Newly elected Gray Court Mayor Stellartean Jones presided over a meeting of the town council for the first time since her election in March. Jones was sworn into office Monday night along with newcomer town council Shaterica Neal and veteran councilman Adolphus Brewster, who will begin his 40th year on council. “I thought everything went…
Former Gray Court Mayor John Carter typically delivered one-liners as he said good-bye to the office he held for 32 years. “If anybody could give me a ride to the unemployment office tomorrow morning, I’d appreciate it,” Carter joked following the regular meeting of the Gray Court Town Council Monday night. It was the first…
From Prisma Health release: Clinton, SC – In a release sent to media Thursday evening, Prisma Health leaders credited law enforcement and team members at Prisma Health Laurens County Hospital for helping quickly resolve an active-shooter incident that occurred just before 2 a.m., Thursday, April 11, at the hospital. Greenville Health Authority (GHA) Police were…
This post was updated 9:42 Friday morning, April 12 with a current booking photo. Laurens County, S.C. – A Clinton man, Kevin Boyce Patterson, 27, has been booked at the Johnson Detention Center and charged by South Carolina Law Enforcement Division officers with attempted murder, kidnapping and pointing and presenting a firearm after an altercation…
Well after sunrise on Thursday morning, visitors to the Prisma Health Laurens County Memorial Hospital’s Emergency Department were being scanned by an officer with a hand-held metal detector wand after an early morning altercation just before 2 a.m. resulted in injuries to an armed visitor and a Greenville Health Authority officer. “According to the police…
Laurens, SC – From LCSO reports – At 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 9, the Laurens County Sheriff’s Office was dispatched to a residence on S. Harper Street in Laurens to respond to a call for a person who had been shot. When Deputies arrived, they located the victim, Tommy Williams, with an apparent gunshot wound to his…
A Ware Shoals High School senior was killed as she was returning home from prom Saturday night. Trinity, Brandasia Harrison, 18, died after being involved in a car crash with a suspected drunk driver. According to reports, the 2013 Dodge Avenger, in which Harrison was a front-seat passenger, was struck head on by a 1999…
No one was looking for Melissa Fairlee Rhymer. Rhymer, whose last known address was on Revan Drive in Mountville, was found buried in a shallow grave behind a house in Spartanburg Friday by Spartanburg County Sheriff’s deputies using cadaver dogs. The bodies of Rhymer, 40, and Christin Renee Bunner, 27, of Spartanburg were both found…
An Irmo man is charged with murder after allegedly shooting an acquaintance and dumping the dead man’s body roadside on I-26 at the Laurens-Newberry county line. Ervin Chauncey Meggett, 22, is in the Johnson Detention Center on murder, armed robbery and possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime. Meggett is accused…
A new agreement between ZF Transmissions and BMW will localize the supply chain between the two companies in the Upstate. In separate statements Friday, ZF and BMW announced that ZF’s Gray Court production facility will manufacture its advanced 8-speed automatic transmission for BMW’s plant located just over 27 miles away in Greer. “This business win…