Since the tragic death of their son, South Carolina Highway Patrol Senior Trooper Michael Rao, in 2002, Salvatore and Lois Rao turned their grief into a mission to honor fallen officers and ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - The parents of a state trooper who died in 2002 have been awarded the Order of the Palmetto ... as liaisons for family members of fallen South Carolina troopers, and they ...