Greenville County News

The discussion comes as multiple cities in Greenville County have been toying with the idea of imposing penalties on distracted drivers.

Sen. Larry Martin of Pickens, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, told the Senate on Wednesday that the office of state Attorney General Alan Wilson has issued an opinion concluding that a 2008 law under which most of the state’s counties combined election and voter registration boards is unconstitutional.

The Berea area of Greenville County was one of the hardest hit, reporting more than 1,200 customers without power at 8 p.m., according to Duke Energy's website.

The crises facing the College of Charleston and the Medical University of South Carolina today represent a perfect storm of pathologies that have afflicted South Carolina politics for centuries.

A 49-year-old woman has been charged with child neglect, violation of child day care licensing, and obstructing justice after 23 children were discovered in her care on February 21. Deputies responding to an unresponsive infant at a South Carolina day care facility say they found 14 children hiding in the basement of 49-year-old Pamela Clark Wood's ... (more)

A 3-year-old boy who a passenger in a car that was hit by an alleged drunk driver Friday night has died, according to the Richland County Coroner's Office.Coroner Gary Watts said Josiah Caden Jenkins died A 3-year-old boy who was a passenger in a car that was hit by an alleged drunk driver Friday night has died, according to the Richland County ... (more)

To report a problem with a traffic signal in Greenville County call the state Department of Transportation at 855-467-2368.

WE BEGIN WITH BREAKING NEWS... THE MAN ACCUSED OF STRANGLING HIS FORMER TEACHER AND SETTING HER BODY ON FIRE.....WENT BEFORE A JUDGE TONIGHT.

It's getting harder to drop out of high school these days in Greenville County. For one thing, if you do, you're going to hear from Drew Perry.

Once again, a burglary was foiled in the upstate by a homeowner with a gun, Fox Carolina reported March 11. The Gambrell home on Conley Street in Greenville County had a terrifying experience Monday morning in the form of a burglar in the backyard shed.

An Eastside woman is facing charges after Greenville County investigators were called to a house in reference to an unresponsive 3-month-old child, authorities said.

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Even as Furman University gets its first female president and more women take civic and business leadership roles, many say gender equality remains a work in progress.

High stakes accountability testing of public school students is always a topic of great interest, and even though tests do not fully measure what students have learned, they can be used to gauge student progress and to identify academic strengths and weaknesses.

Twin Falls on Reedy Creek is one of Upstate's most popular attractions, mostly because of the ease of access to a viewing platform at the base of the 75-foot-high waterfall.

Changes to the SAT college entrance exam announced recently could put some low-income students in South Carolina in a better position to compete with students who have been able to afford test prep classes, but the impact the new test may have on overall scores is difficult to predict, experts said.

David Picone was working his normal patrol in what the Greenville County Sheriff's office calls Area 2, Greer/Taylors on April 11, 2011, when a dispatcher sent him to 201 Montclair in Greer for a welfare check.

I am still unsure which way I lean. As I have grandchildren in this county's school system, I have seen that when in fourth grade my granddaughter's teacher was doing her very best to find the time in that school year to teach her students how to sign their names.

A Laurel View Log Home is featured in the South Carolina Energy Office's Residential Green Building Fact Sheet as the ENERGY STARA Home in Greenville County.

OBESITY KNOWS NO AGE. ROUGHLY ONE OUT OF FIVE CHILDREN IN SOUTH CAROLINA IS OBESE.