Greenwood News

Friday's new unemployment numbers were a grim reminder that people in this state have been hit hard by the Great Recession.

A man weighing around 900 pounds died after he had to be cut out his chair in home , reports CBS affiliate WSPA-TV from Greenwood, S.C. Authorities say he was stuck to a chair for nine months.

Daniel Webb's weight was estimated at 800 lbs, although his wife says it was closer to 500.

COLUMBIA - When an ambulance brought Tillmon Webb home from the hospital after he hurt his knee in March, paramedics warned the then 550-pound man that he probably wouldn't be able to get up from his recliner if they put him there, his wife said.

We don't know all that much about Greenwood, S.C., and from the looks of it we'd prefer to keep it that way As far as we can tell, it's just another town in the middle of B.F.E., S.C. where the local politicians ride roughshod over the best interests of the taxpayers - and where the local "country boys" put on homoerotically-themed bull riding ...

Lowea s Cos. , the second-largest U.S. home-improvement retailer, posted third-quarter profit that met analystsa estimates and trimmed the high end of its full-year forecast as consumers refrained from spending on large projects.

The eagerly awaited mega-component to Duke Energy's newest electric generator is on the move again.

Investment banks are climbing back from the depths of the financial crisis only to face regulatory challenges and a public hostile to fat profits and paychecks.

A 5-year-old boy has been killed after falling off an all-terrain vehicle in western South Carolina.

The Columbia Parkinsona s Support Group meeting on November 15th will have as our guest speaker, Judy Greenwood of the South Carolina Lieutenant Governor's Office on Aging.

Borders will close 200 of its Waldenbooks stores nationwide, including four in South Carolina, as part of an initiative to bolster the embattled bookseller.

Published: Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 3:15 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 9:13 p.m. Senior Centers of Spartanburg County has moved its administrative office from the Evans Building as plans are under way to make the building Spartanburg Community College's new downtown campus.

Q: Thomas Edison and Polaroid founder Edwin Land are two of the three most prolific inventors, holding more than 1,500 patents between them.

Fujifilm plans to relocate a recycling operation in Greenwood County. The announcement was made on Wednesday.

Amato is emergency services director for the Upper Palmetto chapter of the American Red Cross, which covers York, Chester and Lancaster counties.

Lander University has opened a new equestrian center that will serve as both a center for therapeutic riding and a home for Lander's equestrian team.

Cooperative Diagnostics LLC, Greenwood, SC, recently announced the availability of a new diagnostic assay for Xenotropic Murine Leukemia-Related Virus to assist physicians in the diagnosis of chronic fatigue syndrome and other disorders potentially caused by the virus.

There's a beast on its way, lumbering across the South Carolina landscape. Its orange metal hulk is surrounded by a police escort and stops, sometimes for days or weeks at a time, only to move on again at its 5 to 20 mph snail's pace once power lines and other things in its way are moved.

The Reedy River is a source of great pride for Greenville citizens. It is a part of the promising formula for our Upstate's continued success.

Authorities say Fujifilm plans to expand its South Carolina operations, creating up to 20 job.