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Weeks after federal officials announced a cockfighting bust in which a Chester County man was indicted, the state has released additional arrests from the same operations.

Bible study, 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays. Van pick up available, call 581-8329 and leave a message.

Published: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 3:15 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 12:31 a.m. With at least one lawsuit likely looming, City Council approved first reading of an ordinance that annexes more than 800 properties on the west side Tuesday night.

State Police said a South Carolina man arrested in Kanawha County for driving under the influence registered a preliminary blood-alcohol content of .338. Cpl.

A Blackstock man was one of 21 people charged in an indictment, one of three separate cockfighting cases announced Wednesday by U.S. Attorney W. Walter Wilkins.

One hundred forty-second church anniversary celebration, 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 25. All invited.

It took almost 96 years, but an injustice was corrected. The S.C. Department of Probation, Pardon and Parole's board unanimously pardoned two black men from Blackstock who were convicted of killing a white Confederate Army soldier, then electrocuted.

Two wealthy black brothers executed for killing a white Confederate army veteran in 1913 have been given a posthumous pardon in South Carolina , in the Deep South of the US .

Radio host's relatives pardoned SOUTH CAROLINA - The state pardoned syndicated radio host Tom Joyner's great-uncles Wednesday, nearly a century after they were sent to the electric chair for the 1913 murder of a Confederate Army veteran.

Nationally syndicated radio host Tom Joyner raised his hand in victory. "I hope now they rest in peace," Tom Joyner said of his two great-uncles who were wrongfully executed.

What about Nelson Brice and John Crosby? It is justice that two black men from Chester County were pardoned Wednesday for the 1913 murder of a white Civil War veteran that they very likely did not commit.

PAM MAY have finally snagged her man on "The Office," but star Jenna Fischer still has her insecurities: "If I could tell women one thing, it would be that everyone worries about their bodies and what they look like in their clothes," she says in the new issue of "Shape." "I've heard gorgeous actresses say, 'My ears are too pointy' or 'My feet are ...

Nationally syndicated radio host Tom Joyner will be in town today seeking justice for two relatives executed in Columbia nearly 100 years ago.

Celebration to mark 106th church anniversary, 11 a.m. Sunday. Theme: "Restoring the Community With the Word of God." Celebration continues at 2:30 p.m. with deacon ordination service for Brother Freeman Heath and Brother Frank McClurkin.

A hunter was recovered from the woods Thursday after falling from a deer stand and dangling in the air for three days.

Nationally syndicated radio host Tom Joyner is asking South Carolina to posthumously pardon two of his great-uncles - black landowners executed in 1915 after being convicted of murdering an elderly Confederate Army veteran.

Annual usher board program, 2:30 p.m. Sunday. Speaker: the Rev. Jerome Boyd of Pine Grove Baptist.

Daniel Zarko and Brittney Eisman of Chester are the parents of a daughter, Kyra Skye Zarko, born Aug.

Wednesday Bible study has resumed. It begins at 6:30 p.m. Armenia UMC Men's breakfast, 8 a.m. Sunday.