Anderson County News

Anderson County deputies said they used an informant to make more than two dozen arrests at two Upstate poker games.

A man was still at Greenville Memorial Hospital on Sunday night after he was shot multiple times and then wrecked his truck in front of the Pelzer Rescue Squad, early Sunday morning, authorities said.

Longtime South Carolina State Senator T. Ed Garrison has died. Anderson County Deputy Coroner Charlie Boseman said that Garrison died of natural causes at his home in Anderson County Sunday afternoon at age 91. Garrison served in the South Carolina legislature for more than 30 years.

Easley's Jere Kirkley is nothing if not your average deer hunter, content to spend a morning or late afternoon afield here and there in hopes of putting a few deer in the freezer on an annual basis.

If you don't have your own boat or access to decent shore fishing, you can hit the fishing piers at Folly Beach and Mount Pleasant's Memorial Waterfront Park.

Anderson County sheriff's deputies are investigating an early morning robbery that occurred at a Powdersville restaurant.

Authorities say the assembling of a special task force in the Upstate is helping to uncover more white-collar crimes.

A former employee is accused of committing an armed robbery at a hotel after he was caught on surveillance video.

Anderson School District 1's spending plan for 2013-14 includes money for additional school resource officers, a pay raise for employees and a tax increase on property other than owner-occupied homes.

Anderson County Sheriff's deputies have charged a woman with six counts of mistreatment of animals after they found several dead cows in a barn.

Seventeen high school students from Greenville, Pickens and parts of Anderson and Spartanburg counties have been named winners of college-sponsored scholarships through the National Merit Scholarship Corp. The awards are worth between $500 and $2,000 a year for up to four years.

A man armed with a handgun had pharmacists fill-up a book bag with a list of prescription drugs at an Upstate CVS story, according to police.

The remnants of violent storms that killed more than a dozen people in Oklahoma moved out to sea with a whimper Monday, but not before sending punishing winds and torrential downpours to New England and spawning a tornado in South Carolina.

A tornado touched down in Anderson County and more than six inches of rain fell in parts of Aiken and Edgefield counties as a weather front moved through the state late Sunday.

A series of strong storms swept through the Upstate Sunday night, spawning tornadoes and surging waters in Anderson County.

Damaging winds knocked down trees and utility wires in parts of northern New England on today, flights were delayed in New York City and there were reports of a tornado in South Carolina as the East Coast braced for the remnants of violent weather that claimed 10 lives in Oklahoma.

Emergency officials say they've received a report of damage to one house in Anderson County, where a tornado warning was in effect.

Anderson County deputies are searching for two men they say robbed the Plez U store on East Main Street in Pendleton.

A lawsuit filed in Anderson County alleges that Angel Roland, a former employee of AnMed Health contractor HealthPort Technologies, illegally accessed patients' confidential and medical information.

Staff Reports A third Anderson County teenager was arrested during the weekend in reference to a burglary of a Due West home earlier this month.