Mike Ellis

• Fuel truck stolen from construction site, $5,000 reward offered Published 05/23/2012 at 1:16 p.m.

  Anderson County sheriff's deputies are looking for help solving a theft of a fuel lube truck worth $55,000

• Autographing an airplane Published 05/22/2012 at 9:28 p.m.

  Richard Jones has signed airplane paperwork hundreds of times before in his decades as a military and commercial pilot.

• Storms cause damage, 30 percent chance of more rain Wednesday Published 05/22/2012 at 8:32 p.m.

  A Tuesday evening storm brought down several trees in Anderson County but the brunt of the storm was felt in Greenville County.

• Greenville man arrested on child porn charges Published 05/22/2012 at 7:04 p.m.

  Anderson police officers arrested a Greenville man on Monday on charges of possessing child pornography.

• Man sentenced to 25 years for fatal 2010 shooting in Powdersville Published 05/22/2012 at 6:48 p.m.

  Daryl Allen Newton, 22, of Greenville was sentenced Tuesday to spend 25 years in prison for two 2010 crimes.

• Assailants blame attack on man that elderly couple don’t know Published 05/22/2012 at 5:23 p.m.

  A Pickens County couple in their 70s were assaulted early Monday morning in their home, according to a deputy’s report.

• Two-county chase ends with man shooting himself Published 05/22/2012 at 5:07 p.m.

  A chase that began in Anderson County ended about 40 minutes later when the driver of the car shot and killed himself, said Tim Morgan, assistant sheriff of Pickens County

• Raising 'dirty' money for Wren High athletics Published 05/19/2012 at 11:15 p.m.

  Former state Rep. Dan Cooper helped raise more than $10,000 of “dirty” money Saturday for the Wren High School athletic program

• The tarnishing of Ron Wilson Published 05/19/2012 at 11:04 p.m.

  Deep Southern roots, ultra conservative politics and stark contradictions have been the defining characteristics of the Anderson County man accused of running a Ponzi scheme that swindled hundreds of investors out of millions

• Proto-tea partier Ron Wilson wrote about debt issues 20 years ago Published 05/19/2012 at 11 p.m.

  For at least four years, from 1989 to 1993, Ron Wilson was a columnist for "Citizen Informer," warning readers about governmental collapse in a fringe publication that circulated around the country

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