Eastover News

The Air Force is seeking public comment about the service's plan to base its newest F-35 jet fighter at two bases in South Carolina.

The hours of operation for the Richland County Recreation Commission's 13 recreational centers will change at the start of 2010, with most opening slightly earlier and closing slightly earlier on weekdays and Saturdays.

The Richland County Sheriff's Department will conduct driver safety checkpoints on New Year's Eve.

Making a slight alteration in the wording of its hospitality tax ordinance is giving Richland County Council a tad more breathing room when it comes to allocating H-tax money to tourism-targeted groups.

The Sumter Police Department's Financial Crimes Unit uncovered a counterfeit check scheme recently and arrested five people, while 13 people are still being sought on various charges.

The Richland County Public Library has received a grant from the Knight Foundation to expand computer and Internet access.

Friday, December 04, 2009 at 8:14 p.m. Read more: Local , State , Richland County , Sewer , Treatment , Plant , Failure , Eastover Eastover, SC -The Richland County Utilities DivisionA saysA the countya s Lower Richland Sewer Treatment Plant failed Friday morning.A That facility is located about five milesA southeast ofA Eastover.

Thousands of tree farms are open for business this year, including The Congaree Run Tree Farm in Eastover.

A helicopter unit from the S.C. National Guard returned home Thursday to hugs, cheers and backslaps after a historic, yearlong mission to Afghanistan.

A helicopter unit from the S.C. National Guard returned home Thursday to hugs, cheers and backslaps after a historic, yearlong mission to Afghanistan.

Landing the Air Force's next-generation fighter - the F-35- likely will guarantee a long future for two Midlands bases and ensure thousands of jobs will stay in the area, military supporters say.

A man has been cleared in the 2004 shooting death of an off-duty South Carolina sheriff's deputy.

A man has been cleared in the 2004 shooting death of an off-duty South Carolina sheriff's deputy.

A Richland County man who shot and killed a man in a 2004 incident involving cats has been found not guilty of murder in a second trial.

Thoughts of returning home to loved ones and Saturdays filled with college football are on the minds of some of the 60 S.C. National Guard soldiers serving in an Army helicopter unit in Afghanistan.

Every day, thousands of Afghan men and hundreds of trucks and cars stop at the gates of this sprawling base in northeastern Afghanistan.

The retrial for a man convicted of killing an off-duty Beaufort County sheriff's deputy in 2004 during a disagreement over a dead cat is scheduled to begin today in Columbia.

A 40-year-old Orangeburg man died after being thrown from a dump truck that overturned Monday morning near Eastover.

Monday, October 12, 2009 at 9:52 p.m. An accident happened just before noon in Eastover on Monday.A One person is dead, another hurt.A Lance Corporal Josef Robinson says a garage truck flipped over on Watermelon Hill Road in Eastover.A That's about 20 miles outside Columbia.A Neighbors say the terrible scene turned a normally quiet area upside ...

Monday, October 12, 2009 at 12:28 p.m. According to officials, EMS is on the scene of a collision at Old Eastover and Watermelon Hill Rd.