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The woman and her husband were asleep in bed when the attack happened, according to the Lexington County Sheriff’s Department.

A man has been charged after assaulting a woman who was asleep inside a home he broke into early Monday morning, according to Lexington County deputies.

A 14-year-old boy in Chapin was charged under recently passed "Gavins Law," which makes sexual extortion a felony offense. Lexington Sheriff Jay Koon said the teen threatened a female classmate

The South Carolina teen, who allegedly threatened to release doctored nude images of a female classmate, will be one of the first to be charged under a new law criminalizing sexual extortion.

The Lexington County Sheriff’s Department placed three officers on administrative leave after Bernice Junior Smith’s death near Red Bank.

The cause of death for the 32-year-old man who died after Lexington deputies used a stun gun to detain was due to multi-drug toxicity.

A 14-year-old boy is the first person in Lexington County to be charged under a new law that aims to fight sexual extortion, authorities say.

The cause of death for the 32-year-old man who died after Lexington deputies used a stun gun to detain was due to multi-drug toxicity.

Other witnesses who were at the home were not harmed, investigators say

Lexington County Sheriffs deputies arrested and charged a 25-year-old man in connection with the fatal shooting of Gervamieon Moody early on Sept. 23. Moody was 24.