Lexington County News

A 19-year-old Irmo man is under arrest after officials say he had sex with a 15-year-old girl at his home.

A Lexington County accident claimed the lives of two children Monday morning on Bethany Church Road.

Four preliminary winners were announced Tuesday at the Miss South Carolina and Miss South Carolina Teen Pageant at Spartanburg Memorial Auditorium.

A young black bear was spotted in the Old Cherokee Road area near Lexington about 9 a.m. Tuesday but disappeared by the time S.C. Department of Natural Resources Department biologists arrived within the hour.

Chapin Baptist Church is wrapping their arms around a couple at their church who lost their only two children in a car accident.

A black bear has been spotted near businesses near the town of Lexington. The sighting took place in the 400 block of Old Cherokee Road.

When Andre Bauer was a teenager, he would scavenge golf courses with his sister for stray golf balls, only to clean and repackage them in egg cartons to sell in the parking lot.

A Lexington County accident claimed the lives of two children Monday morning. According to the South Carolina Highway Patrol, the accident happened on Bethany Church Road near Highway 6. The accident happened around 8:45 Monday morning and involved three cars and a motorcycle.

Investigators don't know how it happened, but say a fire wiped out a mobile home Saturday morning.

Work is under way on a $25 million, 465,000-square-foot regional distribution center for Home Depot in Lexington County.

A Columbia teenager was arrested in connection with an armed robbery Wednesday at a motel near West Columbia, where the suspect had stayed for two days before the robbery, Lexington County Sheriff James Metts said.

Lexington County Council snuffed out a workplace smoking ban Tuesday, but both sides agree the decision may be temporary.

LEXINGTON, S.C. a ' A former youth minister at a South Carolina church is facing more accusations of sex crimes involving teen boys.

Lexington County Sheriffa s Department officials have arrested a 61-year-old Batesburg-Leesville man who owes more than $34,000 in child support.

The Lexington County Sheriff's Department says they've made an arrest in an attack that happened near Old Dunbar Road overnight.

Lexington County deputies say a fight between family members led to a killing. Calvin Corbett, 56, has been charged with murder and use of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime.

Authorities will try to determine what caused a fire at a large chicken barn at 3127 Calks Ferry Road in Lexington County.

A former youth minister at a South Carolina church has been arrested and charged with sex crimes.

A Lexington County judge has sentenced a child killer to death for a second time.

A Lexington County man has been arrested and charged with stabbing a woman. Nelson Colon, 30, now is facing a charge of assault and battery with intent to kill.