Anderson News

Pickens, Anderson and Oconee county leaders have revived talks about a commonly owned 513-acre tract of land once slated for a regional landfill, and a spurned buyer remains interested.

ANDERSON - A Tampa man serving a life sentence for strangling an Anderson County mother and facing a death penalty trial in the death of a second mother pleaded not guilty in an arraignment Thursday.

Anderson School District 1's board of trustees has approved a $54.2 million budget with a tax increase, stimulus dollars and fewer cuts than previously expected.

Anderson, SC- June 30, 2009 - The competition is heating up to find out who will be the next winner of FOX's hit television show "So You Think You Can Dance," but some local residents have already chosen their favorite contestant.

Mary E. Anderson, 96, a resident of the Lebanon Valley Home, Annville and formerly of 1012 River Road, McVeytown, died at 10:05 p.m. Sunday, June 28, 2009, at the home.

Greenville County deputies said Monda9 a man was caught trying to steal a television and laptop from an Eastside apartmen4 and tried to flee in a silver Volkswagen, bu4 there was one problem.

CLEMSON - Unlocking the "untapped potential" of the Upstate is the first step in a plan to boost the economic impact of tourism in South Carolina from $17.2 billion to $40 billion annually by the year 2020.

James Orin Anderson , retired professor, author, and musician, died on June 23, 2009, in Athens, Georgia.

Seagrave Fire Apparatus will host an open house from 1 to 8 p.m. Friday at its new location at 251 N. Wilson St.

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A pair of Winthrop University Eagles flew around the course Saturday night to take the overall wins in the 13th annual Greenville Candlelight Charity 5K Run.

Parties to a three-year-old court order to clean up dangerous PCBs from the Twelve Mile River and Hartwell Lake need to stop dragging their feet and implement the plan to remove and cap potentially cancer-causing sediment in the waterways.

With federal authorities now investigating the recent assassination of Dr. George Tiller , an abortion provider in Kansas, new information is emerging about ties between the anti-abortion activist charged with the crime and extremist groups.

Three Hilton Head Island juniors came away with singles titles at the 53rd annual Wachovia Palmetto Championships, a prestigious junior state tournament that wrapped up Friday in Belton and Anderson.

More than 200 members of a South Carolina Army National Guard unit from Anderson are heading to Oregon this weekend to practice defending the nation against a potential aircraft or missile attack.

ANDERSON, S.C. June 9, 2009 -- The following local students have been named to the Dean's List for fall 2009 at Anderson University in Anderson, S.C. In order to be named to the Dean's List, a student must maintain a term grade point average of 3.5 or better.

ANDERSON a ' A federal judge wants to know what progress has been made in cleaning contamination in a South Carolina river.

In news across the Palmetto StateCity Hall in Anderson, South Carolina is abuzz about something eerie.

In one town in South Carolina is abuzz with something eerie. Employees at a credit union claim to have seen a ghost and it's caught on tape.

A federal district judge in Columbia has ordered that two lawsuits filed against Gov.