Eastover News

The Air Force on Friday announced plans to increase the payroll at Shaw Air Force Base in Sumter by more than 110 airmen and temporarily add five C-17 transport planes at Charleston Air Force Base.

The S.C. Attorney General's Office has taken over prosecution of another high-profile, alleged horse abuse case in Richland County.

How does this sound? A box packed with fruits and vegetables, just picked at a farm less than an hour away, is delivered each week to your neighborhood, ready for you to take home.

Each Monday, The State runs information on a suspect wanted by authorities. Since the feature began in February 2004, 99 suspects have been taken into police custody.

The South Carolina National Guard responded to the Horry County wildfire in North Myrtle Beach yesterday, following a request from the Emergency Management Division to assist Forestry Service personnel.

RICHLAND County Councilman Norman Jackson is unapologetic in his push to build a large new park in his Lower Richland district.

A man who left the scene of a single-vehicle crash Saturday near Eastover died the following day of his injuries, Richland County Coroner Gary Watts said.

A Celebration of Life service for Paul Alexander Kinney, 46, of Eastover will be held at noon Saturday, April 18, 2009, in Greenlawn Funeral Home Chapel.

Members of the Marine Corps' recently formed Special Operations Command are training this week at McEntire Joint National Guard Base near Eastover.

South Carolina's peach crop appears to have survived Wednesday morning's statewide freeze.

The Highway Patrol is looking for a dark colored car that fled the scene after hitting a pedestrian Friday night.

An Eastover man was taken to Palmetto Health Richland with injuries Friday night after he was struck by a car that left the scene, the S.C. Highway Patrol said.

Saturday, March 28, 2009 at 12:44 p.m. March 27, 2009, A hit and run incident happened On Gardnera s Ferry Road 20 miles East of Columbia.

Four sleek, needle-nosed jet fighters with "South Carolina" painted on their tails streaked above the desert floor, cloaked by a moonless sky.

Richland County authorities say at approximately 9:30am Wednesday morning, deputies responded to McKenzie Street and Vanboklen Street in Eastover after a report that a man had been stabbed.

Richland County deputies are searching for a woman who they say stabbed her cousin because he didn't return her romantic feelings.

Approximately 9:30 today deputies responded to McKenzie Street vanboklen Street in Eastover of a report that a man had been stabbed.

A man convicted of killing an off-duty Beaufort County Sheriff's deputy in 2004 during a disagreement over a dead cat will get a new trial this summer.

Services for Herman William Watson, Sr., 86, will be held at 3:00 p.m. Sunday, March 8, 2009, at Asbury Memorial United Methodist Church.

Members of Richland County Council are being pulled into a tussle between colleagues over which community groups in Lower Richland should benefit from a $1 million windfall.