''The Gaffney Ledger'' is a tri-weekly

newspaper A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports a ...

Gaffney, South Carolina Gaffney is a city in and the seat of Cherokee County, South Carolina, United States, in the Upstate region of South Carolina. Gaffney is known as the "Peach Capital of South Carolina". The population was 12,539 at the 2010 census, with an estim ...

. It was founded in 1896 under the name ''The Ledger'', and assumed its current name in 1907. The paper has been owned and published by the Sossamon family for five generations.

Lee Roy Martin Lee Roy Martin (April 25, 1937 — May 31, 1972), known as The Gaffney Strangler, was an American serial killer from Gaffney, South Carolina. He murdered 4 people, 2 women and 2 girls between 1967 and 1968. Background When the killings began in ...

- the "Gaffney Strangler" - first claimed credit for his victims in a phone call to the paper's then managing editor Bill Gibbons in February 1968. In 1999 the former chief of police of

Blacksburg, South Carolina Blacksburg is a small town in Cherokee County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 1,848 at the 2010 census. The communities of Cherokee Falls, Kings Creek, Cashion Crossroads, Buffalo, and Mount Paran are located near the town. Bl ...

successfully sued the ''Gaffney Ledger'' for

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after it ran an anonymous

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from a reader which implied he had been bribed by drug dealers.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gaffney Ledger, The 1896 establishments in South Carolina Newspapers published in South Carolina Gaffney, South Carolina