Irmo News

The annual Lexington County Master Gardeners Tour features a varied selection of gardens – old and new, formal and less-so. The eight gardens are open today, Saturday and Sunday.

Irmo, SC - An 11-year-old named Gage Lapina and his parents made no excuses when it came to reaching a specific goal this year; a goal that included a bike and 528 miles.

Maybe you're a label reader. Organic, fair trade, sustainable, local , Certified SC - it seems there's a label for any and every aspect of thoughtful food consumption.

A quartet of professional petition gatherers was dispatched to South Carolina earlier this month to collect signatures on behalf of four vulnerable incumbents in the fiscally liberal State Senate, sources tell FITS.

The Late Mr. Otis Thomas Johnson and Mrs. Frankie Mae Yarborough Johnson are proud to announce the marriage of their daughter Shamieka Bernice Johnson to Michael Paul Sims on May 12, 2012.

An amusing letter from former President Ronald Reagan in response to a 13-year-old boy's request for disaster relief funds to clean up his room is making the rounds again on social media, thanks to a blog writer.

Note: Video is provided as a public service by ETV; video typically is available only when the General Assembly is in session.

Noon-1 p.m. today at the S.C. Archives & History Center, 8301 Parklane Road. SCDAH historian Dr.

GUILTY PLEA: Ronald Grooms, 26, decided to plead guilty moments before a jury was to be selected in his murder trial for his role in the 2008 torture and murder of Frederick Tucker.

Sunday should be a big day for Sue Heath, as her children celebrate both Mother’s Day and her 91st birthday with her.

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Deputies are searching for a suspect they say robbed a female jogger near a dam on April 29, according to sheriff's deputies.

Dr. M.V.S Chandrashekhar, assistant professor of electrical engineering at USC, will share his research of graphene, a new form of alternative energy.

I interview the I just returned from the 10:40 show at the cinema carousel in Muskegon Mi.

Funeral service for Charles Douglas Bennett, 73, will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday, May 1, 2012, at West Bladenboro Baptist Church, with burial in Lewis Cemetery, Bladenboro, N.C. The family received friends from 6 until 8 p.m. Monday, April 30, 2012, at Dunbar Funeral Home, Dutch Fork Chapel, Irmo.

Amber Keener was last seen at Dutch Fork Middle School in Irmo, South Carolina, on the afternoon of 5/3/2012. Amber Keener is 5'4" , 120 Pounds and was last seen wearing Tan Pants, a Blue Polo, Black Sneakers with a Black Belt.

An elementary school student suffered minor injuries when the bus the child was riding was rear-ended by a pickup truck.

Fuzzy Levane, 92: A fixture of New York City basketball for a half-century, playing as a high school and college star and coach and scout for the Knicks.

"It has a dictionary, and it has sound," said the Glenforest School eighth-grader as he runs through a demo of the e-reader. "And you push this button here and get 'Text to Speech.'" Text to Speech is a particularly useful feature for Will who struggles with dyslexia.

Columbia Mayor Steve Benjamin has joined the business and government relations law firm of Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein in its Columbia office.