GoUpstate Spartanburg Local News

A judicial panel is expected to rule this week on whether state lawmakers can keep their redistricting deliberations secret.

One of Charles Dallara's memories from boyhood is of catching fish in the pond at Cleveland Park near his family's home on Lanier Street in Glenwood Estates. Five decades later, he is seeking a bigger catch as a key negotiator in Greece's debt crisis.

Local residents awaiting the completion of the new $13 million Pine Street YMCA were given a rare glimpse of the facility's past, present and future on Saturday.

Limestone College soon will begin accepting students into its new graduate program, which school officials expect will be popular among non-traditional students.

Here's how members of Congress voted on major issues in the week ending Feb. 3.

A locally grown program focused on healthy eating habits in school lunchrooms is gaining statewide momentum.

<p style="BD Body">Almost a year ago, Spartanburg Public Safety Officer Keith Soules lost the lower part of his left leg after a motorcycle crash.

A new South Carolina license plate advocates equality for gay residents in a state that bans any type of domestic union.

State health officials are investigating a suspected outbreak of the norovirus at a hospital-owned nursing home in Seneca.

The Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast-cancer charity on Friday abandoned plans to eliminate grants to Planned Parenthood. The startling decision came after three days of virulent criticism that resounded across the Internet, jeopardizing Komen's iconic image.

The Spartanburg County Coroner’s Office has released the name of a man killed Thursday afternoon in a single-vehicle crash on Vanderbilt Road.

A 40-year-old Spartanburg man is facing a string of traffic offenses after being accused of ramming a Spartanburg County deputy's patrol car during a chase Thursday.

A Campobello man has been accused of inappropriately touching a minor.

An elderly man who claimed he was handcuffed and robbed Friday morning by someone impersonating a police officer concocted the story to gain sympathy, authorities said.

A Cowpens woman died Friday after a two-vehicle collision at the intersection of Highway 29 and Cherry Hill Road.

The Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office has charged Wesley John Blain, 39, of 1509 Water Wheel St. in Greer with kidnapping.

<p style="BD Body">A 40-year-old Spartanburg man is facing a string of traffic-related charges after being accused of hitting a Spartanburg County deputy’s patrol car during a chase Thursday.

Hackers have taken over the websites of several law enforcement agencies worldwide in attacks attributed to the collective called Anonymous, including in Boston and in Salt Lake City, where police say personal information of confidential informants and tipsters was accessed.

Current and former U.S. officials tell The Associated Press that reclusive Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar wrote to President Barack Obama last year indicating an interest in talks key to ending the war in Afghanistan.

In the chaotic evacuation of the Costa Concordia, passengers and crew abandoned almost everything on board the cruise ship: jewels, cash, champagne, antiques, 19thcentury Bohemian crystal glassware and thousands of art objects, including 300-year-old woodblock prints by a Japanese master.