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Steven Brown grasps his face in agony Friday when told by Anderson County Sheriff's deputies that one of his girlfriend's children was killed at their father's home. Deputies are calling the 7-year-old boy a victim of homicide.


Centerville firefighters battle a blaze that destroyed a Finley Street home about 9:30 a.m. Friday. A mother and her 4-year-old son escaped unharmed.


Shoppers pack Anderson's Toys R Us for deals after the store's 5 a.m. opening on Friday.


Betty Dutton of Anderson heads the line outside Anderson's Office Depot. Dutton started the line at 10 p.m. Thursday to obtain a deal on a laptop when the store opened at 6 a.m. Friday.


A forensics technician with the Anderson County Sheriff's Office searches for fingerprints after a reported home invasion injured an 81-year-old woman Tuesday on Rexton Drive in Anderson.


Anderson County Sheriff's deputies search for clues Tuesday after a masked man reportedly entered a Rexton Drive home in Anderson and beat an 81-year-old woman.


City of Anderson firefighter Luke Riddle pours water into a gutted Volkswagen van that was destroyed Monday when fire swept though a barn on Old Williamston Road.


City of Anderson firefighter Luke Riddle pours water into the smoking ruins of a barn that was destroyed Monday morning on Old Williamston Road.


A woman was injured Friday morning when a trractor-trailer slammed into a Cadillac at an Anderson intersection


Carmelia Edmonds clutches one of her two Chihuahuas early Tuesday as she watches Anderson County firefighters pour water into her house on Lyons Street. Edmonds, face covered in soot, escaped the fire with her husband Larry Edmonds after neighbors banged on their front door.


Not much is left of a home's roof on Lyons Street in Anderson after flames from a fireplace reportedly destroyed the structure early Tuesday. Neighbors rushed to the home's front porch, alerting the couple inside. No one was injured, but a Chihuahua is missing.


Westminster Fire Chief Chris Smith looks at the gutted remains of a house on U.S. 76 west of Westminster that was fully involved in flames when firefighters arrived about 5:40 a.m. Thursday.


Westminster firefighters pour water onto a pre-dawn fire Thursday that destroyed a home on U.S. 76 about 5 miles west of Westminster.


Michael Turner glances at his pregnant wife Wednesday in Anderson County General Sessions Court after pleading guilty to 2 crimes in the 2006 shooting death of a Yellow Cab driver.


Students at Lakeside Middle School in Anderson place more than 1,000 American flags outside their school Tuesday to honor Veteran's Day.


Marine veteran and Anderson resident James Osborn (red coat) waits his turn Tuesday to place an American flag outside Lakeside Middle School during a Veteran's Day ceremony.


Lakeside Middle School seventh grader Jalisa Simmons helps to pass out American flags Tuesday as more than 1,000 students placed the flags outside the school to honor veterans.


A stuck accelerator is blamed for accident at Anderson County Animal Shelter.


An Anderson County Sheriff's deputy and sheriff's Detective Andy Tribble wait for a search warrant Friday before entering the shattered entrance to a home on Corning Street. A man's body was inside the house.


An Anderson County Sheriff's deputy and sheriff's Detective Andy Tribble wait for a search warrant Friday before entering the shattered entrance to a home on Corning Street. A man's body was inside the house.


Anderson police officer Mark Miller photographs damage to an office at Pro-Design on Williamston Road. A car outside the wall behind Miller crashed into the exterior wall seconds after a nearby head-on collision.


A mother and two children, ages 2 and 3, escaped serious injury Monday when a head-on collision put the car on a collision course with Pro-Design on Williamston Road.


Anderson firefighters work to remove a driver from a Honda after the vehicle sped along a sidewalk for about 3 blocks from the scene of a wreck. The Honda came to rest outside a North Main Street business after clipping a light pole.


Anderson Police officer Donald Hodges secures the entrance to Heatherwood Apartments on West Whitner Street on Monday morning. About 4:30 a.m. Sunday flames destroyed the 2-story entranceway to an apartment complex, occupied by 45 residents


Family members of the 45 residents at Heatherwood Apartments on West Whitner Street in Anderson wait their turn to enter the building and retrieve possessions. The building’s main entrance was destroyed by an arson fire early Sunday.


