Sports Report for Wednesday, 12-10-2014
LDHS @ CHS… Last night the Raiders and the Red Devils got together for the last games in their annual meetings during the basketball season. G: Clinton 44 – Laurens 37… The Lady Red Devils got some...
View ArticleNot Having a Good Day
Laurens Police were dispatched to a Church Street location at 7:15 yesterday morning, along with EMS, on a welfare check. The woman who was being checked on then reportedly required additional police...
View ArticleBitten by Dog Walking to Get Help with Auto
The Sheriff’s Office was called to Fleming Street Extension outside Laurens at 1:16 yesterday afternoon on a dog bite situation. A man said he was walking along the roadway to get assistance with a car...
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D.A.R.E. Winners
The Gray Court-Owings School recently held their D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) graduation exercises. Each student in the program is required to write an essay about what they learned...
View ArticleCharges for Two in Stolen Car
Two suspects arrested last Monday night in Western Laurens County were charged yesterday with Receiving Stolen Goods. 35-year-old Amanda Elaine Jordon of 111 Rayben Lane, Anderson and 41-year-old...
View ArticleWindows Smashed, Thefts from Three Cars
There have been many illegal auto entries in Laurens over recent months where the thieves apparently were targeting vehicles that had been left unlocked. Yesterday there was a different modus operendi...
View Article3rd “IRS Scam” Report in 3 Days
For three straight days now we have a report of someone calling Laurens County residents saying they’re with the IRS. In the call to a Laurens area man reported yesterday, the caller is saying that the...
View ArticleMore Industrial Approvals
Council last night held a public hearing then gave third reading on Ordinance #779, which authorizes execution and delivery of agreements to provide inducements like Fee In Lieu of Tax plans for a...
View ArticleAccolades to Councilman Coleman
Many congratulations and goodbyes were issued to Laurens County Council Chairman Jim Coleman at his last Laurens County Council meeting last night. Councilman David Pitts nominated Coleman for the...
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2014-2015 Laurens Raider Wrestling Results
Most recent matches will be at top and older below them 12-9-2014 … The wrestling team at LDHS was in action Tuesday night… They traveled to Dorman for three-way match with Dorman and...
View ArticleSports Report for Thursday, 2-11-2014
Local Sports Results LDHS Wrestling… The Wrestling team at LDHS was in action Tuesday night so lets’ catch up with them…. They traveled to Dorman for three-way match with Dorman and Spartanburg…. The...
View ArticleNo Trailer, No Refund Likely – He’s in Jail
Sheriff’s Lt. Robbie Haupfear met with a Fountain Inn resident yesterday afternoon about a Breach of Trust. The man had paid a man $1,280 as a deposit to make a horse trailer for the victim, and the...
View ArticleAdult Children Problems, Part 3
Laurens Police were dispatched to Gordon Street at 4:31 yesterday afternoon after one of two adult sisters called about a dispute between them. Officers talked with both women and their mother, and...
View ArticleAdult Children Problems, Part 2
Clinton Public Safety was dispatched to West Bluford Street at 8:00 last night on an assault report. A woman in her early 40’s reported that her 21-year-old son had become upset and started cursing and...
View ArticleAdult Children Problems, Part 1
Laurens Police were dispatched to Jersey Street at 11:29 last night on a domestic disturbance. Officer Logan Kanipe arrived to find a man on the porch who indicated his adult son had been showing out....
View ArticleMan Charged in Theft of $Thousands
A man from Aiken was charged yesterday with the theft of merchandise valued over $2,000 in Laurens last month. And he’s also facing charges regarding an attempted theft of even more value in Union on...
View ArticleCouple Accused of Exposing Children to Meth
The Sheriff’s Office yesterday served warrants on a man and a woman who allege that they exposed their three children to methamphetamine over a period of almost two years. This time frame began on the...
View ArticleNatural Gas Sales Up
The installation of thousands of feet of new natural gas lines was one of the accomplishments for 2014 noted at the December meeting of the Laurens Commission of Public Works this week. General Manager...
View ArticleOncology Care Now Offered Here
An Oncologist’s office has now opened at the GHS Laurens County Memorial Hospital. Dr. Christopher R. “Chris” Thomas is now in Laurens County two days a week as part of the Greenville Health System. He...
View ArticleCouncil Gives 2nd Vote on New Fire Ordinance
The new Laurens County Fire Ordinance #780 was unanimously approved on second reading at this week’s County Council meeting, with some questioning from Councilman Joe Wood. The ordinance would create a...
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