2016 To Be Busy Election Year
As we approach the end of 2015, plans are being made for a busy election year coming up in 2016. Here in South Carolina we’ll have Presidential Preference Primaries in February, separate weeks for the...
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Trash Collection Changes – Clinton
A change of schedule and routes for city of Clinton sanitation services goes into effect on Monday, January 4th. In an effort to improve efficiency, the pick up of garbage as well as leaves and other...
View ArticleMan and Woman Charged with Assaulting Each Other
Deputy Jamie Edwards and Sgt. Ron Wood responded to Bob Gray Road, Gray Court at 2:47 Saturday afternoon. They found a man sitting on a couch in the living room with an injury to his eye. The woman of...
View ArticleMan Cut in Early Sunday Bar Incident
Laurens City Police responded to the hospital at 3:20 Sunday morning in reference to an assault that reportedly occurred at Rack-N-Roll on East Main. Officer Johnson reported observing a man bleeding...
View ArticleMan Charged in Two Domestic Assaults
Laurens Police Officers were dispatched to Garlington Street at 7:47 Saturday morning when an anonymous call reported hearing a male and female screaming in what sounded like a fight, and of a child...
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New Garbage Collection Routes Posted
A change of schedule and routes for city of Clinton sanitation services goes into effect in one week, on Monday, January 4th. In an effort to improve efficiency, the pick-up of garbage as well as...
View ArticleMeth Waste Found Near Cemetery
The Laurens County Sheriff’s Office was dispatched to Cemetery Road, Ware Shoals at 9:00 Christmas morning where a woman said she was picking up discarded artificial flowers behind the cemetery when...
View ArticleFriday Night Home Invasion
A report of a home invasion dispatched Laurens City Police to a residence in the 600 block of South Harper Extension at 10:50 Christmas night. Officer Melissa Johnson met with a woman who said she...
View ArticleDrug Charge Christmas Eve
Sheriff’s Deputy David Staton was on Watts Avenue at 8:33 pm Christmas Eve assisting Laurens City Police with an armed robbery investigation when he reportedly encountered three males walking in the...
View ArticleMan Charged with Threats by Gun
Laurens Police Sgt. Jody Thibodeau responded to 132 Jersey Street at 1:04 Saturday afternoon after receiving a report of a disturbance there. He arrived to find no one was home. Dispatch reached the...
View ArticleCNNGA Temporary Office Opens This Morning
The Clinton Newberry Natural Gas Authority is opening a temporary office this morning in the M.S. Bailey Municipal Building, Downtown Clinton. It will open at 8:00 am, accepting payments of bills. It...
View ArticleTwo Teens Charged with 2 Auto “Break-Ins”
A resident of Oaklawn Drive in Laurens called early Saturday morning about suspicious persons, saying her husband was following the subjects in his truck. Laurens Police were dispatched on the case at...
View ArticleAwards for Two P.T.C. Staff Members
Two members of Piedmont Technical College’s Workforce Development and Continuing Education division have been recognized for their outstanding work. The recognition came early this month from the South...
View ArticleUnpleasant Visit to Pick Up Clothing
Sheriff’s Officers were dispatched at 10:22 yesterday morning due to a dispute between a woman who lives in Clinton and her stepfather at his residence outside Laurens. She told Sgt. Carter she had...
View ArticleWho’s Living in There Now?
The Sheriff’s Office responded to a Western Laurens County residence near Ware Shoals at 5:40 last evening on a request from the property owner to check on someone possibly living in the technically...
View ArticleCPW Water Plant Wins Award
The Laurens CPW’s water treatment plant recently received a Water Fluoridation Quality Award from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The award noted the water plant’s efforts in 2014. News...
View ArticleBullet from One Apartment Into Another
The Sheriff’s Office was dispatched to an apartment outside Clinton at 9:08 last night to investigate what appears to be a case of a gun being fired from one apartment into another. A man advised...
View ArticleFacebook Dispute Moves to Clinton Streets
Clinton Public Safety responded to the Laurens County Memorial Hospital at 11:48 yesterday morning on a report of a man being treated for a stab injury to his hand. Officer Mercer reported observing a...
View ArticleSentenced on False Information to Police
Fountain Inn Police yesterday delivered 23-year-old Brittany Evon Moore Miles of 311 Hawkins Street, Wellford to the Laurens County Detention Center. She was served with a Bench Warrant from Fountain...
View ArticleTruck Theft Alleged
The Sheriff’s Office yesterday arrested a woman on allegations of her stealing a truck in Laurens County last month. 44-year-old Rebecca Ann Fowler of 537 Rogers Bridge Road, Duncan was charged with...
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