A political statement has answered the public's right to determine the use of drought-exposed land on Hartwell Lake. Republican Don Bowen, who is seeking re-election in November to District 8 in the South Carolina House to represent Anderson and Oconee counties, said Wednesday that he saw no problem with the placement of 2 of his campaign signs that supporters reportedly placed on a small mound of exposed land near the S.C. 24 highway bridge. “I see them every day,” said Bowen of Anderson. “They are small signs. I don't see that they create any problem with safety issues.” Citing a response from the Hartwell Lake Project Office, Jeanne Hodge, public affairs spokeswoman for the Corps' Savannah District, said public cooperation would save Corps' resources needed to remove them.


Piles of hay in western Anderson County litter the ground across Dobbins Bridge Road from a storage building where fire destroyed 48 rolls of hay about 4 a.m. Tuesday.


Anderson police search a man suspected of road rage Friday behind the Anderson County Courthouse. The incident reportedly began on South Murray Avenue.


Anderson police search a man in connection with a road rage incident today behind the Anderson County Courthouse. The incident reportedly began on South Murray Avenue.


Cornell Scott, left, father of homicide victim Timothy McIntosh, tells accused shooter Billy Davis III, right, to "take a look at this face" during Wednesday's first appearance in Anderson Municipal Court. Anderson Police investigator Mike Aikens, middle, looks on.


Ada Martin of Pelzer displays 3 playing cards with Anderson County residents who are victims of unsolved homicides. Martin's son, Richard Martin, 24, who died 13 years ago, is the 4 of hearts. South Carolina Department of Corrections unveiled their first printing Tuesday with images and details of 52 unsolved homicides and missing persons.


Jonathan Villegas, a 911 dispatcher for Anderson County Emergency Services, checks computer monitors at his workstation, which is designed to control fire responses to Anderson County municipalities. The monitors provide Villegas electronic maps of fire locations and a system of tonesto dispatch firefighters in the cities of Anderson, Belton, Honea Path and Williamston.


Balloon crew members used a propane burner to their canopy with hot air.


Balloon crewmembers stretch fabric to let a fan inflate a canopy.


Flying about 500 feet above west Anderson, pilot Wayne O'Shields maneuvers his hot-air balloon toward the Anderson County Airport.


Balloons launch from the lawn of the Anderson Civic Center about 8 a.m. Friday during the initial moments of the second annual BalloonFest.


Ground crews use a fan to expand the interior of a balloon's canopy prior to launch Friday from the lawn of the Anderson Civic Center.


A crew member holds ropes as a balloon's canopy begins its expansion prior to launch Friday from the Anderson Civic Center.


Hot-air balloons lift off Friday at the start of the second annual BalloonFest in Anderson.


Glenn Hardy consults with electricians after a generator was used to power a smoker and refrigeration units outside the Ole County Smokehouse on S.C. 81 following a fire.


Students, parents and teachers line the first grade hallway at McLees Elementary School in Anderson County minutes before Tuesday's start of the first day of school.


Carmen Elkins, kindergarten teacher at McLees Elementary School, prepares a piece of poster paper with a child's name for a parent to put on a vehicle's dashboard Tuesday afternoon to help ease the end to the first day of school in Anderson County.


Carmen Elkins, a kindergarten teacher at McLees Elementary School in Anderson County, comforts a child on the first day of school on Tuesday.


Anderson County Magistrate William Bates conducts a hearing Wednesday with Floyd S. Geer III of Central, who was arrested Tuesday and charged with Monday’s shooting death of Evens Guillauane in Pendleton.


SWAT ends simulated shooting at Anderson school


An Anderson policeman investigates an accident Wednesday that left an Isuzu Rodeo embedded in the front of an Hanover Ridge Apartment.


Michael Malpass stands at the intersection of U.S. 178 and U.S. 123 in Liberty Thursday, looking at a route he plans to walk Friday with a 65-pound cross that Malpass began carrying from Massachusetts in March.


Nylchia Bash, first grader at Nevitt Forest Elementary School, sharpens her pencil Thursday on the first day of school in the fourth year of Anderson County Distrit 5's modified scheduling.


Pauline Mize of Berry Lane in Anderson's Homeland Park points to the path taken by an out-of-control Jeep that injured an 8-year-old boy Sunday afternoon,


A city of Anderson firefighter checks the remains of a tractor-trailer for a diesel spill Friday morning at Exit 19 on I-85.

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