Monday, Sept. 24 – volleyball – Anderson Montessori at Laurens Academy, 5; Clinton Middle at Southside Christian, 5; golf – Laurens at Lady Eagle Invitational (Stoney Points), 12:30.

Presbyterian College’s first football victory of the season was its 500th all-time.

For the second week in a row, Laurens Academy’s youthful football team pulled away in the second half to win a South Carolina Independent Schools Association eight-man game at home over Calhoun Academy of St. Matthews by a score of 52-32

On Sept. 20, investigators of the Laurens County Sheriff’s Office arrested three people in relation to a burglary and theft on Hwy. 72 W. in Clinton.

PENDLETON – The distance from Clinton to Pendleton, a place the Red Devils had never visited, was 73 miles. After the Bulldogs demolished the Red Devils, 39-6, on Friday night, the bus ride home must have seemed like Constantinople to Kingdom Come.

The popular view is that Presbyterian College football has its problems.

The Clinton High School girls’ tennis team battled the Vikings of Emerald on Thursday evening, but most of the blows, not to mention serves and volleys, were landed by the Red Devils. Clinton won, 7-0.

Evan Prince won the individual race, and Laurens’ boys’ cross country team finished second to Dixie High School on Tuesday at home.

Every varsity football team in Laurens County enters the weekend feeling as if it has something to prove, a bar to cross and a form to mold.

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Another confirmed case of West Nile Virus has been found in Laurens County, and the Emergency Management Director, Joey Avery, has again ordered precautionary mosquito spraying at the recommendation of the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control.

On Saturday, Sept. 15, the Laurens County Sheriff’s Office was dispatched to a call for service at the Dollar General on Hwy. 56 in Clinton.

On Monday, the Laurens County Sheriff’s Office was dispatched to a call for service at 3S International on Neely Ferry Rd. in Hickory Tavern.

Destruction and delay stemming from Hurricane Florence has led the S.C. High School League to extend football season for the third time in four years.

Eighth Circuit Solicitor David M. Stumbo and Laurens County Sheriff Don Reynolds announced Tuesday morning that the State has served formal notice that it intends to seek the death penalty against William Ryan Looper for the murder of 2-year-old Brantley Justin Smith.

The Presbyterian College football team has added a game to its 2018 schedule as the Blue Hose will welcome in Lindsey Wilson College on Thursday, Sept. 27, at Bailey Memorial Stadium.