Jacksonboro News

A group of clergy is organizing a peace rally Thursday in hope of calming tensions in Colleton County and reducing violence that has left this rural area with seven homicides in six months.

More than 3 dozen people have died on Highway 17 from Gardens Corner to Jacksonboro since 1997.

Authorities in Colleton County, South Carolina are investigating the death of a man they say apparently robbed a nightclub early Sunday morning and was then shot and killed outside the club.

Lamont Truesdale, 31, of Jacksonboro, was shot with a handgun at a place known as a oeLeona s,a in the Round-O area.

It's close to ten o'clock Thursday night at the Kangaroo Express on the Ace Basin Parkway in Jacksonboro.

Most of the emus at Tom and Diane Pearson's farm had numbers. But one of the tall, gawky birds was special.