Abbeville County News

A man who killed his girlfriend and her father in 2006 pleaded guilty and was sentenced on Thursday.

A man on South Carolina's death row for killing two police officers in a land dispute over a highway widening project said Wednesday his sentence should be overturned because prosecutors tried to play on jurors' emotions by showing scenes from one of the officer's funerals at trial.

Greenville and other portions of the Upstate could see heavy rain, and possible flooding, in the next 24 hours as the remnants of a tropical cyclone move in from the southwest and spread wet weather over the region, forecasters said.

The number of concealed weapons permits issued in the state has risen sharply this year, state records show, as people worry about crime and their right to bear firearms.

The search is on today for a Taylors woman whose husband was found beaten to death in a secluded area of Anderson County a day after the couple was last seen eating at a buffet restaurant three miles from their Pebble Creek home.

Authorities said they were investigating whether a body found Sunday in Anderson County was that of a Taylors man who had last been seen Friday.

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An Upstate church has been hit with an emergency cease-and-desist order and a $2,000 fine after state officials said the church has been illegally offering insurance to its members.

Six former candidates in Cheser County elections owe the State Ethics Commission a combined $4,600 in penalties for filing forms late and are listed on a "Debtor's List," prepared by the commission.

The Cayce Department of Public Safety is investigating two robberies of a pharmacy on Charleston highway where a man in a vehicle presented a note at the drive-through window stating "I have a gun, give me all of your Oxycontin." The first robbery was on August 23 at about 10:41 a.m., Cayce police said.

Laurens County officials investigating the deaths of a mother and her daughter who were found Tuesday in a car submerged in Lake Greenwood said this morning that the mother drowned, although the manner of her death is still being investigated.

ABBEVILLE, S.C. a ' Officials have released the names of two Tennessee men killed in the crash of a small plane in a South Carolina lake.

A reserve deputy from the Knox County Sheriff's Office and a Maryville man were killed Saturday when a single-engine Cessna crashed into a lake in South Carolina, authorities say.

South Carolina authorities say at least two people have died in a plane crash in Abbeville County.

Levels of ground-level ozone, a major component in smog, have been lower than usual across the Southeast this season, which is a good thing, because 2009 is a crucial year in determining whether areas meet federal Clean Air Act standards on which hang public health, future road-building and economic development that could bring jobs.

I am looking for information about William Asberry O'Bryant, who was born in 1867 in South Carolina and died 05/11/1912 in Abbeville, Abbeville County, South Carolina.

I am looking for information about William Asberry O'Bryant, who was born in 1867 in South Carolina and died 05/11/1912 in Abbeville, Abbeville County, South Carolina.

A giant amethyst discovered last year by a group of diggers at the Diamond Hill mine in upstate South Carolina now sits in the natural-history section of the South Carolina State Museum in Columbia.

Police in Honea Path have arrested five people in connection with a series of church burglaries, and they are continuing to look for three other suspects.

A gun accident during target practice killed an Abbeville County boy near a home on Old Hodges Road on Thursday.