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Savage Craft Ale Works holding Anniversary Party Saturday with 2 bands, a DJ, games, mechanical bull, face-painting, and special deals on food

Can you believe it? Savage Craft Ale Works opened 4 years ago at 430 Center Street in the River District of West Columbia. To mark the occasion, Savage Craft is holding a 4-Year Anniversary Party – 100 Years of History, 4 Years of Craft! It’s the 4th Birthday, and you’re invited to celebrate with Savage […]

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Lexington County Men Arrested on Child Sexual Abuse Material* Charges

South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson announced the arrest of Matthew Leonard Loveridge (age 20), of Cayce, S.C., and Christopher Paul Comer (age 28), of Pelion, S.C., on seven total charges connected to the sexual exploitation of minors. Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force investigators with the Lexington County Sheriff’s Department made the arrests […]

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17-year-old charged with armed robbery at Sunset Boulevard gas station, West Columbia

West Columbia Police officers responded to the Circle K gas station at 2600 Sunset Boulevard (near the I-26 off-ramp) at 8 p.m. on Wednesday. Officers were responding a report of a robbery. The officers were able to locate and detain the suspect, a 17-year-old Chester County resident. Following an investigation, the suspect was charged with […]

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Traffic rerouted in Cayce after crash on Knox-Abbott Drive, Wednesday evening

Cayce Police were asking drivers to please avoid the area around the Blossom Street Bridge, on Knox-Abbott Drive, near Guignard Park, Wednesday evening. There was a motor vehicle collision that occurred around 6 p.m. Traffic was being rerouted by emergency crews that responded to the crash. There were several emergency vehicles in the area.

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Longtime Brookland-Cayce High School teacher Beth Cleland to be inducted into Lexington 2 Educator Hall of Fame, Hon. Nikki Setzler to become a member of the Alumni Wall of Fame

The Brookland-Cayce High School Education Foundation will host the 23rd annual Brookland-Cayce High School Educator Hall of Fame and Alumni Wall of Honor Gala on Thursday, Feb. 6. This year, longtime Brookland-Cayce High School teacher Beth Cleland will be inducted into the Educator Hall of Fame, while the Honorable Nikki Setzler, the longest-serving senator in […]

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Lexington County man charged with kidnapping, stalking

Lexington County deputies have arrested a man accused of attacking a woman outside her home and stalking her at her job. Joey Miles Strickland, 41, is charged with first-degree assault and battery, kidnapping, and stalking, according to arrest warrants. “The sequence of events between Strickland and the woman started Jan. 14 at a gas station,” […]

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Lexington County teacher accused of assault: “hit yourself, not the teacher” she said, according to arrest warrant

A White Knoll High School teacher is accused of assaulting a student at the school. Fritzie Suerto Refamonte, 45, is charged with third-degree assault and battery, according to an arrest warrant. “When we became aware of this incident, we opened an investigation and determined Refamonte allegedly assaulted the student Jan. 14,” Lexington County Sheriff Jay […]

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Cayce Urgent Care serves almost 22,000 patients in its first year, USC College of Nursing open, says Lexington Medical Center’s Roger Sipe during C-WC Chamber Breakfast

Roger Sipe, senior VP of operations for Lexington Medical Center, addressed the Cayce-West Columbia Chamber Breakfast on the LMC – West Columbia campus, Tuesday. He provided an update on some LMC projects. Sipe said the new Cayce Urgent Care facility on Knox-Abbott Drive received 21,930 visits in its first year in operation. It opened on […]

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