Greenwood News Archives

Beleaguered Bank of America Corp Chief Executive Ken Lewis will retire by year's end and his successor is yet to be determined, the bank said on Wednesday.

FORT JACKSON, S.C. - Soldiers in boot camp are getting something new this year besides rigorous basic training - Army-green bottles of hand sanitizer gel, part of a stepped-up effort by the military to ward off swine and seasonal flu.

Everything from pottery to paintings are on sale at the 34th annual Atalaya Arts Festival which draws artists from 12 states to South Carolina coast.

The Laurens County Sheriff's Office is investigating the deaths of a mother and daughter who had been missing since Sunday.

A missing mother and her teen daughter were found dead Tuesday in the back seat of a car submerged under the surface of Lake Greenwood about 80 feet from the shoreline, leaving investigators perplexed about how it ended up there.

A mother and daughter who were reported missing Sunday in Greenwood, were found dead in a car in Lake Greenwood early Tuesday morning.

Two new locations are in the works for Countybank, a Greenwood-based community bank that's expanding its footprint in the Upstate with a financial center at Hudson Corners in Taylors and another in Greer.

DP3 Architects, Ltd. has been selected to provide a student housing master plan at Lander University in Greenwood, SC.

VALHALLA, N.Y. FUJIFILM announced earlier this year that its primary U.S. manufacturing complex, located in Greenwood, S.C., has begun using methane gas from a local community landfill to power approximately 40 percent of its operations.

Five South Carolina public schools are among the 314 schools nationwide named 2009 Blue Ribbon winners.

Homegoing Services for Matilda Ann Frazier will be held 1:00 p.m. Monday at Zion Chapel Baptist Church - Reeder Point, with burial to follow in Greenlawn Memorial Gardens.

Recapturing the energy of his brightest days on the campaign trail, President Obama attempted yesterday to pull his signature health-care initiative out of the summer doldrums with a plea for help from thousands of his most dedicated supporters.

President Barack Obama called out a South Carolina elected official during a speech on health-care reform today, but it wasn't U.S. Rep.

Obama launched into an often used stump speech about an early campaign stop in Greenwood, South Carolina, a Democratic Party stronghold in the South.

ABC News' Rachel Martin and Sunlen Miller Report: What do you do when your poll numbers are at record lows and the issue you hope to hang your legacy on is getting more controversial by the day? If you're President Obama, you dig up a favorite campaign chestnut and "Get Fired Up!" It was a frequent rallying cry of then candidate Obamaa the story of ...

Warming up for Wednesday's speech to the nation on his vision for an overhauled health care system, an animated Obama retold the story of how the phrase "fired up, ready to go" became a rallying cry during his presidential campaign.

Even for people familiar with the Angel Flight program, the numbers might be startling.

With the swine flu virus spreading quickly among South Carolina students, several Upstate hospitals have asked youngsters not to visit hospitalized family members or friends.

Attorney General Henry McMaster will address the Greenwood County Republican Party's Emerald Elephant Barbecue on Thursday, September 3, 2009.

WHAT'S HAPPENING THIS WEEK AT GCT?!?! Greenwood Community Theatre will be holding auditions for the Agatha Christie mystery THE MOUSETRAP on Tues and Wed Sept 8th and 9th from 6:00-9:00 pm.

Gresham Barrett to Campaign in Greenwood, SC COLUMBIA, SC - U.S. Congressman Gresham Barrett's gubernatorial campaign today announced that Gresham Barrett will speak at the Emerald Elephant GOP Gubernatorial BBQ in Greenwood on Thursday, September 3rd.

A new coffee table book highlighting South Carolina's 47 state parks is in bookstores.