Edgefield News

Juan Angel, a Millbrook Elementary School fifth-grader, has an intriguing family background: His mom's mother is from South Korea and his dad is from Mexico.

The number of South Carolina high school students passing the state's exit exam dropped this year for the first time in three years.

High school students in Aiken and Edgefield counties fared better than the average South Carolina student on the high school exit exam.

A North Augusta man wanted for carjacking was pursued by police but escaped arrest Wednesday, despite crashing into the back of a North Augusta business during the chase, officials said.

A year after Aiken County officials announced plans to become a part of a nationwide hydrogen energy initiative, usage of this alternative fuel source has increased but its everyday potential still seems years in the future.

Monday, November 09, 2009 Quail Unlimited faces bleak financial outlook Quail Unlimited, the nation's largest conservation group devoted to bobwhite quail, has shut its doors, furloughed its 24 remaining employees and put its national headquarters in Edgefield, S.C., up for sale to resolve what board members say are catastrophic financial problems.

Container hits truck, kills Edgefield man An Edgefield man was killed Monday when the Ford truck he was driving was crushed by a tractor-trailer container unit.

Sandy Oaks Pro Rodeo Parade at 2:00 pm Edgefield, SC. Equine only. Wagons and buggies welcome.

A South Carolina man has been killed after a tractor-trailer hit a train trestle, causing the container the rig was hauling to fall onto the man's pickup truck.

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Jane Bess Pottery and the Edgefield Pottery Museum were both featured in Encore Atlanta this month.

September 25, 2009 - 10:57 p.m. EST WALHALLA - Former Oconee County Administrator Dale K. Surrett is apparently looking for work just a few hours drive away from his Lake Keowee home.

IEDs have now added a new dimension to battlefield injuries. Doctors are seeing an increase in injuries and even deaths among troops who have no external signs of trauma but whose brains have been severely damaged.

A man is dead after an accident on Highway 25 in Edgefield County. 49-year-old James Regina of Belvedere was killed when his minivan struck a logging truck.

At its meeting to be held Sept. 22, the Dorset Historical Society will present Arthur F. Goldberg, retired physician, and collector, writer, and lecturer on historic pottery, in a program titled "The Pottery of the Enslaved African-American Potter, Dave." Maker of vessels of great presence and individuality, Dave did his work in Edgefield, S.C.

The South Carolina transportation department is warning drivers in a number of counties about a slow moving 'superload'. Starting Friday SCDOT will move a power generator weighing almost 2 million pounds through a number of upstate counties on its way to North Carolina The generator will be brought ashore Friday from the boat ramp located near ...

Traffic is expected to be affected beginning Sept. 18 when two huge trucks will travel through South Carolina carrying a "superload" weighing nearly 2 million pounds, according to the state Department of Transportation.

Leave it to South Carolinians to make fools of themselves in the public forum. We did it again last Wednesday night when Rep.

According to our news partner, "The Edgefield Daily" , authorities in Johnston, SC are searching for a shooting suspect.

There's some "funny money" floating around Edgefield County and investigators say the bills are making their way to adjoining areas.