Two Woman Charged with Meth Manufacture
The Laurens County Sheriff’s Office arrested two Laurens women yesterday on methamphetamine manufacturing charges in connection with alleged activity at a Clinton area location. 49-year-old Patricia...
View ArticleComplete Streets for Clinton
A “Complete Streets” Resolution was approved by Clinton City Council at their monthly meeting Monday night. City Manager Frank Stovall noted that during the July Council meeting a group of citizens...
View ArticlePrayer for School Year Set for Thursday
The 4th Annual “Prayer Gathering” for School District 56 has been announced for next week. The past three years people from the community have joined pastors, teachers and political leaders for a...
View ArticlePolice Detour on Trip Home
Two next-door-neighbors from Union are now facing drug charges following a traffic stop in Clinton yesterday. Clinton Public Safety Officer Thomas Peay reported he was conducting stationary radar on...
View ArticleSuccessful Mix of Country Music & Beer
Country Music and Beer have a long history of mutual association. Many songs have been about beer, and many millions of beers have been consumed while listening to country music. Last night, for...
View ArticleCrowd Didn’t Like Pepper Spray
Laurens Police dispatched to Club Fruit at 658 North Harper at 2:58 Saturday morning on a report of a disturbance. A fight reportedly broke out at the front door as the club was letting out for the...
View ArticleSC Senator Has Response to the President
South Carolina’s Junior US Senator Tim Scott delivered the weekly Republican Response to the President’s radio talk this past weekend. Senator Scott took the Obama Administration to task for blocking...
View ArticleOut on Bond, Now Back for More Drug Charges
The Laurens County Sheriff’s Office executed a search warrant Friday at 261 Old Airport Road, outside Laurens. During execution of the search warrant deputies reportedly located items used in the...
View ArticleAlleged Attempt to Murder Three
The Laurens County Sheriff’s Office arrested a Laurens area man Friday for allegedly attempting to murder three people in an incident on August 4th. 27-year-old Randy Alexander James of 31 East Patton...
View ArticlePositive Economic News
There was some indication of improving economic conditions for the Laurens area during discussion at yesterday’s Laurens Commission of Public Works meeting. CPW General Manager Dale Satterfield...
View ArticleDrug & Firearm Charges on Two Men
Clinton Public Safety arrested two Laurens men yesterday morning following an altercation at Landau Apartments. One man is charged with possessing marijuana with intent to distribute it, while...
View ArticleTook My Stereo, GPS & Even MY Bucket
A Gray Court man met with a Sheriff’s officer Tuesday morning and told of a theft from his vehicle on Spring Street. He indicated the dogs making a lot of noise woke him around 12:30 am. He went to...
View ArticleArrest from Alleged Assault
Laurens Police made an arrest yesterday afternoon in connection with an alleged assault early Monday afternoon at Laurens Villa. 29-year-old Cody Shane Bulloch of Apt 5-B at 309 Exchange Drive,...
View ArticleClinton Charges Man with Failure to Stop
Clinton Public Safety Tuesday yesterday served charges on a man in connection with a police chase the previous evening. 22-year-old Joshua Tyrell Cunningham of 157 Wisteria Avenue, Clinton was charged...
View ArticleIs That Bracelet Legal?
Laurens County Council last evening gave unanimous approval for the Sheriff’s Office seeking a 2013 Justice Assistance Grant, but not without clarification on one of the items to be purchased by the...
View Article$2.6 Million Fire Budget Approved
This year’s Laurens County Fire Budget was approved by County Council last evening following a public hearing. Third reading approval of Ordinance #756 sets the county fire budgets with an increase...
View ArticleMan Holds Three Alleged Burglars at Gunpoint
The Laurens County Sheriff’s Deputies were dispatched Code 3 at 7:16 last evening to a Burglary on Jones Road, Fountain Inn. Central Dispatch advised officers that a man was on the phone with 911...
View ArticleOne Man Shoots Another During Card Game
Master Patrolman Patrick Craven responded to 510 Hunter’s Court at 1:19 this morning. Officer Craven arrived to observe one man slumped over the left arm rest of a tan recliner. The victim said he...
View ArticleSCHP Works to Reduce DUI Fatalities
The South Carolina Department of Public Safety joined local law enforcement around the state yesterday announcing the beginning of an impaired driving crackdown that will include both a strong...
View Article3 Charged with Burglary 2nd Degree
Three Simpsonville – Fountain Inn area residents who were reportedly held at gunpoint by a property owner after allegedly breaking into his garage have now been charged in connection with the Tuesday...
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