Three Confederate flags were taken from the Jefferson Davis Highway monument on U.S. 1 in the Oak Grove area of Lexington County. Lexington County sheriff’s deputies are looking for the vandals who took the flags. Sheriff’s deputies received an anonymous tip letting them know the flags were missing flags, said Lexington County Sheriff’s Department spokesman Adam […]

Release from the S.C. Department of Public Safety The South Carolina Department of Public Safety is reporting that there were five arrests during the rallies on the Statehouse grounds today in Columbia. There was a heavy law enforcement presence — on and around — the perimeter of Statehouse grounds throughout the day. SCDPS estimates the […]

A hot summer, with not enough rain, have placed Lexington County into incipient drought status. Incipient means the county is in the initial stage of drought. Lexington County, and the rest of the state, received an upgraded drought status from the South Carolina Drought Response Committee after it met last week. The drought status was […]

Airport High School was honored by Friday for being local heroes in the fight against childhood cancer. The ceremony to honor the students took place at Palmetto Health Children’s Hospital. Aflac presented a Duckprints Award to Airport High School, which raises money each year for childhood cancer. CAMP KEMO co-founder Linda Wells was also honored. […]

Gamecocks picked to finish fourth in SEC-East Last year, South Carolina was picked to win it all in the East. In 2015, not so much. At the conclusion of SEC Media Days in Hoover, Ala. The Gamecocks, after a 7-6 season and 3-5 in the SEC in 2014, were voted behind Georgia, Tennessee and Missouri, […]

More homes are being built in West Columbia. Residential units, many single-family, are being added, after some lean years for building. In the last month or so, about 30 acres of property, containing with more than 100 homes, have been annexed into the City of West Columbia. Two single-family-home developments, Oakwood and Harvest Glen, are […]

Members of the Technology Student Association (TSA) of Airport High and Fulmer Middle Schools represented Lexington School District Two well at the annual  National TSA Conference in Dallas, Texas June 28-July 2. Mrs. Terri Southern, math teacher and sponsor of Airport’s TSA, accompanied the TSA students to Dallas. At the conference, Mrs. Southern was named the 2015 […]