Allendale County News Archives

Wednesday, June 24, 2009 at 5:33 p.m. Wednesday, South Carolina's Superintendent of Education was on the Grand Strand.

An archaeologist who's been digging at the Topper Site in Allendale County for 11 years is uncovering new evidence that could rewrite America's history.

ALLENDALE a ' One of South Carolina's largest employers is visiting an area with the state's highest unemployment, looking to fill thousands of new jobs.

More than 500 people braved 90 degree temperatures Wednesday afternoon. Beads of sweat forming.maybe because of the weather, maybe because it could mean a new job.

The state unemployment rate has hit 12.1 percent. The highest numbers can be found in Allendale County with 22.1 percent.

Lynn Simpson applies for five to seven jobs a week. She has done that since November when she was laid off from a real estate firm, but still has not found a new job.

The National Weather Service has issued a severe thunderstorm warning for northwestern Bulloch county Jenkins county Screven county Allendale county northern Hampton county until 330 am edt At 232 am edtNational Weather Service doppler radar indicated a line of severe thunderstorms capable of producing damaging winds in excess of 60 mph.

News 12 at 6 o'clock; June 17, 2009 BARNWELL, S.C. --- Hundreds of people line up and wrap around a school building in Barnwell today, as the unemployed look for new jobs open at the Savannah River Site.