandcourier.com — EDISTO ISLAND - One of this area's few remaining slave cabins seemed certain to be lost to history. The two-room, wood-sided building, once one of dozens of similar cabins on Point of Pines plantation, had suffered from decades of neglect, a pronounced lean and lots of rot.