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Crime / Public Safety
N. Olivia Locklear works the public-safety desk in Spartanburg and has been covering the beat for 17+ years. Their reporting centers on US-29 and Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office, with daily blotter and major-incident coverage as the core. Centers each story on the question Spartanburg readers actually have.
19 published stories
A fatal head-on collision on SC Highway 101 in Spartanburg County killed five people in the early hours of Friday morning, including an off-duty sergeant who was returning\u2026
Five people are dead and one is hospitalized after a head-on collision in the early hours of Friday morning, May 15, 2026, on Highway 101 near Bellview Road\u2026
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster announced Wednesday that he will call a special session of the General Assembly to redraw the state's seven congressional districts, reviving a Republican\u2026
a city police officer, Don "DJ" Keller, a 31-year-old K-9 handler and U.S. Army veteran, was killed Monday evening when a teenage driver fleeing a traffic stop in\u2026
A driver was killed Wednesday morning after their vehicle struck the rear of a tractor-trailer that had been illegally parked along Interstate 85 South near an Upstate South\u2026
A deliberate attack on telecommunications infrastructure in Spartanburg County left portions of the Upstate without internet and phone service early Sunday morning, triggering a criminal investigation and a\u2026
Spartanburg County narcotics investigators seized approximately 2,958 grams — roughly six and a half pounds — of cocaine from a residence on Kendrick Street in Greer on April\u2026
King Charles III and Queen Camilla visited the National September 11 Memorial in Lower Manhattan on April 29, honoring nearly 3,000 victims in the first stop by a\u2026
Trump welcomed the Artemis II crew to the Oval Office on April 29 after their 252,756-mile moon flyby broke Apollo 13's 1970 distance record.
Bottom line: A Spartanburg home does not need a thousand-dollar security system to be safe while you are out of town. Most break-ins are crimes of opportunity —\u2026
The Storm Prediction Center elevated the St. Louis region to a Level 4 out of 5 — Moderate Risk — for severe thunderstorms on Monday, April 27, 2026.\u2026
Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel is refusing to apologize after the White House and First Lady Melania Trump called for his firing over a joke aired on Jimmy Kimmel\u2026