Newberry News

The attorney for a man charged with criminal sexual conduct says the man's rights were violated when he was re-arrested after being let out of jail by mistake.

A 35-year-old Aiken man was shot dead in North Augusta late Monday in what officials have said appears to be a drug deal gone bad.

A child who was exposed to a stray cat Sunday, Nov. 15 is under the care of a physician after the animal tested positive for rabies, the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control said Wednesday.

In Newberry County, deputies say that an accused child molester has been released from jail after his bond was wrongly issued.

Police have arrested a Newberry man for breaking into a local support center. Calvin Burton III, 26, of 1531 Caldwell St., Apartment A, was arrested and charged last week with burglary and two counts of possession of stolen property.

Aiken County Coroner Tim Carlton tells WJBF News Channel 6 a 68-year-old Warrenville, SC man was pronounced dead Friday morning at his home after being discovered by a caretaker.

The first money cut from the state at the beginning of the school year left the Newberry School District with $627,904 less to work with.

With hopes of a new penny tax being passed by county voters, Piedmont Technical College announced today it has secured an option to purchase the former Wal-Mart building on Wilson Road.

A former Newberry County Memorial Hospital general surgeon walked out of a surgery for half an hour in February 2006 because a surgical tool wasn't available, said the state Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation before the South Carolina State Board of Medical Examiners in May.

City leaders have put the thaw on a hiring freeze put into effect in March. City Manager Eric Budds, in his last City Council meeting in that position, told council members the freeze had been a preemptive move and one that now needed to be lifted to ensure that city services were not "reduced." Specifically, Budds said there are two open police ...

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.

Sunday, Nov. 8, 2009 1:46 p.m. A man who authorities say committed suicide after the Saturday robbery of an Aiken fast food restaurant has been identified as a 24-year-old Columbia resident.

Authorities say workers at a South Carolina plant found the body of a missing 52-year-old man.

According to Aiken County Coroner Tim Carlton, a body was found floating in the Savannah River near Beech Island, SC around noon on Wednesday.

A company that began three decades ago in a backyard in Silverstreet was voted as the best plumbing company in the county for the past three years.

No one was hurt when a Boundary Street home went up in flames Wednesday afternoon.

Former U.S. Army Officer and Newberry College President Mitchell M. "Mick" Zais announced Thursday that he is seeking the Republican nomination for Superintendent of Education.

An American tradition that is 90 years old marches on tomorrow as the Newberry Veterans Day Parade rolls down Main Street at 11 a.m. Begun as a commemoration of Armistice Day, the national holiday has its roots in the ending of the hostilities of World War I on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918.

Newberry A County deputies have arrested and charged a man with operating an illegal gambling facility out of his home.

The Sheriffa s Office is continuing to investigate a Wednesday shooting on Adelaide Street.