Allendale News

After working three years for the town of Bluffton, Tim Bennett, who served most recently as deputy town manager, left a week ago to take the top post in Allendale County.

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Nearly 500 people in Allendale wait for room to open up in a conference center Wednesday for the Savannah River Site job fair.

More than 500 people braved 90 degree temperatures Wednesday afternoon. Beads of sweat forming.maybe because of the weather, maybe because it could mean a new job.

The Savannah River Site will be hosting a job fair on Tuesday. The job fair will be at the University of South Carolina's Salkehatchie West Campus Conference Center.

Monday, June 22, 2009 4:50 a.m. A single-vehicle crash Sunday night killed a 54-year-old Allendale, S.C., woman.

South Carolina, with a record unemployment rate of 12.1 percent in May, has blown past jobless levels seen during the recession of the early 1980s.

BARNWELL, S.C. Anthony Rivers was laid off from his maintenance job three weeks ago and is willing to do just about anything to rejoin the ranks of the employed in South Carolina - even if that means cleaning up nuclear waste .

Dangerous heat has returned to South Carolina. The National Weather Service has issued a heat advisory Thursday for South Carolina's four southernmost counties.

South Carolina's jobless rate has been among the nation's highest, but one of the state's largest employers is looking to fill thousands of new jobs.

South Carolina's jobless rate has been among the nation's highest, but one of the state's largest employers is looking to fill thousands of new jobs.

Remember that big Savannah River Site job fair in Columbia? Now there's one coming to a town near you.

Temp: 91.0 F Heat Index: 98 F Augusta, Bush Field, GA June 11, 2009 Two town hall meetings and job fairs have been scheduled in Barnwell and Allendale.

A judge has decided a South Carolina funeral home where a worker was accused of cutting a corpse's legs so he would fit in a casket can remain open as it appeals the revocation of its license.

AN undertaker has been shut down after a worker admitted sawing the legs off a 6ft 7in man so he would fit in a coffin.

WALTERBORO a ' If you've ever listened to somebody tell a good story, you know the art is in the telling.

An Allendale funeral home admits to cutting off a dead man's legs so he could fit in a casket too small for his size.

The owner of a troubled Allendale funeral home is speaking out after losing his business license.

A FUNERAL home employee cut the legs off a two-metre-tall man without the family's permission so the body would fit inside a casket.

Since early May, amateur archaeologists have joined professionals in an ongoing excavation of a site in western Allendale County, S.C., that apparently was called home by humans in the Ice Age .