The inaugural “Bark Out Loud” fundraising event is set for Saturday, May 5 at the Chick-Fil-A in Laurens. The event, which is organized by the Laurens Police Department K9 Unit and Tractor Supply, is to get started at 8 a.m. and run until 2 p.m. – or longer. Money raised will be donated to the…
A Clinton teenager was arrested Wednesday by deputies from the Laurens County Sheriff’s Office and charged with making threats toward a school. Damon Keith Kempster, 17, of Torrington Road in Clinton, was charged with breach of peace of a high-and-aggravated nature, according to a release from the LCSO. The deputies initially responded to an altercation…
Libby Burroughs, daughter of the slain Jim Bolt, attempted to describe her father to everyone in the courtroom Thursday, especially to the man who had just been convicted of killing him in 2003. Arthur “A.J.” Bowers hung his head and stared downward from the moment the guilty verdict was read by 8th Circuit Judge Donald…
A missing persons case more than two decades old found its way to Laurens County this past week as officials searched a property in Waterloo for the remains of a missing North Carolina woman. A ground-penetrating radar system was used to look underneath a cement pad that was once the floor of a backyard utility…
The Laurens Police Department has arrested two people suspected of injuring two 13-month-old toddlers in a case of child abuse. Randy Burnside Jr. was arrested Tuesday morning after the Laurens Police Department asked for the public’s assistance in locating him. Burnside was charged with two counts of unlawful conduct toward a child and two counts…
Laurens County, SC – South Carolina Rep. Mike Pitts’ bills regarding financial oversight of the school budget and consolidation of the two primary school districts in Laurens County sailed through the South Carolina House in Columbia Thursday morning, surprising at least some of the local lawmakers and blindsiding members of local school boards and district…
By John Clayton, Editor Laurens County, SC – Authorities are searching today (Friday, Aug. 27) for a body in a missing-person cold case near the intersection of Lois Lane and Serene Drive in Waterloo. The Gaston County, N.C. case dates back to the mid-1990s and involves a missing woman. According to Laurens County Sheriff’s Office Capt.…
Arthur “A.J.” Bowers was found guilty Thursday afternoon in the 2003 murder of Jim Bolt, who was working at the Laurens VFW when he was set upon by Bowers and other conspirators and beaten to death. Bolt was 76. While his alleged co-conspirators have not been conclusively identified or brought to trial, Bowers, 32, was…
The S.C. Supreme Court upheld Wednesday the murder conviction of Michael Beaty, Jr., who was convicted in 2015 of murdering his girlfriend in Clinton and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Beaty strangled girlfriend Emily-Anna Asbill, 19, to death in 2013. The two were in what has been described as an “on-again,…
The defense in the murder trial against Arthur “A.J.” Bowers rested Wednesday afternoon, leaving only closing arguments before the case goes to the jury for its verdict. Bowers, 32, is charged with murder in the 2003 murder of James Bolt, 76, at the Laurens VFW. Bolt was found bludgeoned to death on Sept. 26,…