Before the Titanic, Hollywood director James Cameron filmed another underwater movie - "The Abyss" - in an abandoned nuclear reactor in Cherokee County. Shelby movie producer Earl Owensby converted a large cement tower in 1988 on the Cherokee Nuclear Plant site into the largest underwater set in the world at 7 million gallons. More...
By SCOTT POWELL Ledger Staff Writer spowell@gaffneyledger.com
Local lawmakers will ask the S.C. Attorney General's Office to look into accusations of misconduct made by employees in the Cherokee County Veterans Affairs Office. More...
By TIM GULLA Ledger Staff Writer tim@gaffneyledger.com
A 22-year-old Shelby, N.C., man was arrested early Friday and accused of trying to flee from an armed robbery at a grocery store in a taxi. Orrin Henderson Petty, 1800 Woodbine St., is charged with armed robbery. According to the Cherokee County Sheriff's Office, Petty walked into the Ingle's on 3rd Street on Friday at about 6:51 a.m. More...
Local Boys & Girls Club director Vance Hammond remembers sitting in front of his television when he was a young boy and watching wrestling legends like Ricky Morton. Never did he believe he would get the chance to meet them or even work with them. More...
Wendy Michelle Strain of Gaffney and Shannon Wayne Bridges of Mooresboro, N.C., exchanged marriage vows Saturday, May 10, 2008, at Lavonia Baptist Church in Mooresboro, N.C. The Rev. Harold Bradley conducted the 4 p.m. double ring ceremony. More...
The Gaffney Gold Mite League all-stars refused to crack on Monday. After dropping the first game 17-6 to Woodruff, Jack Masters, Kyle Hamrick and Dylan Peterson each homered to help Gaffney capture the Cal Ripken state tournament for 7 and 8 year olds with a 17-3 victory. More...
Served as counselor for South Carolina Vocational Rehabilitation Center in Walterboro for 23 years
WALTERBORO - Dan Irvine Howard III, 75, died Sunday, July 13, 2008, in Beaufort after several years of declining health. Mr. Howard was born on May 24, 1933, in Carlisle, Pa., to the late Dan I. Howard and Dorothy S. Howard, who moved from Idaho to Dale, S.C., a number of years ago. More...
Have you ever thought someone's behavior to be a bit odd? I'm not talking about something you see someone do once in a blue moon, but rather a continued pattern of oddness? And I'm not referring to those folks who are just a bit different...the ones who might be referred to as "odd birds. More...
A bad first day at work MYRTLE BEACH - A teen trying to earn money over the summer to pay his cell phone and car insurance is recovering after he was attacked with fireworks on his first day on the job. More...
HANGING 10 ON DRY LAND