Columbia News

Fire officials say a blaze has burned the prosecutor's office in Lancaster, where the courthouse burned earlier this week.

Agents with South Carolina Law Enforcement Division have arrested a 26-year-old man they say solicited what he believed to be a 12-year-old girl online.

Columbia firefighters briefly shut down the 2100 block of Chestnut Street Wednesday morning to put out a blaze in a boxcar.

Richland County sheriff's deputies are looking for a man accidentally released from the county jail in Columbia.

Federal prosecutors say motions filed by three Columbia men accused of scamming thousands out of $80 million make no sense.

Columbia officials want to send a message to some city landlords: You can run, but you can't hide - at least not anymore.

Smoking could be snuffed out in restaurants, bars, stores and most offices in Lexington by early October.

Officers with the City of Columbia Police Department say they have determined that a 42-year-old woman stole credit and debit cards from three victims' purses, and used them later at automated teller machines.

Richland County authorities say a man and woman have been killed after a sports utility vehicle hit a train near Blythewood.

Remote sensors will be installed on bridges on two main South Carolina highways allowing highway officials in Columbia to monitor their condition.

Columbia police are still investigating an incident at the Woodland Terrace apartment complex where they say a man who broke into an apartment was stabbed multiple times.

Richland County deputies are looking to the public for help in a three-year-old murder case.

The 2008 Out of the Darkness Community Walk to prevent suicide is Oct. 19 at Columbia's Riverfront Park.

Three Columbia-area men accused of scamming thousands of people out of $80 million want their federal charges dismissed because they say prosecutors don't have jurisdiction over their case.

Richland County deputies are investigating a stabbing that occurred early Saturday morning in southeast Columbia.

Columbia police say they have determined that a man they said was a suspect in a bank robbery on Garners Ferry Road was not involved.

Officers with the City of Columbia Police Department are investigating a dead body they found in a creek near Blossom and Pickens Streets in Columbia.

Thursday, July 31, 2008 at 10:02 a.m. A fire is out at a Columbia factory on South Beltline Boulevard.

A Lexington couple planned to find out Friday just how big. Frank and Tina Finders plan to weigh their big pumpkin they grew at her grandmother's apartment in Arcadia Lakes on scales at the State Farmers ...

The last of three men wanted in connection with a 1999 cold-case robbery and homicide was arrested Thursday in Columbia, authorities said.