Adult tickets ran $12 as vendors let visitors handle animals before buying. One attendee left with a tortoise named Lemmy.

Bowling with the Bits hits Spare Time Greenville on October 8, with proceeds funding the YMCA's RECESS program for adults with diverse abilities.

More than 40 balloons were scheduled to be brought to the Anderson balloon launch field for the September 4-6 Hot Air Affair, supporting the Cancer Association of Anderson.

Last year's Golf Classic raised nearly $60,000 — about six months of counseling for Greenville families in crisis.

The 13th annual event lands on Tom Turner's Earls Bridge Road farm this weekend, with sawmill demos and a military history display joining the mix.

Columbia is asking for $1.6 million to stop pulling Social Security checks from foster children who lost a parent.

The county's only homeless shelter says it needs to relocate within weeks, and its attorney calls the ruling legally wrong.

Fostering Great Ideas returns to The 405 downtown, hoping to top last year's crowd of more than 320 guests.

New United Way figures show 81,000 Greenville County residents struggling, with rent arrears pushing many toward eviction.

A small Kentucky volunteer fire department asked Greenville firefighters for a favor, and GCFD delivered a station tour Dalton won't forget.

The Phillis Wheatley Community Center will induct the late civil rights leader, whose activism began at a segregated Greenville library in 1960.

The 28th annual festival moves indoors to Bon Secours Wellness Arena, with $5 admission and free entry for kids 7 and under.

More than 750 people turned out for Capstone Church's Aug. 2 grand opening of its new gym and lobby in Fountain Inn.