Belton News

Authorities said Thursday they believe a man charged with killing a Taylors couple had a previous business relationship with them and that he arranged a meeting in a secluded area that turned out to be a ruse to rob them of money and jewelry.

Belton White / The Item A witness said this Buick sedan hit two pedestrians on Washington Street at Hampton Avenue on Wednesday afternoon.

The body of an elderly South Carolina man, who was reported missing along with his wife last week, was found in a wooded area near Belton, S.C., authorities said.

A man has been arrested for killing an elderly South Carolina couple who disappeared after leaving a restaurant on Friday, authorities said today.

The brother of Chip Staton, the Taylors man who was found beaten to death in Anderson County, spoke out on Wednesday as investigators continued to look for the victim's wife.

The South Carolina man who was found beaten to death days after he and his wife disappeared may have been the victim of a robbery, his friend told CNN.

A South Carolina man faces charges in the death of a couple whose bodies were found several days after they were reported missing.

Anderson County, S.C, -- Those who loved Homer Staton grieved his death on Monday after hearing the word that his body was found in the woods just off an Anderson County road on Sunday.

Authorities from two Upstate counties searched frantically Monday for a Taylors woman who remained missing a day after her husband was found beaten to death in a secluded area of southern Anderson County.

Belton White / The Item Pam Wifong, a member of the Student Education Organization at the University of South Carolina Sumter, donates a dollar to the Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation at a stand at USC Sumter on Monday.

A South Carolina man has been arrested and charged with murder in the fatal stabbing of a Belton man last week.

A 29-year-old man is being held without bond after he was accused Saturday, in the stabbing death of a Belton man, deputies said.

Anderson County deputies are investigating the death of a man who died after a stabbing.

Joe Roberts of Greenville has been selected for induction into the South Carolina Tennis Hall of Fame.

Williamston, Belton and Honea Path are on 15 miles of highway in Anderson County.

Officials said the motorcyclist and his passenger who were fatally injured in a head-on crash in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park were a couple from South Carolina.

Officials said the motorcyclist and his passenger who were fatally injured in a head-on crash in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park were a couple from South Carolina.

Noxious fumes that sent a teacher to the hospital, forced the evacuation of a child development center and had people within a 30-mile radius in southern Greenville County holding their noses Friday morning was traced to a fire at a landfill in Anderson County, officials said.

Authorities today identified a South Carolina couple killed when a sport utility vehicle slammed head-on into their motorcycle.

The South Carolina Highway Patrol said that one person was killed in a crash near Belton on Thursday morning.