Christian Boschult

It’s a sweep: Between retirements and lost runoffs, voters will choose four new members of Spartanburg County Council in November.

While data centers animated discussion and drove anti-incumbent anger, two prospective new councilmembers say a different issue drove their primary wins: roads.

It started as a vendor under a tent. Since then, the business has survived plenty of challenges and morphed into a restaurant, caterer, retailer and biggest of all, wholesaler.

SPARTANBURG — Retired eye doctor Alva Pack and his wife, Janice, have lived at their house on Spring Lake Drive for almost 45 years.

SPARTANBURG — Former Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright would sometimes show up to work “high as a kite,” slurring his words and failing to carry on conversations, according to newly filed federal court records.

WOODRUFF — A woman died the morning of July 5 in a house fire that investigators believe may have been related to Fourth of July fireworks.

The sentencing is the latest chapter in a yearslong reckoning for the once-popular sheriff, who resigned last year amid ongoing probes. It won’t be the last, with a state ethics case still pending.

It’s sentencing day for former Sheriff Chuck Wright’s two codefendants, his cousin and longtime SCSO employee L.B. Watson, and former Chaplain Amos Durham. Here’s the latest on their cases.

SPARTANBURG — Spartanburg County plans to ask for the release of a previously allocated $6 million federal HUD grant for the Saluda Grade Trail after determining the project doesn't pose any impact to human health.

SPARTANBURG — In June of 1986, as entomologist Jim Lloyd of the University of Florida was wandering around the Southeast looking for lightning