Fairfield County News

It's a classroom without desks, walls or even a ceiling, and in one day, volunteers in Fairfield County built an outdoor classroom for McCrorey-Liston Elementary School students.

Two Lee County schools will soon have new leaders. District Superintendent Dr. Cleo Richardson announced Tuesday that interim principals will be in place soon at Lower Lee Elementary and Dennis Intermediate schools.

With H1N1 flu fears increasing across the country, South Carolinaa s Department of Health and Environmental Control has been proactive in its efforts to limit the flua s spread.

Three years after her daughter's body was found in a field, a Midlands mom is still no closer to knowing who killed her child.

A Fairfield County deputy has been dismissed after a Nov. 2 incident at her home in Ridgeway according to Sheriff Herman Young.

The Fairfield County School District has not yet decided if it will ask the Department of Health and Environmental Control for the H1N1 vaccine.

Questions continue to mount in Fairfield County about why the school board denied access to a group that gives accreditations to interview school and district officials.

The president of the Fairfield Central High School Parent Teacher Organization says Tuesday night's school board meeting was embarrassing.

Authorities say a man wanted for forcing his girlfriend at knife point to Winnsboro, South Carolina is in custody.

SLED, Fairfield County Sheriff's Office and Winnsboro Department of Public Safety located and arrested Bun Mann III, a man wanted on a variety of charges including sexual assault, assault and battery, and kidnapping in Fairfield and Richland Counties.

Richland County Deputies are looking for a man they say forced his girlfriend at knifepoint to Winnsboro after sexually assaulting her.

A poll conducted for gubernatorial candidate Jim Rex shows the Fairfield County resident leading his Democratic rivals.

The Fairfield County coroner says a 20-year-old Winnsboro man was murdered early Sunday morning.

BREAKING NEWS: Yates expected to resign Monday, sources say. Sources close to the department tell the Herald Independent that embattled police chief Wayne Yates will resign Monday in the wake of an early morning barroom brawl last week.

Two gubernatorial candidates, Rep. Nikki Haley and state Superintendent of Education Jim Rex underperformed their competitors this financial quarter.

Winnsboro Department of Public Safety Chief Wayne Yates was released on bond Thursday afternoon, facing charges of assault and battery stemming from an early-morning bar fight last weekend.

Authorities hold a warrant for Winnsboro Department of Public Safety Chief Wayne Yates, after they say he assaulted two people in a 3 a.m. bar fight over the weekend.

Officials from the Fairfield County Sheriff's Department say they have obtained an arrest warrant for Wayne Yates, the chief of the Winnsboro Department of Public Safety.

Sirens will sound across the county today but there is no need for alarm. SCE&G will conduct a test of its V.C. Summer Nuclear Station siren warning system today around 1 p.m. During the test, SCE&G will sound the 106 sirens located within a 10-mile radius of V.C. Summer Nuclear Station in Fairfield County near Jenkinsville.

A 29-year-old man from Rock Hill died Thursday when he crashed into an illegally-parked tractor trailer in Fairfield County, troopers say.