Swansea News

Friday, November 20, 2009 at 11:23 p.m. Read more: Local , State , Swansea , Lexington County , Tickets , City Limits , Swansea Police , Traffic Tickets There's a growing concern in Swansea some residents say the Swansea police are issusing tickets past the city limits.

Attorney General Henry McMaster announced on Friday that warrants have been issued for 36 people charged for their involvement in two cockfighting operations in Lexington and Williamsburg Counties .

A 26-year-old Swansea man is facing legal trouble after he was arrested on Tuesday during an internet predator sting by the City of Anderson Police Department.

A fundraiser to benefit Mikey Pound, the 3-year-old child of Barbara "Barbie" Morton, who died in a car wreck last month, will be held Saturday in Lexington County.

Authorities have arrested two more men and are looking for a third in connection with a shooting Wednesday in a Fairview community home.

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The Gamecocks haven't been fighting as hard as we'd like, but it seems that actual cockfigthing is alive and well in South Carolina.

The Lexington County Sheriff's Department has three men in custody charged in connection with what they say was a drug-related shooting on Wednesday near Pelion.

Twenty-one people were indicted Wednesday for their involvement in two cockfighting organizations in Lexington and Williamsburg Counties.

The challengers in the mayor's race in Swansea say the ballot Tuesday is a referendum on a debt of nearly $500,000 that town leaders are struggling to pay off.

The West Columbia Police Department is looking for a suspect in connection with the vandalism of vehicles in retail parking lots.

Funeral services for Bobby Gene Donahue, 71, of Swansea, will be held at 1 p.m. Wednesday, September 23, 2009, at the Chapel of Thompson Funeral Home of Lexington.

Three longtime Lexington County mayors face re-election challenges at the Nov. 3 ballot.

Gov. Mark Sanford visited Swansea High School on Monday to talk to students, teachers and organizers of a pilot program called Jobs for America's Graduates-South Carolina.

Gov. Mark Sanford visited Swansea High School on Monday to talk to students, teachers and organizers of a pilot program called Jobs for America's Graduates-South Carolina.

We received an email asking why Swansea High School did not broadcast President Barack Obama's address to students last week, but did allow Governor Mark Sanford to speak to students on Monday.

The crop of kindergartners and first- and second-graders starting classes today at Frances Mack Primary in Gaston will be the last there.

On Monday, Lexington County Firefighters were out in the heat, busy fighting multiple woods fires.

Robert Davis, still shaken by almost being killed by the huge cloud of poison mist from the ammonia facility across from his house, had one thing to say.

The Bluff Road location of the Farmers Market will not be up and running this time next year, and the vendors who run businesses out of the Bluff Road location are divided about where to go next.