Night-Time Burglary, Sexual Assault Alleged
The Laurens County Sheriff’s Office yesterday served charges from an alleged burglary that included sexual assault and kidnapping in Upper Laurens County on Monday. 41-year-old Robert Anthony Rambo of...
View ArticleClinton City Council Approves “SUVs” for Police Pursuit
The next pursuit vehicles for Clinton will not be cars, but SUVs. City Manager Frank Stovall last night asked City Council to approve the purchase of two new police pursuit vehicles. Bids were...
View ArticleClinton 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...
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Here’s JimBo!
No, he is not possessed. His eyes and the camera flash just didn’t get along. This is Jimbo. He’s a pit bull. I know………..supposed to be vicious. This guy is a big ol’ baby. He craves human attention....
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2014 Little River Football Schedule, Results & Other Information
Standings School Wins Loses Bell St. Red 0 0 Bell St. White 0 0 Belton 0 0 Gray Court -Owens 0 0 Hickory Tavern 0 0 Honea Path 0 0 Laurens 0 0 Sanders 0 0 All Games Start at 5:00 pm unless noted Date...
View ArticleTripped and “Busted” Her Head
Clinton Public Safety Officer Stephen Lawton responded to East Bluford Street at 8:38 last night following a 911 hang-up call. Dispatched advised that when they called back a man answered the phone and...
View Article2nd Degree Assault
The Sheriff’s Office yesterday arrested 23-year-old Rashon Javarous Irby of 5 Gabriel Drive, Laurens on a charge of Assault and Battery 2nd Degree. A $15,000 bond was set on the charge. Irby remained...
View ArticleQuick Punch from a Wheel Chair
A Laurens area woman was being held overnight for charges that will include assaulting an officer while resisting arrest. Sheriff’s Lt. Marty Crain responded to Rabon Road at 9:02 last night on a...
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 ArticleAttempted Waterloo Break-In
Deputy Steve Paterson responded to the 6,0000 address range of Riverfork Road, Waterloo at 8:51 yesterday morning when a caretaker was checking on his family residence and observed someone had broken a...
View ArticleYou Can’t Sell That!
A Simpsonville loan company filed a report with the Laurens County Sheriff’s Office yesterday morning, stating that a customer had sold a vehicle they had under lien. Lt. Haupfear was told that the...
View ArticleNow She Wants the Money Back
Clinton Public Safety received a report from a young woman early last evening that she has been receiving harassing text messages from a younger woman. She said her friend, the younger female, gave her...
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...
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