Lexington County News

Home Depot plans to add a big depot in central South Carolina that will employ up to 300 workers.

Lexington County Planning Commission member Michael Shealy faces a charge of leaving the scene of a vehicle accident.

A Lexington County sheriff's deputy has shot and wounded a West Columbia man after he drove into the officer during a traffic stop.

The suspect has been brought back in connection with a 2006 case. A man arrested in Mississippi has been returned to South Carolina to face charges that he inappropriately touched a 9-year-old girl at a home ...

Wednesday, July 16, 2008 at 5:56 p.m. A fire early Wednesday morning has left nine people homeless.

A larceny charge against a Lexington County magistrate has been dropped. Prosecutors told The State newspaper of Columbia they did not have enough evidence to try the case against Oak Grove Magistrate Jamie T. ...

Lexington County Deputy Coroner Randy Martin says officials have found a body at the Park Place Village apartments in West Columbia.

There was a fire at a small retirement home near Little Mountain Wednesday morning in Lexington County.

The South Carolina Supreme Court has reversed the murder conviction of a Pelion man accused of killing his girlfriend in Lexington County and hiding her body in Alabama.

The body of a boater missing for more than two weeks was found Sunday in Lake Murray near where his wife's body was discovered last week.

LEXINGTON -- The Lexington County coroner says a body found on Lake Murray may be that of a woman missing since June 28.

An autopsy on a Red Bank woman whose body was found Wednesday in Lake Murray showed that she drowned accidentally, Lexington County Coroner Harry Harman said this afternoon.

Fugitives who turn themselves in at a Columbia church this week can talk to an attorney, see a judge and even get job counseling without having to spend time behind bars.

Officials say a woman whose 4-year-old granddaughter accidentally shot herself with her grandmother's gun at a Columbia store last month will not be charged in the case.

A stolen truck is removed from a crime scene on Sherwood Dr. in Lexington. Richland County Sheriff investigators got a tip that a suspect in the stolen car was at a Lexington County residence on Thursday.

A small fire at the Wal-Mart in Red Bank caused $75,000 worth of damage. The Lexington County Fire Service said around 8:32pm, the wiring from the computer that controls the cash registers and phone lines ...

Thursday, July 03, 2008 at 2:59 p.m. The Richland County Sheriff's Department is reporting it's investigators were involved in a shooting off exit 51 I-20 in Lexington county.

Two Richland County deputies were involved in a shooting Thursday afternoon. It happened in Lexington County on Sherwood Road.

The family of Standra Jones, a Dept. of Transportation worker who was killed on Interstate-26 in Lexington, attended a blood drive held by the Red Cross Wednesday afternoon.

A fatal accident in Pelion is being investigated by the Lexington County Coroner's Office and South Carolina Highway Patrol.