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Tips requested after man abandoned puppies outside Gaffney stores: Police
1+ hour, 37+ min ago (144+ words) GAFFNEY, S.C. (WSPA) " Police officers have asked the public for help identifying a man who abandoned four puppies in Gaffney on Friday. Investigators with the Gaffney Police Department (GPD) said the man left two puppies at the Ingles on 3rd Street around…...
124 new measles cases reported in Upstate Outbreak; 558 total
9+ hour, 30+ min ago (417+ words) COLUMBIA, S.C. (WSPA) " The South Carolina Department of Public Health (DPH) reported 124 new cases of measles since Tuesday, bringing the total number of cases in the Upstate Outbreak to 558. Officials said the outbreak remains centered around Spartanburg County. Currently 531 people are…...
SC governor pushes for universal free school breakfast
13+ hour, 3+ min ago (520+ words) YORK, S.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) " Gov. Henry McMaster said it was Arkansas that inspired him to push for free school breakfast for every student in South Carolina. "That takes away the stigma. It takes away a state singling out the students....
Mural honors monks’ ‘Walk for Peace’ through North Carolina city
2+ day, 5+ min ago (389+ words) CHARLOTTE, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) " A mural in a Charlotte neighborhood has been painted to honor a group of Buddhist monks traveling through the Carolinas for their "Walk for Peace, that stretches from Fort Worth to Washington, D.C." "[It] gives me goosebumps,…...
What is 'Dragon's Breath'? Ammo used in ambush on Upstate officer
2+ day, 6+ hour ago (426+ words) SPARTANBURG, S.C. (WSPA) " 7NEWS is taking a closer look at the type of ammunition used in the ambush of a Greenville Police Department officer on Sunday. Investigators said the suspect fired shots at the officer while he was sitting inside his patrol…...
State Department pauses visa processing from 75 countries
2+ day, 13+ hour ago (327+ words) The State Department announced on Wednesday that it is pausing the processing of'immigrant'visas from'75 countries'as it seeks to screen out immigrants'they argue'will rely on welfare programs. The move, which will affect nearly 40 percent of the countries on the globe, impacts…...
Danish official says there’s a ‘fundamental disagreement’ with Trump over Greenland
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (977+ words) The two sides, however, agreed to create a working group to discuss ways to work through differences as Trump continues to call for a U.S. takeover of the semiautonomous territory of NATO ally Denmark. "The group, in our view, should focus…...
Canada and China: A half-century journey from Pierre Trudeau to Mark Carney
2+ day, 22+ hour ago (664+ words) FILE - Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama shows off a Kata with a Canadian Maple Leaf given to him by Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper prior to their meeting on Parliament Hill in Ottawa Monday, Oct. 29, 2007. (Tom Hanson/Canadian Press…...
Actor Kiefer Sutherland arrested for allegedly assaulting rideshare driver in Hollywood
3+ day, 2+ hour ago (175+ words) (KTLA) " Actor Kiefer Sutherland was arrested for allegedly assaulting a rideshare driver in Hollywood. On Jan. 12, officers with the Los Angeles Police Department responded to reports of an assault near Sunset Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue around 12:15 a.m. Following an investigation, police…...
More charges for suspect in Spartanburg Co. double-homicide investigation: Deputies
3+ day, 6+ hour ago (224+ words) SPARTANBURG COUNTY, S.C. (WSPA) " More charges have been file against a man accused of killing and burning the remains of two people who were found in a Spartanburg County home on Friday. Deputies responded before 9 p.m. to a welfare check at the…...