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Local ministers will soon be showing off their culinary chops in hopes of raising money for a domestic violence shelter that serves Pickens, Anderson and Oconee counties.

Efforts to increase recycling in Pickens County got some attention this week as a handful of administrators met in hopes of clarifying goals that have been set by the county.

A Wild West show, coming today to Sumter and continuing through Sunday, will serve as a benefit fundraiser for the American Red Cross in the tri-county area.

A former Iowa man accused of killing his infant son four years ago will go on trial in 2010.

Cities throughout Pickens County could be hit with a new bill - or given a rebate - based on a target recycling rate the county has set for municipalities in an effort to step up recycling.

Voters should check on where they will go to cast ballots today, because many precincts have been combined for the purpose of Tuesday's election, according to a county official.

PICKENS COUNTY a ' Residents in six of the seven towns in Pickens County will be headed to the polls election day to determine several local leaders.

October 30, 2009 - 11:27 p.m. EST By 7 p.m. on Nov. 3, officials will begin tallying the votes for council seats open in Salem, Central and Walhalla.

CLEMSON -- Three people have been arrested following an investigation into a string of thefts in a Clemson neighborhood.

Much of the $9 million legal settlement over the PCB contamination of Lake Hartwell is designed to be spent to improve fishing on the lake and elsewhere with nothing earmarked to remove a third dam that some consider critical to begin cleaning the lake of the chemicals.

The Pickens County Sheriff's Office is investigating an overnight shooting near Central that left an Easley man dead and another man wounded.

October 13, 2009 - 09:25 p.m. EST Jessica Nelms Staff Twelve Mile Creek, which begins in Pickens County and runs through Clemson and into Lake Hartwell, was contaminated from 1955 to 1977 by hundreds of thousands of pounds of polychlorinated biphenyls .

More than three decades after 400,000 pounds of the carcinogen PCB were released into a creek that feeds Lake Hartwell, tests as recent as March find the chemical absent from water headed to kitchen faucets of 190,000 Upstate residents.

PICKENS - Authorities were looking Wednesday for two men following a reported kidnapping and burglary near Central.

October 12, 2009 - 10:21 p.m. EST In this file photo, Earlette Burdette, a volunteer with the Pickens County Chapter of the American Red Cross, undergoes a glaucoma screening conducted by Dee Brosnan of the Salem Lions Club.

Diane Hutson grooms her Yorkshire Terriers "Nova," and "Chief" Sunday during the Hanover Kennel Club All-Breed Dog Show at Legion Stadium in Wilmington.

CLEMSON - Clearing starts Tuesday on a storage site for PCB-contaminated sediment from behind two Twelve Mile River dams - the same day a federal judge hears testimony on a third dam where researchers say PCBs are in the water.

CENTRAL a" County police say a Central woman was held at gunpoint and hands duct tapped behind her back while two men searched and robbed her home.

Special demonstrations and flyovers are part of an open house scheduled for the South Carolina Air and Army National Guard.

A small group of Six Mile residents hopes to generate enough interest - and raise enough money - to start a public library in the growing community.