Fairfield County News

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.

A man found guilty of a kidnapping and assault in February of 2007 and sentenced to 25 years in prison was in the Chester County Courthouse again Monday in an attempt to get a new trial.

SCE&G has received an OK from state regulators to raise electric rates on average 1.1 percent starting at the end of the month.

Randy Burns / The Item Dr. Jeffery Long, new director of human resources and communications in the Lee County schools, looks over a file with assistant Willestine Simon.

All aboard! You're invited to travel back in time on a scenic train trip. The South Carolina Railroad Museum will offer train rides Oct.

Department of Natural Resources officers are looking to recover the body of a man who disappeared while swimming in a Fairfield County lake.

The Grand Strand, South Carolina's tourist economic engine, won't have enough electricity by 2012 to keep its beachfront towers aglow unless a new $1.2 billion coal-burning power station is built near Florence.

One person is dead after an accident in Fairfield County Thursday night. According to the South Carolina Highway Patrol, the accident happened on Highway 321 just south of Winnsboro.