Gaston News

Diamond Pet Foods will expand its facility in Lexington County, investing $3.8 million and adding 37 jobs, state and local development officials said today.

Police in North Carolina Monday shot to death the man who had killed five people in South Carolina, officials said.

Reversing a decade-long trend, many of America's largest cities are now growing more quickly than the rest of the nation, yet another sign of an economic crisis that is making it harder for people to move.

A 75-year-old Gaston man was sentenced to 65 years in prison after a Lexington County jury convicted him of sexually assaulting a girl he knew, 11th Circuit Solicitor Donnie Myers said Thursday.

A Columbia teenager was arrested in connection with an armed robbery Wednesday at a motel near West Columbia, where the suspect had stayed for two days before the robbery, Lexington County Sheriff James Metts said.

Funeral Services for Mr. Carl Leroy Colwell, Gaston, SC, are private and under the direction of South Carolina Cremation & Burial Society.

A former youth minister at a South Carolina church has been arrested and charged with sex crimes involving three people.

Foremost Pipeline Construction Co. Inc. of Gaston, S.C., has been awarded the National Utility Contractors Associationa s 2008 William H. Feather Safety Award.

Lexington County deputies are searching for those responsible for stealing more than 50 utility trailers and more than 20 riding lawn mowers since January 1st this year, and they are asking for the public's help in finding them.

Officials in Calhoun County say a man was murdered at the corner of Pine Planes Road and Mack Street.

Fire officials in Lexington County are trying to figure out what sparked a blaze in a mobile home.

A 29-year-old South Carolina man has been charged with killing a Charlotte, N.C., woman, following the discovery of a burned car with a body inside.

Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 3:55 p.m. More than 30 persons who were wanted on family court bench warrants that were issued after the persons did not make court-ordered child support payments in Lexington County turned themselves in on the warrants on Wednesday, May 27 during the third annual Family Court Amnesty Day that the Lexington County ...

State troopers and local law enforcement officers will be out in force Memorial Day weekend, making sure people are wearing seat belts, not driving drunk and respecting other drivers.

A 22-year-old Columbia man was shot to death early Sunday morning in the Gaston community just over the boundary line in Calhoun County.

One man is dead after he was shot in what Sheriff Thomas Summers calls a "drug deal gone bad." 22-year-old Christopher Donell Robinson of Columbia was shot and killed in the parking lot of the American Legion Post in Gaston early Sunday morning.

Friday, May 22, 2009 at 1:58 p.m. Officers with the Lexington County Deputies arrested two men and one woman and seized a methamphetamine laboratory that was being operated outside a home on Constellation Trail near West Columbia Thursday.

Police in West Columbia have arrested a man and a woman they say are responsible for a burglary in the city, and could be responsible for more in other jurisdictions.

Thursday, May 21, 2009 at 1:41 p.m. W. COLUMBIA, SC -- A TwoA individuals A have been charged with burglary in West Columbia.A Jacqueline S. Townson, 34, of Gaston and Jayson Hoyt Brazell, 29, of West Columbia have both been chargedA with one count each of Burglary 1st, and one count of criminal conspiracy.A Brazell was also charged with possession ...

Updated 10:30 a.m. Two bodies discovered on roadsides this morning in Lexington and Calhoun counties, one with an apparent gunshot wound, are likely homicides and are being investigated to see if they are linked, officials said.