Grayson Allen had 21 points off five 3-pointers, Jayson Tatum had 18 points and 12 rebounds, and second-seeded Duke continued its perfect postseason with an 87-65 victory over Troy in the NCAA Tournament on Friday night to start the East Region. The Blue Devils (29-7) became the first team to win four games on the way to the Atlantic Coast…
Greenville Police are asking for help finding a burglary suspect. The man is suspected of breaking into and stealing a little less than $1,000 in tobacco products from a gas station on the Greenville Bypass. Greenville Police are asking for the public’s help identifying this man. Security footage shows a car pulling up next to the gas station at around 2…
Police are saying around 20 cars were broken into, including an unmarked police car. Greenville Police are investigating several car break-ins that were reported early Wednesday morning. They say the break-ins most likely occured sometime after midnight; the first reports came in between 3 and 4 AM. All were within a mile of one another. Police are saying around 20 cars…
Moving large businesses into smaller towns isn’t easy. Greenville Mayor Dexter McLendon says economic development can be hard, but it’s one of his favorite parts of the job. He says marketing smaller cities like Greenville is difficult, but he’s lucky that Greenville has a few major selling points. The biggest two McLendon uses is the city’s location on the Interstate and the…
The Greenville Amnesty Program begins February 1st and runs until the end of March. Greenville Police are once again extending the annual Amnesty Program to anyone who may have outstanding warrants in the Greenville system. The Amnesty Program is designed to give those who are unable to pay those fines a little relief. That could be up to 33% off…
Greenville Police say they arrested a suspected car thief after investigating a shop lifting call on Saturday. Police were called out to the Fred’s Super Dollar store this weekend after employees say they witnessed a man attempting to shoplift from the store. Police say they arrived and begin questioning the man, 22-year-old Frank Williams of Birmingham, when they realized there…
Greenville Police Chief Justin Lovvorn has one major New Year’s resolution: make Greenville a safer place. Lovvorn says the numbers for crimes in 2016 aren’t in yet, but believes they’ll be similar to 2015 statistics. He wants to lessen the numbers in 2017, and has a good idea of how to do that. Lovvorn is upping police presence throughout the…
Adams scrubs a shirt collar before sending it off to be cleaned and pressed. Jane Majors Adams spent almost every day growing up in the dry cleaning business her father owned. “I had grown up in this place. All my life, he had me back in the back, working when I was 15 years old,” she remembers. “You know, I mean,…
Two Sunday night shootings in Greenville leaves two men injured and one dead. Greenville Police say the shootings happened in a short time frame, and the second shooting happened just as they were processing the first scene. “Normally a violent act like that will be once in a rare occasion,” says Greenville Police Chief Justin Lovvorn. “And to have two,…
Mayor McLendon and other city officials gathered downtown to cut the ribbon and open the city’s newest store, True South. True South Clothing Boutique opened Thursday morning in downtown Greenville. The store is owned and managed by Greenville resident, Chae Brown. Brown owns two other stores downtown, Southern Mint Boutique and Blush Beauty Store. Brown says the dowtown area may…
