Month: February 2018

Gov. Henry McMaster holds press conference, 2 dead, 116 to hospital in Cayce train wreck

The train collision in Cayce resulted in the deaths of two Amtrak employees, according to Gov. Henry McMaster who held a crash update press conference Sunday morning at the SC Emergency Management Department headquarters in West Columbia. He was joined by State Sen. Nikki Setzler of West Columbia, and Lexington County Council Chairwoman Debbie Summers. […]

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2 dead, 50-plus injured in train collision, derailment in Lexington County

Lexington County emergency officials are on the scene of train collision and derailment near Charleston Highway and Pine Ridge Road. Lexington County reported the incident around 5 a.m. Saturday morning. No more details were available, but more information is coming according to Lexington County officials.  Lexington County photo.  Follow up- At least two people were […]

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West Columbia man dies in construction accident

A man is dead after he fell while doing construction work on a building in the Lugoff area of Kershaw County, Friday. West Columbia man dies in fall in Kershaw County Larry Durney, 45, of West Columbia is the man identified by Kershaw County Coroner David West as the victim of the accident. “He had his […]

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Carolina Water Service transfers ownership of I-20 plant to Town of Lexington

Carolina Water Service, Inc., officially transferred ownership of its I-20 wastewater treatment plant, Thursday at 8:30 a.m. to the Town of Lexington. As previously agreed, CWS officials handed over the keys to Town officials this morning. From this point forward, CWS sewer customers served by the treatment facility are now customers of the Town of […]

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Cal Dent of Lexington found liable in $51 million health care fraud case

Floyd Calhoun “Cal” Dent, III, of Lexington, and two co-conspirators have been found liable for defrauding the federal healthcare programs Medicare and Tricare of over $51 million. The United States Attorney’s Office announced the verdict Thursday. The verdict was unanimous and it was handed down Wednesday by a federal jury in Charleston.  The United States […]

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Springdale Elementary wins 4th Grade Math Super Bowl

By Dawn Kujawa- Lexington 2 School District Audiences love a competitive Super Bowl. That certainly was the case Thursday, when three Lexington Two schools — Springdale Elementary, Cayce Elementary and Pineview Elementary — met for the finals of the 4th Grade Math Super Bowl. When the scores were tallied, the mathletes from Springdale were announced […]

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Tickets for the Gervais Street Bridge Dinner are on-sale until Sunday

Gervais Street Bridge Dinner tickets are on-sale in limited quantity, from now-until- Sunday, February 4 at 11:59 pm. General Admission tickets ($99 each) + VIP tickets ($199 each) = 200 tickets total. Visit GervaisStreetBridgeDinner.com because tickets are going uber fast and you won’t want to miss this! (Realistically it doesn’t look like tickets will last til Sunday…) […]

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S.C. Treasurer breaks record for returning unclaimed property

South Carolina Treasurer Curtis Loftis has announced that almost $33 million in unclaimed property was returned to its owners in 2017. Loftis praised the work of the Unclaimed Property Program for helping to identify people who have unclaimed money throughout the state. According to a Treasurer’s Office press release, the annual amount of returned money […]

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