Elloree News

A gathering of friends and a remembrance of his life for Joseph McCollough "Tattoo" Sawyer, 23, will be held Thursday afternoon, May 7, 2009, at his mother's home in Elloree, 2848 Cleven Street and Saturday afternoon, May 9, 2009, at Chuck Belcher's home in Summerton, 1136 Enlow Ct.

A 17-year-old girl and a 20-year-old man have died following a Thursday night wreck in Goose Creek.

Robert "Bobby" Simmons Wactor, Sr. of 1371 Tolly Ganly Circle, 76, died Monday, April 20, 2009.

Services for Josie Snell Onley, 88, of Cayce, will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday, April 16, 2009, at the Chapel of Thompson Funeral Home of Lexington.

Though the National Weather Service cancelled a Tornado Watch earlier Monday, strong winds still did damage to homes in Clarendon and Orangeburg County.

A truck driver was found dead Saturday morning, fatally shot during an apparent robbery while he rested in his cab at an abandoned gas station near I-26, Calhoun County sheriff's deputies said.

Less than a week after a longtime downtown Charleston pharmacy filled its last prescription and closed its doors, another independently owned drugstore said this week that it will expand to East Bay Street.

A small, single engine plane went down Sunday afternoon in Midway, emergency officials say.

God's Kingdom -- The Power of the Water and of the Spirit 2009 FAT Night service, 7 p.m. Friday, Jan.

"My mother, Southern to the bone, once told me all Southern literature can be summed up in these words: 'On the night the hogs ate Willie, Momma died when she heard what Daddy did to Sister.'" - Author Pat ...

Service for Theodore Arthur Mills, Sr., 77, will be held 2 p.m. Friday, December 26, 2008, in the chapel of Thompson Funeral Home of West Columbia, officiated by Rev.

Felder Chapel Holiness Church recently sponsored its second "Cancer Walk" from Joe Miller Park in Elloree to Santee State Park and, as a result, presented a check for $1,000 in support of the H. Filmore Mabry ...

As a child, retired Elloree family physician Dr. Robert Holman often wondered why his ancestors never left anything in writing about his roots.