Anderson County

The multi-year construction project is expected to begin next summer.

The South Carolina Department of Public Health announced the state's latest measles count Friday.

Case totals now sit at 789 and are spread among 4 counties.

Although the outbreak is still concentrated in Spartanburg County, cases are reported to have spread to schools in different parts of the state like Anderson and Greenville counties.

On Tuesday, Anderson County joined Pickens County in adding seats to the Library Board. Some advocates say adding more voices is a way to censor materials. County officials say there is no political motive.

The county plans to allot more than $418,000 to a suite of drug education and treatment programs.

No one has become seriously ill as of Tuesday, but volunteers and visitors will be kept out for the rest of the week.

A school shooter serving a life sentence without parole for killing a first grader on a South Carolina playground when he was 14 is asking a judge to lessen his sentence so he can eventually get out of prison. A lawyer for now-21-year-old Jesse Osborne says that would give Osborne some hope of freedom in 50s or 60s and a reason to rehabilitate himself. But five witnesses on Monday asked the judge to keep the life sentence for the 2016 shooting at Townville Elementary.

An out-of-date jail and siloed thinking are giving way to holistic attention on the mental health of those who pass through the county's criminal justice system.

Hundreds of war refugees pour into a railway station in Bucharest. The 'lucky' ones make it to Mexico and, eventually, the US. A 23-year-old volunteer tells what she encountered.