West Columbia News

Ella Guidotti, 5, and Abby Lanier, 6, wave to those watching the parade as other Capital City Dance and Fitness dancers perform.

After consulting with the National Weather Service and the Cities of Cayce & West Columbia, the West Metro Parade Committee have decided to POSTPONE tomorrow's West Metro Holiday Parade of Lights to SUNDAY, DECEMBER 15th.

A South Carolina school cancelled its annual Christmas toy drive after receiving threats from the American Humanist Association.

There's no holiday for firefighters and rescue personnel at the West Columbia Fire Department.

Christmas parades abound, but the West Metro Holiday Parade of Lights is one of the most unique events of the Midlands.

WEST COLUMBIA, S.C. Three of the four candidates trying to defeat Lindsey Graham next year in the Republican primary in South Carolina gathered in the same place Tuesday to talk to GOP stalwarts as they try to differentiate themselves from the U.S. senator seeking a third term.

Lexington County Sheriff's Department narcotics investigators and the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division seized 20 illegal video gambling devices on Wednesday from a mobile home on Greenwood Drive near West Columbia.

Ruby Reese Benjamin, 89, resident of Lake Greenwood, widow of James Dodd Benjamin, died November 27, 2013 at Hospice House.

He ran as a write-in candidate – a tactic rarely successful – in a campaign that went so well that he garnered nearly as many votes as four challengers combined at the Nov. 5 ballot.

A South Carolina man has pleaded not guilty to charges in connection with a crash that killed an on-duty Pontiac police officer last month.

The Daily Leader in Pontiac reports 33-year-old Jason C. Collins of West Columbia, S.C., entered the plea Monday in Livingston County court.

Enjoy fun, food and fellowship; bring a dessert or fresh fruit to share. No charge for the luncheon; registration deadline is Sunday.

A 16-inch water main broke around 1 a.m. Monday at the water plant near Old Dunbar Road and U.S. 321, Cayce police spokesman Lt.

UPDATED 12:00PM The Cayce City Manager Rebecca Vance reports that the water main break happened at a fire hydrant at around 1AM Monday morning.

Drop in or stay an hour. Abiding Peace Lutheran Church, 401 Batesville Road, Simpsonville at the corner of Roper Mountain and Batesville roads, will have services on Sundays at 9:30 am, and Monday evenings at 7:00 pm.

A school in South Carolina has been forced to cancel its annual toy collection drive for the charity Operation Christmas Child by atheists who claim that the event is "religious" and therefore should not be allowed.

Scottsdale, Ariz., Nov 21, 2013 / 12:06 am .- After two public schools ended their affiliation with an evangelical-run Christmas toy drive for impoverished children, a lawyer with a group that supports religious liberty said such affiliation is in fact constitutional.

The Babcock Center Foundation's "Ornament of Opportunity" was revealed at a news conference at the Columbia Museum of Art.

I know this not because the community changes suddenly from urban to rural as I turn off the main road onto the subdivision road on which my home is located.

The scholarship, from the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation, was presented to Brenden Roberts on Nov. 14 at halftime during the Clemson-Georgia Tech game by American space shuttle astronaut Frank Culbertson.