Two Couples Charged with Unlawful Conduct Toward Children
The Laurens County Sheriff’s Office has arrested two men and two women on charges of Unlawful Conduct toward a Child. In both cases, the abuse allegedly occurred on Sunday, or on days through...
View ArticleWLBG Sports Report Friday 12-27-13
FIRST, LET’S CHECK THE FINALS FROM YESTERDAY’S SUPER EXCITING BOWL GAMES Pittsburgh 30, Bowling Green 27 LITTLE CAESARS BOWL Utah State 21, No. 23 Northern Illinois 14 SAN DIEGO COUNTY CREDIT UNION...
View ArticleAfter Four Years, 60-day Sentences Begin
Laurens Police placed a Greenville man in the Laurens County Detention Center yesterday to serve sentences totaling sixty days. These sentences were from Laurens Municipal Court over four years...
View ArticleOther Break-ins & Thefts
Items valued at over $3,000 were reported from property on Todd Quarter Road, Waterloo yesterday. Deputy Steve Paterson was dispatched at 1:12 in the afternoon and made contact with a Rosman, North...
View ArticleHusband Returns Home to Find Wife with Her Paramour
Clinton Public Safety responded to the Northwest side of town at 4:27 yesterday afternoon on a report that a woman had been caught by her husband in the home with her paramour, and that the male...
View ArticleOffshore Drilling off Carolina Coast Proposed Again
More U.S. territory, on land and offshore, would be open to energy development with less environmental regulation under a broad proposal from Representative Jeff Duncan. The Laurens County...
View ArticleOver $70,000 in Losses Noted in Two Home Break-ins
Items valued at over $40,000 were reportedly stolen from a Cross Hill home yesterday. Sheriff’s Deputy Steve Paterson was dispatched at 4:12 pm and spoke with a resident of Skipper’s Lodge Road...
View ArticleLaurens Villa Residents Receiving Help from Red Cross
The American Red Cross of the Western Carolinas reported it was back yesterday with case workers assisting persons displaced by the fire at Laurens Villas late Tuesday night. The fire displaced...
View ArticleArrest Cites Undercover Drug Deal
The Laurens County Sheriff’s Office yesterday made a drug distribution arrest citing an undercover operation this fall. 24-year-old Twyman Kyle Case of 711 Whitmire Highway, Joanna was charged with...
View ArticleChristmas Day Traffic Fatality
A Whitmire woman died Christmas night following a one-vehicle wreck in Laurens County earlier in the evening. The Highway Patrol states she was driving a 1966 Chevrolet pickup westbound on SC Highway...
View ArticleMount Olive Parade NOW: 4:00 pm Saturday, December 28th
The parade formerly known as the “Red Neck Parade” has been rescheduled again. The initial date for this year’s Mount Olive Christmas Parade early in December was delayed until the Sunday before...
View ArticleFireworks about Fireworks
Over the New Year’s Holiday Clinton Public Safety continued to receive complaints about juveniles with fireworks. Another kind of fireworks erupted yesterday after Laurens City Police were dispatched...
View ArticleMuseum to Host Owner Artifact Collection
The Laurens County Museum has two fund-raising efforts now underway designed to accomplish goals that could potentially make the museum a magnate to draw visitors to the county. The Museum’s Board of...
View ArticleTop Ten Inadvisable New Year’s Resolutions
#10… We don’t suggest you resolve to smoke a joint of marijuana every week. This is not Colorado. #9 … No matter how you may be tempted, and how distressed your financial situation is, you should...
View ArticleSports Report Friday, January 3rd 2014
High School basketball action gets back underway next week. The Raider Boys and Girls face Easley next tuesday night at home. Clinton Varsity Boys and Girls face Newberry next Monday night at home. The...
View ArticleDomestic Violence Charged Served
Clinton Public Safety yesterday issued charges of Domestic Violence on a case from an arrest early Wednesday night. 59-year-old Ray Junior Mack of 109 Brianna Drive had initially been charged with...
View ArticleMultiple Air Conditioners Taken
Laurens City Police Officer Charles Simmons was conducting property checks on the east side of the building at 15 minutes after midnight this morning when he discovered that two more air conditioning...
View ArticleUsed Oil Stolen
Approximately 300 gallons of used oil was reported stolen yesterday. Clinton Public Safety was dispatched to a business on the north side of town at 3:50 yesterday afternoon, after the company that...
View ArticleHeld for Drug Charges
Drug charges are pending following a Clinton Public Safety Traffic Stop at 1:10 this morning. Officer Lawton made the traffic stop on Jefferson Street. After investigation, two baggies of marijuana...
View ArticleSuspect Reportedly Returns to the Scene
Laurens County Deputy Justin Yarbrough was at the Bowater Timber Yard on East Main, Clinton across from Old Colony Road at 12:14 yesterday afternoon gathering evidence regarding a theft that had...
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