Elgin News

Although Sumter County passed its $34-a-year fee for solid waste almost five months ago, residents came out in droves to the County Council meeting Tuesday.

LEXINGTON COUNTY SHERIFF JAMES R. METTS swore in eight reserve deputies on Oct. 22. There are now 30 reserve deputies who volunteer their time to work with full-time deputies at the Sheriff's Department.

Authorities say Fujifilm plans to expand its South Carolina operations, creating up to 20 job.

A family member found two people dead in an Elgin home Friday evening, and now sheriff's deputies are investigating.

Officials at a South Carolina jail are trying to determine if proper procedures were followed after a second inmate has been found hanged in less than a week.

Officials at a South Carolina jail are trying to determine if proper procedures were followed after a second inmate has been found hanged in less than a week.

In a meeting Tuesday the Richland Two School District's Board of Trustees approved the new elementary school attendance area changes for the 2010/2011 school year.

Frances McClary was not fazed by the raindrops as she awaited Wednesday's opening of the South Carolina State Fair.

A Midlands newspaper is reporting that Orangeburg deputies are investigating whether a 61-year-old special education teacher at Edisto High School abused two students.

Sharon Walden has joined Derrick Stubbs & Stith LLP as health care consulting manager.

A college prank blew up in four students' faces Wednesday, leading to a cordoned-off campus that made national news.

EMILY MICKLE of Columbia, president of the S.C. Ladies Auxiliary to the VFW, led the Palmetto State's delegation at the group's 96th national convention Aug.

Tuesday, September 08, 2009 at 4:52 p.m. School spokesperson MaryAnn Bryd tells Wach Fox News there's been a bus accident involvingA 12 kids and 2 adults around 4:00 today.

"Cleve Gray: Man and Nature," the Columbia Museum of Art's exhibition that features Gray's abstract expressionist works of broad strokes and color, has gotten a lot of attention from artists.

CSM James Stell Daniel, U.S. Army , marched victoriously from the battlefield of this life to his Heavenly home above to live eternally with his Lord and Savior on Monday, August 17, 2009.

Although her proposal for a new Kershaw County branch library at or near Elgin was nixed earlier this year, county library director Amy Schofield isn't giving up.

Funeral service for Robert Walter Rose, 83, will be held Friday at 11:00 a.m. at Highway Pentecostal Holiness Church with burial to follow in the church cemetery.

Helen Marie Smith, 83, of Elgin, died August 6, 2009. Born in Glens Falls, N.Y., she was the daughter of the late Frederick and Eva Reynolds Schaff.

Helen Marie Smith, 83, of Elgin, died August 6, 2009. Born in Glens Falls, N.Y., she was the daughter of the late Frederick and Eva Reynolds Schaff.

Chris Moore / The Item Texting and talking on cell phones are some of the many distractions teenage drivers face today.