Tribble Released on Bond
20-year-old Jakesha Lisette Tribble of 105 Milling Street, Clinton was placed in the Johnson Detention Center yesterday morning, following her arrest by Clinton Public Safety Monday night. She was...
View Article‘Burglary Tools’ Confiscated
A man who was held overnight was charged yesterday with an attempted theft. Clinton Public Safety arrested 41-year-old Christopher Bernard Davis of 1623 Davis Street, Clinton and have now charged him...
View ArticleGunfire to Setzler Road Residence
Gunshot damage to a Laurens area home is under investigation of the Sheriff’s Office. Lt. Kenneth Richards was dispatched to the residence on Setzler Road at 5:22 yesterday afternoon and he reported...
View ArticleFire Budget Gets 4-2 Vote on 1st Reading
Laurens County Council last night gave 1st reading approval for Ordinance #770, which proposes 18 mills for operating county fire services over the next year. The millage includes 1.9 mills for the...
View ArticleDriver Charged After Passenger Jumps
Clinton Public Safety was dispatched to Highway 56 at Springdale at 10:17 yesterday morning on an EMS report of an unresponsive patient. No one was there, Officers learned a 23-year-old Irmo man had...
View ArticleMore Action on Milling Street
Clinton Public Safety was dispatched to Milling Street at 8:17 yesterday morning on a report of an assault. A man had reportedly returned home to find another man he didn’t know in his house. He said...
View ArticleBelk Expanding Warehouse
Department store retailer Belk, Inc. yesterday announced an expansion of its Union County e-commerce distribution and fulfillment center operations for the second time since establishing there in...
View ArticleNominations for Local Healthcare Board
The Board of Trustees of the Laurens County Health Care System this week approved nominations for upcoming vacancies on that board. The Trustees approved its membership committee’s recommendation to...
View ArticleWinds Rip Roof
“Raising the roof” took on new meaning yesterday when storms passed over parts of Greenwood and Laurens Counties. Fox Carolina reports that it appears straight-line winds took part of the roof off a...
View Article18 Counts of Bank Card Fraud
The Sheriff’s Office yesterday arrested a Clinton woman on charges she illegally used Financial Transaction Cards multiple times at a store on US 76 just outside Clinton over the past three months....
View ArticleTheft & Forged Check
A man arrested by the Sheriff’s Office Tuesday was charged yesterday. Warrants accuse 29-year-old Adam Joshua Stone of 6431 Green Pond Road, Gray Court with Forgery $10,000 or less and Petit Larceny...
View ArticleTwo Arrests from Suspicious Vehicle
Clinton Public Safety Sgt. Cathy Anderson was on routine patrol at 2:48 yesterday morning in the Lydia Mill area when she reported observing a vehicle parked in the roadway with the lights on. She then...
View ArticleWitness Tampering & Lying Alleged In Local Court
A Barnwell woman was formerly accused yesterday of attempting to influence a juror and of giving false information while under oath during Laurens County General Sessions Court last month. The...
View ArticleWrecked Vehicle Struck, Driver Killed
A recent High School graduate was killed last night in a two-vehicle wreck on Interstate 385 near Gray Court. Laurens County Coroner Nick Nichols said that 18-year-old Nicholas Chase Stewart of 165...
View ArticleAbout $3,000 in Items Stolen
Clinton Public Safety Officer Stephen Lawton was dispatched to the 700 block of North Broad at 10:32 yesterday morning to investigate a burglary that resulted in the theft of items valued at almost...
View ArticleStolen Pistols at 2 Waterloo Locations
The Sheriff’s Office received two reports of stolen pistols from the Lake Greenwood area near Waterloo yesterday. Deputy Steve Paterson was dispatched to Ridgewood Drive just before noon where he met a...
View Article$2,000 Cell Phone Bill, But No Cell Phone
A report of identity theft dispatched Deputy Sibley to Bar-B-Villa Road outside Clinton at 6:24 last evening. A woman said she had been contacted by a collection agency regarding an overdue account...
View ArticleI-26 Closed, Bank Robbery Suspect Captured
Westbound Interstate 26 was closed at Newberry briefly late yesterday morning, as law enforcement captured a suspect wanted in a Columbia-area bank robbery. The bank robbery suspect fleeing from...
View ArticleATM Fraud
Laurens City Police have been advised of a case of Teller Machine Fraud. A Laurens woman came to the Police Department at 4:00 yesterday afternoon reporting that someone has made several fraudulent...
View ArticleMan, Hit in Head, Collapses on Bond Street
An anonymous tip dispatched Clinton Public Safety Officer Doug Richardson to Bond Street at 2:09 this morning, where he found a man bleeding from the head. Other men were on the scene but none...
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