Calhoun County News

COLUMBIA a ' Alshon Jeffery is one step closer to making it to South Carolina's campus on time, but the wide receiver from Calhoun County still has work to do.

The South Carolina Supreme Court on Monday upheld a death sentence for a Virginia man who pleaded guilty to killing an off-duty police officer and setting his body on fire.

Authorities say a Columbia man has been killed after a drug deal turned into a shootout.

Six men have been charged in connection with Sunday's drug-related shooting death of a Columbia man, the Calhoun County Sheriff's Office said Wednesday.

Officials in Calhoun County say a man was murdered at the corner of Pine Planes Road and Mack Street.

Officials in Calhoun County say a man was murdered at the corner of Pine Planes Road and Mack Street.

A 22-year-old Columbia man was shot to death early Sunday morning in the Gaston community just over the boundary line in Calhoun County.

One man is dead after he was shot in what Sheriff Thomas Summers calls a "drug deal gone bad." 22-year-old Christopher Donell Robinson of Columbia was shot and killed in the parking lot of the American Legion Post in Gaston early Sunday morning.

In a century of living, Donella B. Wilson has traversed the cultural and psychic landscape of South Carolina, moving from a poor plantation childhood to an urban life marked by professional and personal achievements.

The man charged with the murder of his Calhoun County girlfriend is now also charged with the shooting of a West Columbia teen found lying mortally wounded the same day on Charleston Highway.

ST. MATTHEWS -- Authorities say they have charged the live-in boyfriend of a 37-year-old woman with murder after her body was found on the side of a road near Interstate 26.

Calhoun County and Lexington County deputies are trying to determine if two bodies found within 10 miles of each other near Interstate 26 about 90 minutes apart are linked.

Updated 10:30 a.m. Two bodies discovered on roadsides this morning in Lexington and Calhoun counties, one with an apparent gunshot wound, are likely homicides and are being investigated to see if they are linked, officials said.

A boil water advisory has been issued in parts of Saint Matthews due to a water line break.

A carjacker who lurked in the Midtown at Forest Acres mall parking garage and heisted three cars from vulnerable women has been arrested in Orangeburg, Forest Acres police chief Gene Sealy said Thursday.

Police in South Carolina today captured a Calhoun County Jail inmate man who escaped two weeks ago from a drug rehab program and allegedly robbed a downtown credit union.

William Gerald Inabinet, 708 Providence Road, 67, died Thursday at his residence.

A 13-year-old Kershaw County boy charged with murder in the shooting death of his 10-year-old brother last month won't be tried as an adult, prosecutors said Friday.

A federal judge in Columbia sentenced a former Georgia man Monday to nine years in prison and ordered him to pay back about $6 million authorities say he defrauded from U.S. and Canadian printers.

York County is home to two of the 20 worst bridges in the state, according to a recent report by AAA Carolinas.