Elgin News

Ella Blankenship 'Granny' Huffstetler, 83, of Leesville, S.C., formerly of Black Mountain, died at the home of her daughter, Monday, July 6, 2009.

A visitation for Mark T. Jones , 43, will be held Tuesday evening from 5 until 9 p.m. at the residence, Villas at Spears Creek, 325 Spears Creek Church Road, Apt.

A Columbia man is dead after a car crash in Kershaw County, and police say the man responsible was driving drunk.

Troopers have charged a driver with Felony Driving Under the Influence after the passenger in his vehicle died at the scene of an accident Saturday morning.

BELTON -- Simpsonville's Jacob Behal, with past experience his guide, knows that being the top seed doesn't come with a guarantee.

Wednesday, June 10, 2009 at 10:07 p.m. Tuesday night a gunman put a Kershaw County community on lockdown.A Authorities say James Jackson was armed with a high-powered rifle and several handguns during a four hour standoff with police.A Everything happened Tuesday evening on Smyrna Road in Elgin.A Investigators say Jackson cut his girlfriend with a ...

The victim of an assault that led to a four-hour standoff talks to WIS News 10. Tuesday night at around 6:30pm a standoff started outside of Elgin in Kershaw County.

Deputies in Richland County arrested a 30-year-old man they say used a stolen debit or credit card.

A 16-year-old boy and a 35-year-old woman from Lugoff died in separate one-vehicle wrecks in Kershaw County over the weekend, authorities said Monday.

Two people from Lugoff-Elgin died over the weekend in two separate car accidents.

A woman is dead after crashing her car early Saturday morning. It happened just after midnight on Sessions Road about 2 miles north of the town of Elgin.

A man has been arrested and charged with sexually assaulting a three-year-old child in Kershaw County that he had been babysitting.

A 44-year-old Elgin man stands accused of forcing a 3-year-old to perform sex acts on him according to the Richland County Sheriff's Department.

Funeral services for John "Johnny" Robert Clements, Jr., 48, will be held Saturday, May 30, 2009 at 2:00 p.m. at Sawney's Creek Baptist Church with burial to follow in Old Sawney's Creek Baptist Church Cemetery.

When Lewis Marshall and his friend Lucky make their way through the halls of area assisted living facilities and hospitals, they're greeted with smiles, hugs and lots of well wishes.

A Kershaw County elementary school principal who promised to spend 24 hours on her school's roof if her 540 students read 25,000 books by the end of the year is living up to her promise today.

Officials with the Richland County Sheriffs Department say an escapes inmate may have been spotted on Saturday in Elgin.

Among meetings in the Camden and Elgin areas on Kershaw County School District's proposed 2009-10 budget: For district employees: * 3:30 p.m. today in the Lugoff-Elgin High auditorium * 3:30 p.m. April 27 in the Camden High auditorium For community members: * 6:30 tonight in the Blaney Elementary multipurpose room * 6:30 p.m. April 27 in the Camden ...

The Fayette County Attorneya TMs Office charged 32-year-old Charles Holmes and 33-year-old Phillip Morris with theft by deception.

Lightning struck a house, starting a fire that resulted in $100,000 damage to the structure and contents.