Clinton Creates Zoning for Heavy Industry
Clinton City Council was asked to consider an amendment to the city’s zoning ordinance last night. Stephen Taylor, Director of Community and Economic Development, explained that the current zoning...
View ArticleCan’t Open New Account with a Bad Check
Clinton Public Safety responded to a bank on South Harper at 4:01 yesterday afternoon to investigate a possible fraudulent check. A woman had reportedly attempted to open a bank account, but the check...
View ArticleCity Council Vote Echos School Trustees
WLBG News recently reported on last week’s vote by the Laurens County School District 56 Board of Trustees approving a new class concept for providing firefighter certification training at Clinton High...
View ArticleArmed Robbery in Clinton Last Night
Clinton Public Safety investigated a report of an Armed Robbery on Lee Street last night. It reportedly occurred between 10:50 and 11;00 pm. The victim came to the police department to report the...
View ArticleMan Charged with Two Home Break-Ins
A Laurens man was arrested yesterday on charges that he broke into two Gray Court area homes last month. 46-year-old Phillip Bedell Metz Sr. of 632 Tanquil Drive, Laurens was charged with two counts of...
View ArticlePC Pharmacy Professor Wins $330,000 Grant
Presbyterian College has announced that PC School of Pharmacy (PCSP) Associate Professor and Director of Research Dr. Edgar Alfonso Romero-Sandoval has been awarded an R15 $330,000 National Institutes...
View Article“Thank You” from Bailey Manor
A thank you was given during this week’s Clinton City Council meeting. Rita Stanley, administrator of Bailey Manor, tearfully told council that last week’s emergency at Bailey Manor could have been a...
View ArticlePossession with Intent to Distribute Six Drugs
Clinton Public Safety has charged two men with possessing multiple controlled substances with intent to distribute them. Arrested Tuesday were 33-year-old Jonathan Scott Epting of 115 East Patton Road,...
View ArticleWhy So Nervous?
Deputy Sheriff Jeremy McMahan was on patrol on Chapman Road, Fountain Inn shortly before 1:00 yesterday afternoon when he observed a Crown Vic turn onto Chapman Road from South Main Street without...
View ArticleSuspects Shoes Didn’t Match
Laurens City Police received a report at 5:16 yesterday afternoon of a break-in at a house on Moreland Avenue. A woman reported a Taurus .38 pistol and a Nikon camera were taken from a nightstand in...
View ArticleTelephone Harassment
Following his arrest Wednesday, 22-year-old Kevin Boyce Patterson of 1080 Fuller Road, Clinton was served yesterday with Unlawful Use of a Telephone for an alleged offense on Wednesday. Lt. Robbie...
View ArticleCouncil Hears Concerns about a Trailer Park
Concerns about a Trailer Park were expressed to Clinton City Council at their meeting this week. Clinton resident Betty Wallenzine addressed council Tuesday evening about issues revolving around...
View ArticleStrong Armed Robbery & Assault
A Laurens man was charged yesterday with an assault during a robbery on Tuesday. 24-year-old Sirvocholia Leavent Green of 461 Winetta Street, Laurens was charged with Strong Armed Robbery and with...
View ArticleFour Charged with Meth at Wattsville House
Four people who were arrested Wednesday and held for warrants from Narcotics Investigator Matt Veal were served with those warrants yesterday, alleging they conspired to manufacture methamphetamine in...
View ArticleStalking & Damaging Property for Metals
Clinton Public Safety picked up a local resident on his release from a detention center in the Midlands. He was served yesterday with 15 warrants. 41-year-old Keith Jermaine Price of 302 East Florida...
View ArticleFatality Update
A Gray Court teen was one of seven persons killed on South Carolina roadways last weekend. The State Department of Public Safety announced that total yesterday, from Friday evening through midnight...
View ArticleDrug Charges on People Held Pending Warrants
Methamphetamine Manufacturing charges were served yesterday on a man and woman delivered to the Johnson Detention Center overnight, after an alleged meth lab investigation at their residence Sunday...
View ArticleDrug Charge to Follow 3:00 AM Traffic Stop
Laurens County Deputies overnight were patrolling an area in Western Laurens County for a man wanted for an assault on a Ware Shoals Police Officer over the weekend. They didn’t observe the young man...
View ArticleNew Billing System, Natural Gas Safety
Laurens CPW Customers are seeing changes when they receive their bills this month. General Manager John Young updated the Commissioners last evening on the Customer Care & Billing software now...
View ArticleGame Over, Phone Gone
A Clinton woman came to the Public Safety office at 10:37 last night reporting her cell phone as stolen. She said she was playing basketball in Oak Street Park and had left her cell phone charging on a...
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