Wellford News

A Wellford woman received a 15-year prison sentence Monday after she admitted to causing a fatal traffic accident while driving drunk.

Sgt. Ticteaco Holmes and Staff Sgt. Isaac Holmes kept their relationship a secret from the soldiers in their National Guard units.

Deputy Nick Hullinger has seen more graffiti cropping up across the county in the past two years and is dedicated to monitoring gang activity in hopes of curbing the problem.

C.J. Husband was in the sixth grade when two jetliners crashed into the World Trade Center and shattered America's sense of invulnerability.

SPARTANBURG - It was a time of great joy, and a time of apprehension. A time of coming home, but only to ship out again.

Herald readers helped pay for buses to bring area soldiers home for the holidays.

Thumbs Up to everyone in this area who made it possible for a couple of hundred South Carolina Army National guard soldiers to return home for Christmas leave before they head to Afghanistan in January.

Published: Friday, December 18, 2009 at 3:15 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, December 17, 2009 at 9:43 p.m. Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office Joshua Michael McFadden, 17, of 155 Roper Road, Wellford, on Thursday was arrested and charged with second-degree criminal sexual conduct.

About 210 South Carolina Army National Guard soldiers from Wellford and Fort Mill units have the chance to come home for 10 days leave at Christmas - if their families and supporters can raise $35,000 to rent at least four buses.

A Wellford man died Tuesday after leading a Spartanburg County sheriff's deputy on a car chase through Lyman that reached 80 mph and ended when the pursued car hit a tree, authorities said.

Published: Tuesday, December 8, 2009 at 9:35 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, December 8, 2009 at 9:35 a.m. A Wellford man died in a single-car accident at about 2 a.m. today.

There's Pierson Young at home Monday with 4-month-old daughter, Addison, and a National Guard husband in Wisconsin training for war in Afghanistan.

Published: Sunday, November 29, 2009 at 3:15 a.m. Last Modified: Sunday, November 29, 2009 at 12:03 a.m. South Carolina Highway Patrol Jimmie Ray Sentell, 66, of 231 Shadow Lane, Lyman, on Friday night was arrested and charged with felony driving under the influence, resulting in great bodily injury.

Published: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 3:15 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 12:30 a.m. Arms hugged, lips smooched and eyes cried Tuesday afternoon as loved ones bid farewell to Army National Guardsmen in a cold, steady rain.

Published: Saturday, November 7, 2009 at 3:15 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, November 6, 2009 at 10:13 p.m. Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office Deputies are looking for a man accused of cutting the neck of his "on again off again" girlfriend of six years during a disturbance late Thursday.

Deputies with the Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office are searching for a man they said cut his girlfriend in the neck, slashed her tires and ran off.

Los Angeles police say they've arrested five people suspected in a string of burglaries in the Hollywood Hills in which celebrities were targeted.

By Jay King HOMETOWN NEWS The Spartanburg County Council received an update on the progress of various capital improvement projects begun in the first quarter of the fiscal year that began July 1 during the council's monthly meeting Monday afternoon.

The South Carolina Highway Patrol said it is investigating an overnight crash in Spartanburg County that left one person dead and five others injured.

Spartanburg County deputies were kept busy on Tuesday night by two stabbings that happened about an hour apart.