Laurens South Carolina – Main Street Laurens and the City of Laurens are wrapping up their Fridays of Christmas special events from 5 to 8 p.m. tonight, Dec. 20, with a Caroling and Cookie Giveaway, where customers can enjoy a variety of Christmas cookies from participating Main Street retailers. It’s also, however, the final event…
A Simpsonville woman accused of falsifying her identity in order to get a job with Laurens County School District 55 was arrested Thursday by the Laurens County Sheriff’s Office. According to the LCSO, Bryia Lattimore Scott portrayed herself as “Viola Church” in order to get hired at Waterloo Elementary School. Scott has been charged with…
An undocumented immigrant received the maximum prison sentence Wednedsay in 8th Circuit Court in Laurens for his role in a crash that killed a 3-year-old girl. Gabriel Arteaga-Arteaga, 26, was found guilty Wednesday afternoon by a Laurens County jury of reckless homicide and driving without a license. Circuit Judge Frank R. Addy Jr. then sentenced…
UPDATE: Coroner’s office identifies victim Investigators from the Laurens County Sheriff’s Office are searching for a man they believe was involved in a Friday night shooting that left one person dead. The LCSO said the shooting incident occurred around 11 a.m. Friday on Cow Trail in Gray Court, and have since identified Terrence Jerrell Williams…
UPDATE: Bond denied for suspects at Saturday morning hearing Malachi Jewelz Pressley, 19, has been charged with the murder of MyAngel Walker, an 18-year-old Laurens woman who was reported missing on Thursday. At a joint press conference in Clinton Friday afternoon, Dec. 13, Clinton Police Chief Michael Addison, with Laurens Police Chief Heath Copeland, said…
GREENWOOD, S.C. —The mistletoe was missing but love was in the air during the women’s basketball game Saturday (Dec. 7) at Lander University. Karlie Dean, a senior business major at Lander and member of the Spirit Team’s Sassy Cat dancers, was performing one of her high-energy routines alongside her team during the game’s first timeout…
A crash on I-26 in Laurens County Wednesday left a Piedmont man dead and three other people injured. According to Deputy Coroner Ashley Rushton, Anthony White of Piedmont was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident, which occurred on I-26 east at mile marker 60 near Joanna and involved two tractor-trailers and three other…
A write-in candidate won Tuesday’s special election for an at-large seat on the Gray Court Town Council. Dylan Cook, a local real-estate agent, received 34 write-in votes to defeat registered candidates Brian K. Shumpert and Billy J. Pearson. Shumpert garnered 14 votes, while Pearson did not receive any votes. The special election was necessitated by…
Laurens, South Carolina – The search for the second of two escaped horses ended sadly Wednesday afternoon when the horse passed away soon after it was captured in downtown Laurens. “We had been looking for the two horses that escaped Sunday, and the first horse was caught Monday in a pasture behind a fence, and…
The Laurens Police Department identified Wednesday morning the man who shot his ex-wife Tuesday afternoon in a downtown Laurens business and then turned the gun on himself. Justin Sherman Allen, 40, who lived on Neely Ferry Road in Laurens County according to an arrest report from the Laurens County Sheriff’s Office, was pronounced dead at…