Laurens News

Gottrocks the birthday fairy has had a overwhelmingly busy couple of weeks. The sweetheart wishes, candy, flowers and bill payments have left him ragged in the wings.

"The Capture of the Earl of Glencrae," by Stephanie Laurens: The final of the Cynster sister kidnapping trilogy is surprisingly delightful because Stephanie Laurens veers away from the predictable plot line.

In 1975, the Aiken Area Transportation Study proposed scores of road changes, improvements and additions to offset the traffic congestion, be it perceived or predicted.

Remembering the examples of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. remains as important to America's future today as in 1968.

The project is also being held in Aiken, Anderson, Columbia, Greenville and Orangeburg.

Shane Andrew Lindley, 12-month-old son of Andrew Blake Lindley and Brandi Leigh Rachels, of Greenwood, died Saturday, February 4, 2012.

From staff reports A Ware Shoals man was arrested after failing to appear in court in connection to federal weapons charges.

Amanda Dickert, 24, of Whitmire, was reportedly driving a KIA on S.C. Highway 14, just north of Laurens, Saturday when she collided with a 1979 Chrysler driven by 56-year-old Phyllis Lyons, of Laurens.

A Chinese company that makes plastic film often used to package food is building a new plant in Laurens County.

The wreck occurred just after 4 p.m. Saturday on S.C. Highway 14 at Old Laurens Road, a few miles north of the city of Laurens, according to S.C. Highway Patrol Lance Corporal Scot Dickert's were traveling north on S.C. Highway 14 when they collided with 1979 Chrysler driven by Phyllis Lyons, 56, of Laurens.

No job hiring fair is imminent for the plant Nephron Pharmaceuticals plans to open near Cayce, company office say.

A student at Greenville Technical College skipped class recently when she scratched a winning $100,000 ticket in the school parking lot.

POLITICO's prolific Ginger Gibson reports that Newt Gingrich, in Laurens, S.C., told the crowd a short while ago that he's headed for a strong night: But he added, " Of course you never know with polls, the polls that count are the people who go out in the rain and vote."

Ex-House Speaker Newt Gingrich, making his second comeback of the 2012 presidential campaign, will win the South Carolina Primary, NBC News projected moments after the polls closed.

Laurens County deputies said that on Dec. 13, 2011, a man walked up behind a woman, pointed a gun at her and demanded her purse.

Rick Santorum, of Pennsylvania, greets a small gathering of media and voters Wednesday at the Capitol Theatre in Laurens.

Gov. Mitt Romney is expected to talk about jobs and the economy at a rally at Wofford College in Spartanburg at 11:10 a.m. Santorum will appear at a town hall meeting at the Beacon Drive-In in Spartanburg at 10:45 a.m. Then he'll have another town hall meeting at the Capitol Theater in Laurens at 12:45 p.m. The senator's final town hall is set for ... (more)