Cayce City Council will meet at 5 p.m. at the Cayce Tennis and Fitness Center, 1120 Fort Congaree Trail, Wednesday for its regular council meeting. Council’s agenda items are listed below. Proclamation A. Approval of Proclamation – Arbor Day A. Discussion and Approval of Ordinance 2015-13 Amending Article 7 (“Conditional Use and Special Exception Regulations”) […]

A Cayce Department of Public Safety News Release was issued by Sergeant Evan R. Antley at 5:35 p.m. Tuesday. On Tuesday, at approximately 1:45 AM two Officers with the Cayce Department of Public Safety were involved in a shooting incident near the 1900 block of Lorick St. The Lexington County Coroner reported that the 21 year old subject, […]

Cayce City Manager Rebecca Vance, reported there has been a sewer spill that resulted in more than 5,000 gallons of sewage flowing into the Congaree River. It happened on Tuesday, at approximately 3 p. m. The  location of the spill is off of State Street, near Martin Marietta and the Cayce Riverwalk. Utility crews were dispatched […]

County Coroner Margaret Fisher has released the identity of the suspect who was shot and killed during the early morning hours of Tuesday, in the 1900 block of Lorick Street in Cayce. Lexington County Coroner Margaret Fisher states that Demetrius Shelley Bryant, 21, of Columbia was fatally wounded in an officer-involved shooting incident in which two […]

The City of West Columbia could be facing a law suit of $300,000. Attorney Mark V. Gende told council at a meeting Monday that he has a law suit ready to file requesting compensation for a residence at 1020 Natchez Trail. The residence has been deemed unsafe because of groundwater runoff eroding the yard, up […]

A suspect was shot killed and a Cayce officer was shot and wounded early Tuesday morning. A man began firing at two Cayce Department of Public Safety officers. The incident occurred at about 1:30 a.m. on Lorick Street. The man who fired at the officers was being arrested on drug charges, according to Sergeant Evan R. […]

A Gaston woman pleaded guilty today to calling in a bomb threat last year to Lexington County’s Marc H. Westbrook Judicial Center.  Julie Ann Riddle-Gonzalez, 64, said she called in the threat in October 2014 to avoid going to court to face a fraudulent check charge. The building was evacuated and no bomb was found. […]

There was no dearth of talent Sunday night during the Rockin’ 4 Relief concert at Historic Columbia Speedway. Performers delivered one after the other. Benton Blount, of Greenville, is an America’s Got talent winner. He sung a deeply emotional version of Drift Away, first made popular by Dobie Gray in the 1970s. Blount also sung Can’t […]