A recent Travel Industry Association report shows tourism reduces each Florence County household's state and local taxes by about $945 a year, according to the Florence Convention and Visitors Bureau.

A funeral service for George W. Jordan, Jr., husband of Barbara Carter Jordan, will be at 11:00 a.m. Wednesday, August 20, 2008, in Evergreen Baptist Church, with Rev.

Investigators searching for clues after a man's body was found at the corner of Cashua Drive and Second Loop Road in Florence on Monday night, Florence County Sheriff Kenney Boone said.