Former Laney star Corvey Irvin, former Thomson star Jasper Brinkley and former Lincoln Co. star Jarius Wynn were selected Sunday on the second day of the 2009 NFL Draft.

Nineteen former Gamecock football players, including Thomson’s Jasper Brinkley and former Glenn Hills star Jonathan Williams,  worked out for the NFL scouts on Wednesday, as the annual Pro Timing Day was held on the University of South Carolina campus in Columbia.

Thursday’s high school basketball scores as reported to the WJBF Sports department.

After hours of searching by ground and air the perimeter around Old Washington Road has been dismantled. Officers with the McDuffie County Sheriffs Office, the Thomson Police Department, the Columbia County Sheriffs Office, the Warren County Sheriffs Office and the Georgia State Patrol spent Tuesday night into earily Wednesday morning searching for at least 2 burglary suspects.

Lee Hutto has been named the new head football coach and athletic director at Washington-Wilkes High School, leaving Warren County after three seasons.

Wednesday, February 4th is National Signing Day for high school football players to sign letters of intent to play college football for their chosen school.  Here is the complete list of CSRA signees as reported to the WJBF Sports department.

A shooting in Thomson sent two people to the hospital Monday night. It happened just after 11 p.m. at Lot 9 on Boulevard Drive. Witness say there was a party going on in the mobile home at the time.

An accident involving a school bus in Thomson sent one person to the hospital, Monday morning.

Former Thomson star Jasper Brinkley returns to form with South Carolina.

The odd thing about the gas shortage is how spotty it is. Many places have plenty of gas…without the lines. Right next door, in McDuffie County, WJBF-TV News Channel 6’s Barclay Bishop shows us how true this is.