Batesburg News

Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe A. Norton Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe A. Norton Jr., of Appomattox, Va., celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary May 28, 2009, with their families in attendance.

Armand Jordan, 77, passed away Thursday, June 25, 2009. Graveside service will be held at 3:30 p.m. Sunday, June 28 in Philippi Baptist Church Cemetery in Johnston with Rev.

Children's Day and Cap and Gown Day for graduates, 11:15 a.m. Sunday. Wednesday Bible study, 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Van pick-up available.

Mike Burgess of Batesburg is seven years younger than his wife Sandra, and she always enjoyed picking on him about that, singing snippets of "Older Women Make Beautiful Lovers" to him.

The remaining four defendants in the kidnapping, torture and murder on Jeremy Leaphart were sentenced Tuesday.

Eight men who played a part in the Christmas Eve 2007 kidnapping, torture and murder of Jeremy Leaphart admitted to the crimes Monday, and the judge started handing out harsh sentences.

Lexington County deputies got $10,000 worth of liquid meth off the streets Wednesday.

Mr. Robert L. "Big" Henderson, 55, entered into rest Thursday, March 26th. He was born in Batesburg and was the son of the late Robert E. and Vivian Quattlebaum Henderson.

A celebration of life service for Paul Ray Taylor, 82, will be held 2 p.m. Saturday, March 28, 2009, in the Chapel of Thompson Funeral Home of West Columbia, officiated by Pastor Karen Gibson and Pastor James Glander.

An early morning accident leaves one man dead in northeast Aiken County, near Monetta.

Friday, March 6, 2009 3:48 p.m. A 52-year-old Batesburg, S.C., man died in a moped crash early today on U.S. Highway 1 in Aiken County.

The past is never dead, it is not even past. -- William Faulkner Sunday's column about old drive-in movie theaters shows that they might be gone, but people still remember them fondly.

Mrs. Lucile Hall Bull Whetstone, 90, went to be with the Lord Tuesday, February 17, 2009.

Services will be held in the fellowship hall until further notice due to church renovations.

Services will be held in the fellowship hall until further notice due to church renovations.

I met my husband Bruce in 1961. My best friend, Mary, at Ridge Spring High School had met a boy named Tommy from Aiken.

A man is wanted on charges he coerced two people into having sex while he was baby-sitting at a Sligh Avenue home, a Columbia Police Department news release said.

Friday, January 23, 2009 at 10:25 a.m. The Lexington County Coroner's Office and the South Carolina Highway Patrol are investigating a one vehicle accident that ocurred in the 7800 block of Two Block Road in ...

Abbie Mann Kneece, 87, passed away Tuesday, January 13, 2009. Funeral service will be held at 1:00 p.m. Saturday, January 17 at Bethel Baptist Church with burial in Batesburg Cemetery, with Rev.

Two dogs were reportedly stolen from an Old Indian Trail Road business in Batesburg Earlier this week.