Chesterfield News

A fight broke out shortly after 11 p.m. Saturday inside the Manchester Family YMCA in Chesterfield County. via WRIC-TV Richmond

“There's a familiarity with the military”

State's poorer counties prove fertile military recruiting area

DILLON -- Joining the Army seemed like the right thing to do for Carson Turner's 17-year-old son.

'The Army would be a better option for him than sticking around town and trying to find something,' Turner said.

Turner's son, Matt, is like many young people in Dillon County, where one in 10 workers is jobless.

In part due to the lack of local job prospects, the county's young people sign up to join the Army at a rate three times higher than the state average, an analysis of recruiting statistics shows. Read more

“I'm here to say, you're doing God's work”

The Homeless Coalition for the Pee Dee hopes to increase its services and entice more groups to join through a $425,827 grant it has received from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. via Morning News

“We find many good systems that have a lot of pieces together, but are missing some pieces”

Although its schools have a good reputation, Chesterfield County hired Phi Delta Kappa to conduct an audit on them. via The Progress-Index

“This talk of a liaison keeps coming up”

More than a month after a Darlington County murder suspect was mistakenly released from a state prison, the question of whether having a jail liaison at Darlington County Detention Center could have prevented ... via WBTW

“God has his angel. He's got one more”

A Battery Creek High School student was killed Thursday morning when he was struck by a cement truck while crossing S.C. 170 near the Broad River bridge, police said. via Island Packet

CBS 6 Senior Reporter Wayne Covil is now reporting the judge has found William Wallace guilty of all charges in connection to a 1990 murder inside a Chesterfield Food Lion. via WTVR Richmond

CHESTERFIELD TOWNSHIP: The Board of Trustees is to readdress tonight a previous decision to disband the Police and Fire Administration Board. via Detroit Free Press

A truck driver charged with killing two supermarket employees 17 years ago is scheduled to stand trial Monday in Chesterfield County. via WTVR Richmond

“As more people purchase and ride motorcycles for the first time, especially pre-boomers and boomers, their lack of experience and failure by some to wear helmets represents a deadly combination”

For the second consecutive year, Charleston was the most dangerous county in South Carolina based on the number of crashes, injuries and property-damage collisions per mile traveled in 2006, according to AAA ... via WIS-TV Columbia

“Chesterfield was somewhat competitive up to year 10, then began to fall here [at year 12]”

Chesterfield County Public Schools has released a proposed $604.6 million budget, an increase of 6.2 percent or $35.5 million over the existing spending plan. via The Progress-Index

“We got some preliminary numbers, but the numbers were not accurate”

Two of the North Eastern Strategic Alliance's high-profile projects are at a standstill, but data for the region shows economic progress, according to reports presented during NESA's Board meeting Friday in ... via WBTW

An overnight, three-alarm town home fire in Chesterfield County is under investigation Monday morning. via WRIC-TV Richmond

“They don't need an attorney, they don't need another professional to go into the process with them.”

For many homeowners in Chesterfield real estate assessments are on the way up. Some residents have decided to fight back. via NBC12

“My family and I are committed to Florence, and I will vote to do what's right”

Florence County/Municipal Planning Commission chairman Glynn Willis said he's running for a Florence City Council seat so that he can give back to a community that's been good to him. via WBTW

Chesterfield County supervisors voted unanimously to approve a plan to bulldoze a mobile home park last night. via NBC12

“We've got to abolish the IRS [Internal Revenue Service], business tax, the inheritance tax ('the most unfair tax there could be').”

It hadn't been much of a meetup, to use American parlance. Rural, white South Carolina is quite Republican, but Chesterfield County isn't. Poor and a bit out of the way, hard by the North Carolina border in the ... via The Globe and Mail

'There, you've seen the rednecks," laughed Larry Courtney as he and two friends ambled out of the Republican Party of Chesterfield County meeting.It hadn't been much of a meetup, to use American parlance. via The Globe and Mail

Chesterfield County emergency crews are on scene of an accident involving an oil tanker truck on West Hundred Road. via WRIC-TV Richmond

Chesterfield County officials are looking for a missing woman in need of medication. via WRIC-TV Richmond