A Spartanburg attorney and state representative recently received an award from the National Bar Association for her role leading its Women Lawyers Division. Rosalyn Henderson-Myers, who represents House District 31 in the General Assembly, received the NBA Division of the ...

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Cameron Littlejohn Jr., who served as an assistant U.S. Attorney General before working in private practice for over 40 years, has died, according to The State. He was 67. Mr. Littlejohn was the son of deceased South Carolina Supreme Court ...

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CHARLESTON (AP) Law enforcement officials have arrested a man who they say threatened a South Carolina lawmaker on his Facebook page. The Associated Press reports South Carolina Law Enforcement Division says 28-year-old Ian Nicholas Nix is charged with threatening the ...

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A Spartanburg County magistrate judge who has served 45 years received the state’s highest honor May 7. Judge James B. Paslay was presented with the Order of the Palmetto at the Spartanburg County Delegation meeting, Go Upstate reported. The award ...

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It’s the best of times and the rattiest of times in Greenville. Condé Nast Traveler named the Upstate city, which is home to more than than 67,000 Greenvillians, the third best small city in the country — around the same ...

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BOILING SPRINGS (AP) — Authorities say two Spartanburg County deputies fatally shot a man while trying to serve a drug-related search warrant at his home. Coroner Rusty Clevenger says 28-year-old Phillip Michael Burgess of Boiling Springs died about 10 a.m. ...

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SPARTANBURG (AP) — The father of a woman shot and killed by a police officer in Spartanburg County last year filed a wrongful death lawsuit. The lawsuit has been filed against the city of Duncan, the police department and officer ...

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COWPENS (AP) — Authorities say a retired Spartanburg deputy shot his wife to death, then turned the gun on himself. The Spartanburg County Coroner’s Office told local media outlets Thursday of his ruling in the deaths of 68-year-old Rex Miguel ...

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SPARTANBURG (AP) — Spartanburg County jail employee Jeremy Thomas hopes he never has to resolve problems with inmates by going into their jail cells again. He described the traditional means of extracting disorderly and noncompliant inmates from their cells as ...

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SPARTANBURG (AP) — Officials in Spartanburg County are trying to figure out how to reduce fatalities and injuries on train tracks. Spartanburg County has had eight people killed or injured while trespassing on train tracks since 2011 and 16 vehicle ...

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