Greenwood News

The Newberry Elite 10th-grade girls AAU basketball team finished its season in May, capturing second at the Metro City Classic in Columbia.

Cobb, who was born in Albany, Ga., grew up in Greenwood and first started playing music while in seventh grade at Northside Middle School.

Thaddeus David Creswell, 53, died Monday, June 17, 2013 at Self Regional Medical Center, Greenwood.

Pictured are the Color Guard from Troop 911: Asa Stallworth, Matthew Holmquist, Kieron Holmquist and Assistant Scoutmaster Gray Stallworth.

The Laurens County Sheriff's Office is investigating an armed robbery that occurred around 6 a.m. on the morning of June 13, 2013 at the Hot Spot convenience store located at 4036 Highway 221 South in Laurens, SC.

Census information released last week tells what many of us already knew and know: South Carolina is growing, particularly along her coast.

DHEC attorney John Harleston, left, listens to Kathryn Williams, a Greenville-based personal injury lawyer, argue why the judge should extend a temporary restraining order to keep DHEC's Greenwood office open on weekends.

Greenwood City Council voted unanimously to deny a zoning change that would allow three fraternity houses to be built on W. Durst Avenue by a group based out of Augusta.

WARE SHOALS A Greenwood woman has been arrested after investigators say nearly $25,000 is unaccounted for from the Piggly Wiggly store in Ware Shoals.

Staff Reports Three people were arrested Friday when Greenwood Drug Enforcement Unit agents went to serve an arrest warrant in the Fairforest neighborhood.

Staff Reports Three people were arrested Friday when Greenwood Drug Enforcement Unit agents went to serve an arrest warrant in the Fairforest neighborhood.

The Greenwood Police Department has charged a Greenwood man in two additional armed robberies after charging him with the armed robbery of a convenience store that occurred in March.

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This is a piece of artwork done by Greenwood artist Marianne Lenti who will have a booth at this year's S.C. Festival of Flowers Arts and Crafts Show on Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Piedmont Technical College's event center.

Race car driver Daniel Alvarez, center, shows off under the hood of his late-model stock car Saturday at Buffalo Grill in Uptown Greenwood.

Greenwood School District 50's 2012-13 teachers of the year stand with a truckload of items collected during its Helping Hands, Helping Hearts campaign last month.

Elvis, also known as Damon Hendrix, performs during the S.C. Festival of Flowers sanctioned concert and cruise-in Saturday in Uptown Greenwood.

Thomas Milton Hackett, Sr., 59, of 102 Daniel Heights Drive, Ninety Six, South Carolina, husband of Sally D. Hackett, passed from this life Wednesday, June 12, 2013.

The Greenwood Police Department arrested three suspects in connection with a shooting last month along Franklin Street that left a Hispanic man dead.

He didn't spend time with many of his neighbors, but he never seemed unfriendly either, often waving or talking across the fence surrounding his house in the city of Greenwood, neighbors said this week.