The Upstate Workforce Investment Board and Spartanburg Community College are partnering to offer a manufacturing course they say manufacturing employers are looking for.

Three people are under arrest after deputies say they found a methamphetamine lab in Belton. James Mitchell Kimbrell, Ace Donovan Hembree and Brad Lee Walker are charged with manufacturing meth at a home on Acker Road.

Unemployment in the Palmetto state continues to climb to record highs with a rate of 12.1% for May reported Friday by the Employment Security Commission. That’s a seven-tenths of a point climb from the April unemployment rate of 11.4%.