Gaston News

Lexington County deputies have arrested a business owner they say shot and killed a man outside his store.

A 66-year-old South Carolina man is charged with killing a 37-year-old business owner.

The Lexington County Sheriff's Department is investigating an overnight murder. Major John Allard says two men were arguing at an auction facility known as Cowboy's. According to Major Allard, one man pulled out a gun and shot and killed the other.

Two men already being held at the Lexington County Detention Center are now facing murder charges in an unrelated case, the Lexington County Sheriff's Department said.

Authorities have arrested two more men and are looking for a third in connection with a shooting Wednesday in a Fairview community home.

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The Lexington County Sheriff's Department has three men in custody charged in connection with what they say was a drug-related shooting on Wednesday near Pelion.

A fundraiser will be held to benefit Mikey Pound, the 3-year-old child who survived the Gaston-area car crash earlier this month in which his mother was killed.

Wearing a cowboy hat, boots and a shotgun belt, Laura Clemmons yells, "You Shot Ed," and draws a revolver at the sound of a beep, firing at steel targets.

York County investigators are being tight lipped about the grisly discovery of a woman's body on Robinson Yelton Road Thursday afternoon.

Lot 7 Friendly Woods Road, Blythewood, from Walter and Donna Jackson to Jennifer and Clayton Embleton, $55,000 618 Harlequin Court, Blythewood, from C And C Builders of Columbia Inc.

Published: Friday, October 23, 2009 at 10:02 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, October 23, 2009 at 10:02 a.m. A Union County man on Wednesday drove what authorities called a "rolling bomb" more than 80 miles from his deceased uncle's home in Lexington County to the Union County Courthouse.

Irmo police are searching for a man they is responsible for several burglaries in the New Friarsgate neighborhood.

A South Carolina woman has died but her 3-year-old son was rescued from a fiery collision with a van.

The Lexington County coroner identified the woman who died Tuesday after a multiple car collison--a collision in which driver of the other vehicle was able to rescue the woman's 3 1/2 year-old son.

Lexington County deputies have arrested a man they say broke into a grocery store, stole lottery tickets, and then cashed some of them in.

In Gaston, officials are looking for answers in the death of a Gaston man. Deputies say a fear of talking is standing in the way of solving the murder of Andrew Powell.

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