Allendale County News

The family of Carolyn Jean Smith, continues to search for the 67-year old woman, who has been missing for a week now.

Chester County broke out of the Top 3 in unemployment in November, figures released by the state Employment Security Commission on Friday show.

Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2009 1:52 p.m. SLED officials have arrested three more suspects in the slaying of a man at an Allendale County motel earlier this month.

Three more men have been arrested in the December 5th murder at the Fairfax Motel in Allendale County.

Two women arrested in Solomon death A man familiar to many in Colleton was killed Saturday at a Fairfax motel and two women have been charged in connection with his death.Agents with the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division are investigating the case along with the Allendale County Coroner's Office and Fairfax Police.

Donations to charities are directly affected by the thousands of people laid off across the CSRA.

Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009 12:47 p.m. Two suspects have been arrested in the murder of a man in Allendale County over the weekend, and more arrests are expected to come.

When Boeing announced it would build a $750 million aircraft assembly plant in South Carolina, officials said the project would mean 2,000 construction jobs.

Nineteen-year-old TyDerria Mikell and twenty-three-year-old Amanda Davis are being held at the Allendale County Detention Center, charged in connection with a murder in Fairfax Saturday night, according to SLED.

Allendale County Sheriff Tom Carter tells News 12 a man is dead after being shot at the Fairfax Motel in Fairfax.

More than 100 people made their way out to Lake Marion High School on Thursday night to hear a proposal from the state Department of Transportation outlining a possible Interstate 95/U.S. 301 interchange modification and connector project in the area.

Allendale County schools are canceling afternoon classes and releasing students at noon because of severe weather coming into the area.

Two businesses announced today that they will invest a combined $4 million and create a total of 100 new jobs in locating new facilities in South Carolina, the S.C. Department of Commerce reported.

One hundred new jobs are coming to two South Carolina counties with high unemployment rates.

A company called Four Star Industries will open a conduit pipe manufacturing plant in the former Kodiak Plant in Allendale next year, South Carolina development officials announced this morning.

The jobless rates in Horry and Georgetown counties jumped in October as the hospitality industry shed jobs heading into the offseason, and officials don't anticipate the rates will get better any time soon, the S.C. Employment Security Commission reported Friday.

Orshedia Sullivan feels what the numbers mean - every frustrating day she tries to get back to work and stand apart from the nearly 263,000 South Carolinians who were jobless in October.

The unemployment rate in South Carolina rose nearly half a percentage point in October, to 12.1 percent.

Allendale county in southeast South Carolina. Hampton county in southeast South Carolina.

Look in Friday's edition of The Messenger for coverage of Tuesday's City Council Forum.