Springdale Police made a drug arrest Saturday afternoon.   On Saturday at approximately 4:30 in the afternoon a Springdale officer stopped a car for failing to stop at a stop sign on Pond Drive at Platt Springs Rd. After stopping the vehicle the officer observed behavior that was thought to be suspicious. the officer called for […]

Moffatt Street side of West Columbia Riverwalk closed due to flooding The Moffatt Street side of the West Columbia Riverwalk is currently closed due to flooding. Once the flood waters subside and the Riverwalk path is clear again, the city will announce when all areas of the West Columbia Riverwalk are open to the public. Anna […]

Cayce Department of Public Safety Officer L. Feliciano was off-duty, but that does not mean he would not respond to an emergency. Feliciano, a master public safety officer, saved a woman’s life from a burning mobile home, Friday afternoon,” according to Sgt. Evan Antley of the Cayce DPS. Feliciano saw the mobile home at 116 […]

Lexington County Coroner Margaret Fisher has identified the person who was killed in the early Friday morning two-car accident on Hwy 321 in Cayce. Valerie D. Rhodes, 44, of Gaston was traveling north in the 3200 block of Charleston Highway at approximately 4:40 a.m. on Friday, when another vehicle that was traveling south in the […]

Miss South Carolina made a stop in West Columbia, Friday where she offered some advice to young people. “Make decisions that get you where you want to be,” said Daja Dial. She spoke to eighth-graders at Northside Middle School. Dial is from Spartanburg and she is a Clemson University student, taking the year off from […]

Dr. Carolyn Fisher-Mercer and Dr. Barbara Nickel were the 2015 inductees into the Brookland-Cayce High School Education Foundation Educator Hall of Fame, Thursday. Fisher-Mercer said she was grateful to be able to help her students become the people they were meant to be. Nickel, a special education teacher, expressed her thanks that she and her […]

Carlos Jovany Hernandez, of West Columbia Columbia, has been charged with sexual assault. The charge comes  after a University of South Carolina student told police that she was raped near the USC campus early Saturday morning. Hernandez, 21, was charged with first-degree criminal sexual conduct. He turned himself in, Wednesday morning, according to  Columbia Police Chief […]