Greenwood News

Dozens of South Carolina veterans gathered at the Statehouse on Wednesday to press lawmakers to boost benefits for those who served in the military and their families.

The much anticipated and long awaited Uptown Market is just one step from becoming a reality last Monday after Greenwood City Council passed first reading of an ordinance that would issue a $3 million bond to fund construction of the new farmers market.

Mr. Keon Toriano Deal 35, entered into eternal rest on April 11, 2014 at Hospice Care of the Piedmont.

The Greenwood County Violent Crimes Task Force is investigating a Tuesday afternoon armed robbery of a cash advance store on the 72 Bypass.

A Greenwood man was sentenced to 15 years in prison following a guilty plea at the Greenwood County courthouse on Tuesday.

Greenwood City Council received a clean audit report at their regular meeting on Monday from accounting firm Greene, Finney and Horton.

Eight Piedmont Technical College students were recently awarded the PTC Golf Classic Scholarship at the college's annual scholarship luncheon.

A Greenwood man was arrested over the weekend and is facing multiple charges in connection with two separate violent incidents which occurred in 2012.

Born in Antreville, she was the daughter of the late Jehu P. and Iva Knox Bowen.

A Greenwood man is facing a criminal sexual conduct charge amid allegations he touched a girl under the age of 16 inappropriately.

I've been playing with forms a little this month. It's something I do when I start to feel a little stuck in my writing.

We have a great opportunity to show our friends in Columbia what great Gamecock fans we have here in the Lakelands.

Hayden Harwood sacrificed Bridges to second and Peyton Leopard grounded out to the shortstop for the second out of the inning.

David D. Matthews, 62, of 124 Tally Ho Drive, husband of Sue Cleary Matthews, died Wednesday, April 16, 2014 at Self Regional Medical Center.

Judy Burton, Health Services Secretary, Wesley Commons, Greenwood, S.C. with the 2014 Excellence in Caring -Caregiver Award.

A Greenwood man was sentenced to two years in prison after pleading guilty to a child abuse charge this week at the Greenwood County courthouse.

Born December 30, 1954, in Spartanburg, he was a son of Barbara Louise Fowler Parker and the late Carlos Edmund Parker.

Connie Edwards, of Greenwood, president of the People to People, International chapter in Greenwood, has been named the first Peace Poet Laureate of South Carolina by the international PTPI headquarters in Kansas City, Mo.

The Ladies Auxiliary to the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 8131 is seeking VENDORS for the 2nd Annual Holiday Craft Fair.

A Greenwood woman is facing a charge of unlawful neglect of a child after she allegedly dropped off her 16-year-old daughter, who is supposed to stay in her custody, with another woman and said the daughter would be homeless if not allowed to stay at the other woman's residence.