Spartanburg News

South Carolina's prison population has dropped 2.8 percent this year, saving taxpayers $5.2 million.

She graduated from Titusville High School in Titusville, Fla. in 1980 and from Gardner-Webb University in 1984, Magna Cum Laude, with a degree in English.

Having previously created furniture pieces from salvaged materials ranging from plastic bottle caps to clothing tags, Benjamin Rollins Caldwell's latest collection should get any tech geek drooling.

Thursday's release of "An Action Plan for Strengthening Workforce Development" in Spartanburg only serves to reinforce the mission of the largest technical college in the state.

A At 63, Stephen Thies spent most of his career as an engineer working for others.

THE UPSTATE BABY-WEARING GROUP meets monthly in Greenville, Spartanburg, Clemson and Anderson.

For information, call 888-828-3555 or visit www.heartfeltcalling.org. THE READING CIRCLE, a book club focusing on adoption and sponsored by SC DSS Region I Adoption, meets monthly at DELTA in Simpsonville.

Lander's Tarryn Angermeier, a sophomore from Spartanburg, S.C., became the third player in the 16-year history of the Lander volleyball program to be named to the AVCA All-Southeast Region team it was announced late Thursday.

A manufacturer of powder coatings will invest $3.7 million to double the size of its existing operations in Spartanburg County.

THE SPARTANBURG COUNTY CORONER SAID AN INVESTIGATION IS UNDERWAY AFTER A PEDESTRIAN WAS STRUCK AND KILLED ON AN UPSTATE HIGHWAY IN LYMAN.

Union County High School Principal Floyd Lyles displays one side of a bird house, painted only with foundation.

A vigil is scheduled to remember people hurt or killed in drunken driving crashes across South Carolina.

During a dinner Thursday in Spartanburg, Haley's office says she is receiving the 2013 Roger Milliken Defender Of Manufacturing Award from the South Carolina Manufacturers Alliance.

Dipali and Adam Britton have joined the food truck scene. Their Sweetly Twisted truck is taking the popular self-serve froyo concept to the streets today.

After being arrested in the Upstate three times this year, rapper and Spartanburg County resident Earl Simmons, better known by his stage name DMX, is set to release a new song – of the gospel variety.

SPARTANBURG -- A Spartanburg County woman has been charged in an October crash that killed another woman.

South Carolina history bubbles to the surface in sometimes unexpected places across the Upstate; little nooks of nondescript woods were once the scene of bustling enterprises that were centers of colonial life and became lynchpins of history.

Sheriff Chuck Wright is set to host a 23rd Annual Candlelight Service of Remembrance and Hope on Thursday at Morningside Baptist Church in Spartanburg.

Want your dog to be as clever as Chaser -the 'world's smartest pooch who knows more than A THOUSAND words? Owner shares his training secrets in new book Chaser the Border collie joined Dr John W. Pilley's family as a puppy and has since learned 1,022 words In a new book, Pilley has outlined how Chaser came to know so many words and suggests that ... (more)

As Free Times went to press Tuesday, city voters were trickling into polling stations to answer a single ballot question: Should Columbia change from its current form of government, in which a hired city manager handles the city's day-to-day operations, to a strong-mayor form, in which the mayor would take on those administrative powers? Visit ... (more)