Lyman News

A Wellford man died Tuesday after leading a Spartanburg County sheriff's deputy on a car chase through Lyman that reached 80 mph and ended when the pursued car hit a tree, authorities said.

A man who Highway Patrol troopers said was driving drunk when he got into a fatal wreck, then left the scene, has been arrested, according to investigators.

A driver who failed to stop when a sheriff's deputy tried to pull him over died when he lost control on a curve, according to Spartanburg County fire officials.

Published: Monday, December 7, 2009 at 3:29 p.m. Last Modified: Monday, December 7, 2009 at 3:29 p.m. The Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office is accusing a Lyman couple of operating a business that defrauded people seeking legal immigration status in the U.S. out of tens of thousands of dollars.

Published: Friday, December 4, 2009 at 3:15 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, December 3, 2009 at 9:58 p.m. Job seekers in Greer, Duncan and Lyman now have a much closer resource center to assist them in their search for employment.

Published: Monday, November 30, 2009 at 11:19 a.m. Last Modified: Monday, November 30, 2009 at 11:19 a.m. Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office Brooks Ray Hammett, 62, of 595 Hammett Store Rd., Lyman, was arrested Sunday and charged with possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime for a Nov.

Published: Sunday, November 29, 2009 at 3:15 a.m. Last Modified: Sunday, November 29, 2009 at 12:03 a.m. South Carolina Highway Patrol Jimmie Ray Sentell, 66, of 231 Shadow Lane, Lyman, on Friday night was arrested and charged with felony driving under the influence, resulting in great bodily injury.

It seemed like a very normal afternoon in Lyman, S.C., a small southern town in upstate; the closest metropolis was Spartanburg, which wasn't all that much of a metropolis.

Published: Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 3:15 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 12:31 a.m. A 19-year-old struck by a passing motorist near Greer early Sunday had refused to ride with an intoxicated driver after a party, authorities said.

A teenager is dead after she was struck by a truck on Highway 357 in Spartanburg County.

John Mills remembered his daughter Sunday as an upbeat, cheerful humanitarian and said that he forgives a man who has been charged with felony driving under the influence in a wreck that claimed her life.

A 17-year-old Lyman girl was killed and five people were injured in a wreck outside Greer, one of two fatal accidents Saturday in the Upstate, a state Highway Patrol spokesman said.

A 17-year-old Lyman girl was killed this morning and five people were injured in a wreck outside Greer, a state Highway Patrol spokesman said.

The South Carolina Highway Patrol said it is investigating an overnight crash in Spartanburg County that left one person dead and five others injured.

Greg Willimon of Pickens, S.C., won the Walmart Bass Fishing League South Carolina Division two-day Super Tournament on Lake Hartwell Sunday with a two-day total of 10 bass weighing 36 pounds, 1 ounce.

A fire Tuesday morning destroyed a Spartanburg County business. The fire happened at Gray's Auto Service on Spartanburg Highway in Lyman.

Authorities are awaiting autopsy results to determine how a Greer woman strapped inside a car died after her and the car were found submerged in a Spartanburg County lake.

Mandy Nicole Godwin of Florence and Robert McKinley Smith of Lyman were married on September 19, 2009 at 3:30 pm at Southside Baptist Church.

A South Carolina congressman had an unexpected critic at his monthly breakfast on Monday.

Rita Allison, a 69-year-old South Carolina grandmother and state representative from Lyman, SC, filed a defamation lawsuit yesterday over an anonymous letter.