NEWS

Heavy fire damages Babcock Building in Columbia

Multiple crews responded to a fire at the historic Babcock Building in the Bull Street area of Columbia, Saturday morning. Fire fighters were attacking the fire from the outside of the building. EMS was also on scene, according to the Columbia Fire Department. The first crews responded sometime after 6:30 a.m. There was heavy fire […]

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State House Rally to end COVID mandates, and open state, scheduled for Tuesday

Multiple SC Grassroots organizations representing hundreds of thousands of South Carolinians will be gathering at the SC Statehouse, Tuesday, said Pressley Stutts, chairman of United Patriots Alliance. The rally is to tell lawmakers that it is way past time to open up the State of SC fully by removing the governor’s authority to make additional […]

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Airport High’s Brycen Redmond is a semifinalist in the National Merit Scholarship program

From Dawn Kujawa – Lexington Two Communications Director  – An Airport High School student has been announced as a semifinalist in the National Merit Scholarship program, a prestigious recognition representing fewer than 1 percent of U.S. high school seniors nationwide. Brycen Redmond will have an opportunity to continue in the competition for some 7,600 National […]

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Brookland-Cayce’s Joseph Buchmaier a semifinalist in the National Merit Scholarship program

From Dawn Kujawa – Lexington Two Communications Director – A Brookland-Cayce High School student has been announced as a semifinalist in the National Merit Scholarship program, a prestigious recognition representing fewer than 1 percent of U.S. high school seniors nationwide. Joseph Buchmaier will have an opportunity to continue in the competition for some 7,600 National […]

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Lexington-Richland 5 school parents holding rally to open schools 5 days a week

Parents of Lexington-Richland School District 5 are holding a Parents March on Monday. The group said citizens of the community will rally at the school board to get children back in school five days a week, in-person. The rally will be at 5:30 p.m. at the District 5 Board meeting. The Board meeting is at […]

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Nephron is looking for nurses to help get SC back to normal

Nephron Pharmaceuticals is looking for nurses. Are you a retired nurse, school nurse or hospital nurse. Nephron – which is based in West Columbia, just outside of Cayce – is testing students for COVID-19 across the state in an effort to get South Carolina back to normal. The job offers a great team, great hours […]

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Lexington Sheriff’s deputies looking for West Columbia teen

The Lexington County Sheriff’s Department is looking for 16-year-old Bella Pierce. they want to bring her home, safe. Family members told deputies they last saw her July 20 when she left her West Columbia home about midnight. She has some family in Blythewood.Bella, whose full name is Evelyn Isabella Pierce, is 5’9” and she weighs […]

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Springdale Police to hold Faye Swetlik dedication ceremony, Sept. 22

The Springdale Police Department is holding a special dedication ceremony in the memory of Faye Marie Swetlik. It is at 7 p.m. on Sept. 22 at Benton Park, 2915 Platt Springs Rd. Little Faye, is the six-year-old Springdale Elementary School student who went missing from her Churchill Heights home in Cayce on the afternoon of […]

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