Greenville County News

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.

Greg Szabo, the top executive at the Nutra Manufacturing plant along Woodruff Road, has watched traffic congestion grow outside of his place of business for 15 years.

A motorcyclist died after a collision with a car on State 253 just outside the city of Greenville, according to the Highway Patrol.

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THE ONLY PICTURE FROM OAKLAND TO A COMPARISON OF MIRRORS DOWNTOWN GREENVILLE THEY'RE WORSE WHAT DO WITH THE LOW CLOUDS IN THE COOL RAIN CONTINUING IN THE BRISK WIND OUT OF THE NORTH EAST AND ABOUT TEN TO TWENTY MPH BUT STILL IT WAS TO PUT UP A FORGED ABLE TO BOAST MORE COULD A BOOK CALLED RANSOM A HEAVIER A BUCKET OF COLD ACCOUNTING THROUGH ... (more)

For one teenager, homelessness is his reality but not his label. Hard work. Struggle.

A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY has been issued until 12PM today for Buncombe, Henderson, Rutherford, Polk, Transylvania, Haywood, Madison.

A cold rain is invading the Upstate, and that will turn to sleet and freezing rain for the mountains tonight.