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Friday, April 19, 2013  Travelers Rest has voted to annex Furman University.

Monday, April 08, 2013  Authorities have jailed a Travelers Rest man after he was spotted walking naked along a highway and carrying a naked 13-month-old.

Thursday, March 14, 2013  The Senate has approved a bill allowing true early voting in South Carolina.

Wednesday, February 06, 2013  Voters in northern Greenville County have selected Mike Burns of Travelers Rest as the Republican candidate a vacant House seat.

Thursday, January 24, 2013  Two people have been killed in a crash in Pickens County.

Tuesday, January 22, 2013  Voters in Greenville County are picking a Republican candidate for a South Carolina House seat.

Wednesday, December 05, 2012  Police say a Travelers Rest man killed his wife, then took their son to daycare the next day before returning home to kill himself.

Thursday, November 15, 2012  Greenville County voters must return to the polls to fill a House seat vacated by the incumbent who won two elections.

Tuesday, October 09, 2012  The leader of the South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles says an employee made a mistake by refusing to let a man change his name to his wife's name unless he had a court order.

Friday, June 03, 2011  A father in Travelers Rest has been charged with homicide by child abuse in the suffocation death of his 1-year-old daughter.  Greenville County authorities say Nevaeh Sprouse was taken to the hospital last month after her mother said she choked while drinking a glass of tea. The child died two days later.

Monday, March 14, 2011  The Supreme Court ruled Monday a circuit judge should not have let 39-year-old Jack Edward Earl Parker be tried a second time in the death of Robert Lee Stewart.

Sunday, June 06, 2010  87-year-old man dies in wreck with SC police car.