Call it the Greenville plan
Bob Hughes compares Greenville County Schools to many homeowners in the school district. Few could afford to buy a house without taking out a 30-year mortgage. Similarly Greenville County Schools…
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At Superbike Motorsports in Chesnee, 30-year-old owner Scott Ponder, who’d grown the shop from a shed in his grandmother’s backyard to one of the fastest-growing Suzuki dealerships in the…
Blowing in the wind
Depending on which way the wind blows, most of the Upstate can be downwind and vulnerable to toxic emissions from Duke Energy’s Cliffside coal-fired power plant, environmentalists say. Air quality…
Inman trial resumes
More than four months after he confessed to the 2006 rape and murder of 20-year-old Clemson University engineering student Tiffany Souers, Jerry Buck Inman’s sentencing trial will again be…
Drugs in the water
The chemical stew in drinking water making so much news around the country is present at low levels in outflows from Greenville’s sewage treatment facilities, too, according to EPA figures…
Drugs seep into state’s rivers
People living downstream from the Greenville metropolitan area are literally drinking pharmaceutical drugs and a host of other chemicals from water systems along the Reedy and Saluda rivers. Many of…
Please, pardon me
In South Carolina, convicted felons who apply have a better than even chance of getting a pardon for their crimes. Slightly better. Last year, 53 percent of the 459 people…
Execution now on hold
With the hour of his death three days away and the clock ticking, the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday afternoon granted a stay of execution for Freddie E. Owens to give…
Home, not so sweet home
For more than three years, the house on Greer’s Dillard Drive sat vacant. Even some of the neighbors would grow a little uneasy when they passed by the place where…
Drug money seizures: Where does the money go?
Where the money goes After a man fleeing deputies repeatedly stabbed Kroc the police dog, the vet bill came to $3,456.09. The bill was among those paid with the almost…
GPS units head in wrong direction
Thieves have stolen more than 30 GPS navigation systems out of parked cars in the city of Greenville since the first week of December, and struck again this past weekend,…