Month: August 2016

Airport, Brookland-Cayce to play in Kickoff Classic, Saturday

High School football season is getting closer, and that includes action for Brookland-Cayce and Airport High Schools of Lexington School District 2. Airport will play Lexington and Brookland-Cayce plays Blythewood in an upcoming jamboree. As a prelude to the season, the 2016 Aun and McKay Kickoff Classic jamboree is scheduled in Chapin, Saturday Aug. 13.  The […]

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Pedestrian killed in Gaston is identified by coroner

Amy Lands Rast, 38, of Swansea was struck by an SUV as she walked in the middle of the road.  Rast died at the scene from the injuries she sustained during the accident.  An autopsy was performed on Sunday and determined the cause of death to be blunt force trauma. The driver of the SUV was […]

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Pedestrian killed on Blackville Road in Lexington County

The S.C. Highway Patrol is reporting that a pedestrian was killed in a vehicle vs pedestrian accident Saturday night. Lance Cpl. Judd Jones of the SCHP said the driver of a 2011 Chevrolet SUV hit a killed a person walking in the road in an east direction. The SUV was also travelling east. The incident […]

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Lexington woman identified in one of two fatalities in I-20 crash

Lexington County Coroner Margaret Fisher has identified the two individuals who were killed in a three-vehicle accident at approximately 3:25 AM on Saturday, August 6, 2016, at I-20 near the 62 mile marker in Lexington, as Franchescha Hope Rogers-Martinez, age 27, of Lexington, and Jarrad Denard Blade, 32, of Decatur, Georgia. Ms. Rogers-Martinez was traveling alone […]

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Child safely returned to her mother

  The Cayce Department of Public Safety is pleased to report that the minor child, NERIAH JACKSON, has been safely returned to her mother and TRAVIS JACKSON is in custody.   At approximately 4 p.m., Mr. Jackson returned the child to her mother at a neutral location in the city limits of West Columbia.  Cayce […]

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3 killed on I-20 Saturday, 2 in Lexington County

A passenger in the Nissan was seriously injured and taken to the hospital. A third car, a 2008 Nissan, hit the 2015 Nissan. The driver of the 2008 Nissan sustained minor injuries. The accident happened at approximately 3:36 a.m., according to Jones. The accident resulted in the interstate being blocked for about 6.5 hours. At […]

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Cayce Public Safety look for missing child

The Cayce Department of Public Safety is asking for the public’s assistance in locating TRAVIS JACKSON and his missing child.  The child, NERIAH POLLOCK, was taken from her home in Cayce by Jackson, who is her non-custodial father, at approximately 11 p.m.  on Friday. Mr. Jackson is a black male, 31 years of age, standing […]

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Cayce Public Safety part of 18-pound marijuana bust

In the early morning hours of Wednesday, the Cayce Department of Public Safety (CPS) seized approximately 18 pounds of marijuana, 2 vehicles and over 36,000 cash. The case was being worked with agents of the US Postal Inspection Service and the US Postal Service Office of Inspector General, along with CPS. Those agencies were investigating  mail […]

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