Mix up puts drunk drivers back on road
Confusion over a new system of handlingappeals of suspended licenses put 54 people accused of drunk drivingback on Upstate roadways. Under state law, licenses are suspendedautomatically for 90 days for…
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Student housing brings cops to Greenville Tech
Since Greenville Tech opened itsstudent housing in September, six students have been kicked outbecause of criminal violations ranging from drug and alcoholviolations to assault. And police have been called to…
Georgia killer’s arrest offers hope for Clemson case
Before Jason Knapp’s mother left hisUniversity Terrace apartment near Clemson University in spring 1998to go home to Pennsylvania, she filled a backpack from her20-year-old son’s room with a change of…
Know thy neighbor
“When a meeting prevents Lashaun Scott from picking up her son at school, he sometimes walks the few blocks to meet her. It’s a walk that Scott won’t let him…
Women behind bars
In many of the small, stark cells wherethe women of Leath Correctional Institution sleep, three neatly keptbunks squeeze into space barely large enough for two. The maximum security penitentiary builton…
Wrecks pile up
“Greenville County sheriff’s deputieshit seven deer, two coyotes and one dog in 2005. One city cop damaged the windshield ofhis squad car tossing his handcuffs on the dashboard. Even the…
Wrecks pile up
“Greenville County sheriff’s deputieshit seven deer, two coyotes and one dog in 2005. One city cop damaged the windshield of his squad car tossing his handcuffs on the dashboard. Even the…
The will to fight back
Editor’s note: Earlier this week, theGreenville Journal’s April Silvaggio met the teenager who was rapedsix weeks ago on the eastside and talked with her parents. Theirnames are being withheld to…
Friends bolster rape investigation
Editor’s Note: Earlier this week, theGreenville Journal’s April Silvaggio met with two longtime friendsof the father of the teenager who was raped seven weeks ago on theEastside. Their names are…
A strong young woman speaks out
The following letter was written to thepeople of Greenville by the 19-year-old college student who wasbeaten and raped the morning of June 8 as she jogged on the Eastside.She has…
A show of support
Anger. Frustration. Fear. Worry. The reasons they turned out earlySaturday on the grounds of the Pavilion Recreation Complex for theinaugural Run 2 Overcome were as wide-ranging and all-encompassing asthe runners…
Courting disaster
On some nights, sleep comes slowly toCroft Fire Chief Lewis Haynes. Especially the nights when his lastthoughts are about the railcar loads of highly explosive ethyleneoxide parked parallel to Southport…
Land sale brings out the investors
Terry Jessen has more than 100 housesscattered across the country including one in Greenville, but hedoesn’t want most of them. Never wanted most of them in the firstplace either, he…
Kicked out of kindergarten
After being told to sit down and finish his work, a student got mad, stomped over to another student and kicked him in the head. Another repeatedly dropped things in…
Picking up the tab
Anderson County Administrator JoeyPreston spent $14,479 on business meals between Jan. 8 and Oct. 30,2007 using his county credit card. Someone paid the county back for all142 of those meals,…