Greenwood News

For only the second time in more than a century, Belair United Methodist Church will be pastored by a woman.

Index-Journal staff writer Anyone who has ventured into into Uptown Greenwood over the last year or more has noticed the extensive construction efforts going on in a continuing effort to improve the aesthetics ...

One of the rites of summer in the Lakelands is regular pilgrimages to Lake Greenwood for various summer activities in and around the water.

Authorities have identified a man whose body was discovered floating in Lake Murray Saturday as 70-year-old Willie Toole Jr.

A Newberry man drowned Saturday night in Lake Greenwood. According to Greenwood County Coroner's Office representative James Sanders, Hector Sosa, 26, was pronounced dead just after 10 p.m. Sanders said an ...

A former state trooper could face up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for repeatedly kicking a New York man in the head after the man led troopers on a high-speed chase in his dump truck, according to ...

When the members of Still Small Voice & The Joyful Noise take the stage sometime late tonight at the 40 Watt, they'll not only have a new song or two to preview but they'll also welcome a founding member back ...

Saskatchewan-born Dr. Sumeer Lal didn't plan to become an inventor, but he's well on his way after being internationally recognized for helping to develop the "best new medical invention" in 2007.

Promises made are often verbal utterances never kept. Friends or relatives who haven't seen each other in years, may send an e-mail or a letter saying, "We really need to get together." Every now and then it ...

You've got to hand it to officials in the "town" of James Island. Even though they're living under the constant threat of having their city dissolved by court order, they have managed to pass another operating ...

Dorchester County has a new top official in charge of attracting new companies and boosting the area's wealth.

In this one tank trip, we're taking you to a place that sounds like it should be a highway or maybe a radio station.

CLEMSON -- The road to success started in a garbage truck for Clemson residents Jim Oswald and Taji Richardson, who developed a GPS system to help the city cut costs.

A Greenwood man was arrested Wednesday afternoon after allegedly giving a postal employee a Bible with a pornographic picture in it, along with a letter inviting the worker to come to his house and watch ...

Two juveniles and an 18-year-old have been arrested and charged with murder in the shooting death of a Laurens County man Tuesday night, said Laurens County Sheriff Ricky Chastain.

If there is anyone who knows about patience, it would have to be Greenwood High's Byron Best.

A white trooper accused of using his patrol car to hit a black suspect fleeing on foot last year in Greenwood County will fight his federal civil rights charge, his attorney said Thursday.

Parents who allow their children to wade in the Reedy River no longer have an excuse for ignoring the obvious: Swimming in the Reedy isn't a good idea.

The Upstate Alliance will likely reject a consultant's recommendation to start highlighting the Greenville/Spartanburg name in its marketing, an official with the regional economic development organization said ...

Upstate agriculture is precariously balanced and needs rain badly, said state Commissioner of Agriculture Hugh Weathers on a stop at Wal-Mart in Greenville to promote locally grown produce.