Pelion News

There's a significant new surgery that just started being performed in South Carolina.

Two Chapin children, ages 5 and 3, were killed Monday morning in a four-vehicle wreck in Lexington County that injured their mother and sent two other drivers to the hospital, authorities said.

Funeral services for Wilma J. Harris, also known as "Mama Joe," 79, will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, June 20, 2009, at Caughman-Harman Funeral Home, Irmo/St. Andrews Chapel with interment in Bush River Memorial Gardens.

This is the last summer Girl Scouts can ride horses, swim and hike at Camp Congaree.

Forts Pond Elementary students and staff members were removed temporarily from the school this morning after a fire started in an electrical service room, the Lexington County Fire Service said.

Alejandro James Delin, age two months, died Saturday, June 6, 2009. Graveside funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, June 10, 2009, in Reeves Cemetery, 570 Tindal Road, Pelion, with Rev.

A Pelion man has been sentenced to 21 years in prison after a Lexington County jury convicted him of distributing crack cocaine, 11th Circuit Solicitor Donnie Myers said in a release Tuesday.

Lexington County deputy Brannon Slice wanted children in Pelion to have the playground he never did while growing up in the tiny town.

Six men have been charged in connection with Sunday's drug-related shooting death of a Columbia man, the Calhoun County Sheriff's Office said Wednesday.

After building a couple custom bikes out of his garage that caught attention and won awards, Eddie Wise of Pelion, South Carolina, got "wise" and decided to take things a little more seriously.

Patricia Hildebrand received a new heart more than two years ago, but needs your help to keep going.

There was great action at the Orangeburg Drag Strip this past weekend with great Gsudge Racing and a Stock Suspension shoot out.

Martha Livingston Young of 1954 Lee Way St., 75, died Sunday, May 10. Mrs. Young died Sunday morning at the Regional Medical Center in Orangeburg.

Posted on Monday, May 04, 2009 at 9:46 p.m. More than 60 teachers will be laid off in Lexington-Richland Five.A An additional 150 teaching positions may also be eliminated.

Gregory Craft and Juanita Richardson are serious about crawfish. So when they heard about Saturday's Rosewood Crawfish Festival, Craft and Richardson put on their purple and gold LSU T-shirts and went to see just how good crawfish is in these parts.

Posted on Friday, May 01, 2009 at 1:22 p.m. Lexington County Sheriff's Department detectives in cooperation with the Pelion Police Department arrested three Pelion men in connection with the theft of 12 all-terrain vehicles Read story Friday, May 01, 2009 at 10:04 AM Two men were arrestedA Thursday by Richland County Sheriff's Deputies in ...

Yes: 36.3% No: 63.7% A lot to learn President Obama didn't get what he hoped to get from European nations - a commitment for a stimulus program - and he didn't get anyone to sign on to stronger condemnation of North Korea's launching a missile.

A man died Monday afternoon in a fire at Hendrix Mobile Home Park near West Columbia - the second fatal blaze at the park since February.

The South Carolina Forestry Commission firefighters battled two different woods fires on Monday, according to spokesman Scott Hawkins.

ANNA NICOLE "NIKKI" NEPITA has received the 2009 Alpha Omega Award of the Carolinas.