Chesterfield News

Chesterfield County police are investigating a suspicious death this morning. CBS 6 News is learning that a body has been found near a car inside the Ivy Walk Apartment Complex at 4800 Burnt Oak Drive.

A disabled Chesterfield County girl whose family claims she was abused by a teacher and an assistant deserves her day in court, two federal appeals court judges ruled this week.

CHESTERFIELD a ' An office furniture company is relocating operations from several states to South Carolina, adding 20 jobs to rural Chesterfield County over five years.

An office furniture company plans to relocate its operations in Chesterfield, bringing up to 20 new jobs to the area in the next five years.

A nearly six hundred fifty acre development in Chesterfield is moving full steam ahead, despite the downturn in the economy.

Economic Security Commission Director Doris Ann Breeden of the One-Stop Career Center in Bennettsville presented two awards to Catherine Faulkenberry Thompson of the One-Stop Career Center in Cheraw at a retirement banquet held at Johnson's Old Fashion Buffet on June 23.

As the situation involving Governor Sanford these past weeks continues to unfold, I am saddened to see confidence and trust in the governor decline.

Beginning today, Chesterfield County is offering free residential swimming pool inspections throughout July.

World-language enrollment at Chesterfield County middle schools is expected to drop about 25 percent in the fall, in part because of fewer courses being offered.

Mr. Vinson Gulledge, age 70, died Saturday, June 20, 2009. Funeral services will be 2:00 p.m. Tuesday, June 23, 2009, at Miller-Rivers-Caulder Funeral Home Chapel, Chesterfield, SC, with burial to follow in the Cross Roads Baptist Church Cemetery, Ruby, SC.

Some Chesterfield neighbors, uprooted from their homes when their mobile home park was sold, want answers.

Last week a toddler drowned in the pool at his Chesterfield County home, afterwards inspectors discovered the gate there was not properly installed and it had a latch that was not up to standards.

Tuesday, June 23, 2009 at 5:30 p.m. Funeral arrangements are set for a Chesterfield County deputy killed in a motorcycle accident.

Mrs. Dessie Hunt Griggs, age 96, died Friday, June 19, 2009. Funeral services will be 3:00 p.m. Sunday, June 21, 2009, at Miller-Rivers-Caulder Funeral Home Chapel and burial will follow in the Chesterfield Cemetery.

Sunday, June 21, 2009 at 7:25 p.m. An off-duty deputy with the Chesterfield County Sheriff's Department died Saturday night in a motorcycle crash in Chesterfield county.

On the heels of a touchy-at-times budget process, elected officials for Chesterfield County and its school system are still having trouble seeing eye to eye.

On Thursday night, police in Chesterfield County were back out at a convenience store that had recently been the scene of a robbery.

Chesterfield County police today were investigating an apparent accidental drowning of a 2-year-old boy.

Hundreds of young adults in Chesterfield and Marlboro Counties are expected to complete a government summer employment program designed to increase the employment rate and improve moral in the midst of a harsh economic climate.

A homeless man has been charged with setting fire to six SUVs and trucks at a car dealership and neighboring business on Midlothian Turnpike in Chesterfield County.