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Plans are progressing for a 72-unit town home development on the west side of Spartanburg.

The city of Spartanburg will acquire Oakview Apartments for $1.9 million after a unanimous decision by City Council Monday evening.

Members of the Spartanburg branch of the NAACP Monday night expressed the desire to meet with local law enforcement officials and to increase the diversity training given to officers.

Five men from Spartanburg were sentenced to prison Monday for their involvement in a sex trafficking scheme, according to the U.S. District Attorney's office.

Gun-rights activists, some of them wearing camouflage and military-style gear and openly toting rifles and handguns, marched alongside the hundreds of people who flocked to downtown Dallas last week to protest police shootings of blacks.

Dollar General will hold a distribution center recruitment event from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday at SC Works Spartanburg, 220 E. Kennedy, St., Spartanburg.

During an investigation, deputies arrested Hughie Todd Haire, 42, of 102 2nd St. in Union, and Michael Cleveland Trantham, 30, of 126 Lancaster Road in Jonesville.

Patrick Dewayne Prince, Jr., 20, and Devageo Kornelius Talley, 21, both of 160 S. Church St. in Duncan, were each charged with armed robbery, first-degree burglary, first-degree assault and battery and possession of a weapon during a violent crime, according to Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office arrest warrants.

The Highway 9 bridge crossing the Broad River in the town of Lockhart will be closed for nearly a month starting next week — and the detour will have travelers going an extra 35 miles.

A sheriff says two bailiffs and a gunman are dead at a western Michigan courthouse where a shooting happened.