NEWS

Upperscale restaurant announces plans for West Columbia

A restaurant with a “stunning view” is coming to West Columbia. A partner in Columbia’s Bourbon Whiskey Bar and Creole Kitchen is planning to open an upperscale steak restaurant in the Brookland development in West Columbia.  The new venture will also offer seafood. The restaurant is scheduled to open in the latter part of 2017, […]

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Juveniles say man dressed clown approached them, with bear suit passenger

From the Lexington Police Department: INVESTIGATION OF SUSPICIOUS PERSONS – A REMINDER TO STAY AWARE Officers of the Lexington Police Department responded to a report of suspicious persons in a vehicle at an apartment complex which caused concern to residents. At approximately 6 p.m. Monday, officers were dispatched to the Park North Apartments, which are […]

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Man dressed as clown approaches Lexington kids, report says

From the Lexington Police Department: INVESTIGATION OF SUSPICIOUS PERSONS – A REMINDER TO STAY AWARE Officers of the Lexington Police Department responded to a report of suspicious persons in a vehicle at an apartment complex which caused concern to residents. At approximately 6 p.m. Monday, officers were dispatched to the Park North Apartments, which are […]

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Teen River Bluff football player who died, had a heart condition

Lexington County Coroner Margaret Fisher released the cause of death for Lewis N. Simpkins. Lewis is the 14-year-old River Bluff football player who collapsed on the field during practice on Aug. 10, and later died at Lexington Medical Center. Autopsy results show a multifactorial cause of death. Simpkins died as a result of complications of a […]

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It’s Labor Day, many government offices closed

It’s Labor Day and local government offices are closed. Including: City of West Columbia offices City of Cayce offices Town of Springdale offices Lexington County offices Town of Lexington offices Town of Irmo offices Batesburg-Leesville offices State and federal officers are closed, too

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Need help identifying students from 1940 BCHS photo

This is a photo from the collection of Bill Mooneyhan. It is a group of students in front of Brookland-Cayce High School. Three of the students have a patch on their sweaters with the year 1940. Can you identify any of the students? Click on photo to enlarge it

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Cayce Public Safety seeks help to ID suspect in theft

The Cayce Department of Public Safety would like your help to identify the subject pictured. On Aug.  15,  at 3:34 p.m. he entered the Jewelry Warehouse located at 200 Knox Abbott Dr. in Cayce. While inside the subject distracted the sales clerk and took a gold chain and a diamond bracelet. The chain is described as […]

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Fatal accident on Highway 302 early Sunday morning

The driver of the Dodge pickup – traveling west- crossed the centerline and hit the cab of a tractor trailer truck travelling east. The driver of the Dodge pickup was killed. A GMC Yukon was behind the tractor-trailer cab and collided with it, according to Corporal Sonny Collins of the SC Highway Patrol. Highway 302 […]

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