A four-year-old Amur leopard left its enclosure at the Greenville Zoo Thursday; staff tranquilized and returned the animal. The zoo remains closed while officials review the incident.

Pickens County opened a 32,000-square-foot Emergency Readiness Center behind its administration building, consolidating EMS, E-911 and climate-controlled storage for response equipment.

A 71-year-old Greenville man was sentenced to 25 years after deputies say they found more than 50 grams of fentanyl, 90+ grams of cocaine and a firearm at his home.

An apartment robbery on Southport Road ignited a multi-highway chase that ended in a head-on crash on SC‑176; four suspects are now in custody. Authorities say injuries were not life-threatening.