Irmo News

Four Lowcountry innovators took home awards in the New Ideas SC contest, including the grand prize.

Nine municipalities in Richland and Lexington counties have elections for town leaders Tuesday.

Get all the final results from Tuesday's contested races in municipalities in Lexington and Richland counties, including Batesburg-Leesville's mayoral race and Irmo's vote on allowing Sunday sale of beer and wine by the package.

Police are searching for an 18-year-old suspect they say helped pistol-whipped a D Avenue resident.

It's a mostly quiet year for politics in the state of South Carolina, but Irmo politicians want voters to decide on Nov.

Columbia police are on the scene of an armed robbery at the Rite Aid on Broad River Road near Irmo.

Subway spokesman Jared Fogle will announce the South Carolina winners of a video and poster competition aimed at curbing childhood obesity.

A South Carolina man is facing a driving while intoxicated charge following a one-vehicle crash this morning in Lenox, state police said.

Arson is now suspected in a major fire that did more than $500,000 worth of damage to a three-story apartment building on Broad River Road.

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

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Phil Tanner was settled into his career, enjoying the perks of working for a company that paid well with fringe benefits.

South Carolina pays unemployment benefits to some workers who are fired from their jobs for everything from drug use to stealing to being late to work.

Former Brunswick County Sheriff Ronald E. Hewett has been moved to a halfway house in Raleigh, N.C., according to Federal Bureau of Prisons data.

Saturday, October 17, 2009 at 12:03 a.m. Back in April the City of Columbia announced they were going online, listing there spending habits for everyone to see.A Six months later its still a work in progress and twelve other municipalities including Irmo and Cayce offer a detailed list of there spending for everyone to see.

Five burglaries in Irmo's New Friarsgate neighborhood have neighbors concerned and police stepping up patrols.

Irmo police arrested three people and seized cash, drugs and guns after conducting drug raids Thursday night.

Thousands of dollars in cash, drugs and guns were among the bounty found in two drug raids Thursday night according to the Irmo Police Department.

Education: Graduate of Western Alamance High in Burlington, N.C.; attended Appalachian State University; graduate of Municipal Elected Officials Institute of Government Occupation: Owner of furniture revival service Elected political experience: Town councilman since 2005 Current membership in community organizations: Friarsgate Residential ...

S.C. prison officials have recaptured the last of three minimum-security inmates to escape in the past week.