http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/south-carolina/startex/ Startex, SC News http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/south-carolina/startex/content/a7d09ccf067f3dbe3696b87cc708056f.html GREER Warrants have been signed charging a Greer man with kidnapping and armed robbery after authorities said a man was taken from the parking lot of El Mariachi Restaurant on Wade Hampton Boulevard on Tuesday night http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/south-carolina/startex/content/bd571a3d4c7f10302680c6ec063ecd19.html Before the plea deal ended the murder trial victims and family members attending Potlows trial left the courtroom in tears as prosecutors played a 911 tape depicting the final moments before the crash http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/south-carolina/startex/content/7a181095a284a5f893731d1f88f8f01e.html Ten thousand customers remain wthout power after high winds made a mess across the Upstate http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/south-carolina/startex/content/32ad775e413a096f280967a35956d5ca.html A former junior ROTC instructor at a South Carolina high school has been found not guilty of two sex charges involving a female studentpA Spartanburg County jury on Wednesday found 50yearold Maxie Carroll Miller not guilty of assault with intent to commit criminal sexual conduct and not guilty of committing a lewd act on a minorpMiller would not talk about the case but his attorney told the HeraldJournal of Spartanburg his client was thankful the system workedpA Broome High School student who was 15 at the time said Miller last January had twice kissed her and touched her inappropriatelypMiller had worked for the school district since 2006 and was suspended when he was arrested http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/south-carolina/startex/content/2116aa56c0faed8d45783d707ed762be.html As of 9 pm Wednesday more than 16000 Duke Energy customers across the Upstate were without power according to Duke Energy as high winds downed trees and made a mess in the area http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/south-carolina/startex/content/c8209babe11c1a1febcb4547f088929e.html Greer police detectives were searching Wednesday for a masked gunman who kidnapped a restaurant worker before demanding that a ransom of 300 and the title to a Cadillac Escalade be delivered to the WalMart on White Horse Road http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/south-carolina/startex/content/53a40ab0490ff1ae1ef07cc5a1034591.html Last month Sen Lindsey Graham voted against spending billions of dollars to prop up Detroitbased automakers http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/south-carolina/startex/content/b97f63250fd888c2da3ebc185df67d71.html More than 350 people attended a rally at a church in Greer to protest a federal judge8217;s order banning South Carolina from producing a religious license plate that carries the words 8220;I Believe8221;pThe Rev Arnold Hiette of People8217;s Baptist Church said Tuesday night he8217;s upset by the Dec 11 ruling by US District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie She said the plate violates the US Constitution8217;s provision forbidding government from establishing a religionpThe plate includes a stained glass window with a crosspHiette said Christians have lost the right to public prayer as well as prayer in schoolspLt Gov Andre Bauer and Attorney General Henry McMaster were at the rally to support the license plate