Yeah I'm bad ... but in a good kind of way. Six-month-old Levi Ruppe was too young to participate in the Ride for the Rock but he was dressed in his road-worthy gear to support the event. More...
By TIM GULLA Ledger Staff Writer tim@gaffneyledger.com
A 51-year-old Gaffney man was jailed at the Spartanburg County Detention Center on Friday after he was arrested for the alleged robbery of a Spartanburg bank. According to a police report from the Spartanburg Department of Public Safety, an officer was dispatched to the Palmetto Bank at 1544 E. Main St. just before 10 a.m. More...
By LARRY HILLIARD Ledger Staff Writer larry@gaffneyledger.com
The 2008 presidential election, with Sen. Barack Obama bidding to become the first African-American president, will be historic here for another reason, too — voter turnout. Suzanne Turner, chairman of the Cherokee County Election Commission, said she expects voter turnout to reach an all-time high. More...
Heavy rains on Friday morning combined with a runaway tractor-trailer to create a small environmental mess behind a Hyatt Street truck stop. A tractor-trailer that had parked in the Pilot Truck Stop at about midday on Friday apparently got away from its driver and rolled across the large lot into another parked tractor-trailer at the rear of the property. More...
Limestone College, in association with the Cherokee County Arts Council and the Gaffney Little Theatre, will present nine performances of Disney's Beauty and the Beast. The musical will begin its two weekend run on Thursday, Nov. 13, at 7:30 p.m. in Fullerton Auditorium. Other evening performances are set for Nov. 14-15, Nov. 20-21 and 22. More...
Two costly special teams errors and a season long inability to score points came back to haunt Blacksburg in a 22-7 loss Saturday against Landrum. Both teams came out on fire in the first quarter, scoring two touchdowns in a 30-second span in a battle of playoff hopes. More...
SPARTANBURG - Jared Ashley Harris, 36, died Saturday, Oct. 25, 2008, at Spartanburg Regional Medical Center. Born Jan. 17, 1972, in Spartan- burg, he was the husband of Chris Mc- Dowell Harris and son of Rosemary Hammett Harris and the late John Harris. He was a graduate of Limestone College with a B.A. More...
I ain't never been much for hunting. I'm talking about deer hunting, not hunting for a pencil, or a lost sock, or the right words to say when the missus catches me in mid-bite of a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup and says, "You know you're not supposed to eat sweets so what are you doing with that? More...
Shriners bring convention to Gaffney