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Some cities and counties around the country have created programs to divert mentally ill offenders who commit minor crimes into restoration/diversion centers — places staffed with professionals who can treat them.

Here's how area members of Congress voted on major issues in the week ending June 17.

Nearly 50 years after a police raid sparked riots at New York's Stonewall Inn, officers armed with assault rifles stand guard outside the historic bar, protecting patrons after a gunman in Florida staged a massacre at a gay nightclub.

Beautiful weather and a new slope for the slide brought a crowd to downtown Spartanburg Saturday.

Members of Spartanburg School District 2 are mourning the death of longtime educator Howard Lee Painter.

Soldiers from the Upstate gathered with their families Saturday night to say goodbye before deploying to Afghanistan for nine months.

Slide the City returned to Spartanburg Saturday for its second year, and hundreds of people zipped down the 500-foot water slide at its new location on Daniel Morgan Avenue.

Belgian authorities charged three men with terror-related crimes after two days of raids and the detention of 40 people in a major investigation which they said required "immediate intervention" because they feared a new attack was close.

South Carolina is now spending more on mental health than it did during the recession years, but people with mental illness continue to end up in jails instead of getting the help they need, many experts say.