Summit News

Food Lion plans to open what is believed to be South Carolina's first "green" grocery store in Columbia.

A local Batesburg-Leesville landmark has a new lease on life, thanks to a rebuilt dam.

Members of a dozen arts groups and social programs asked Richland County Council at a hearing Thursday not to cut their funding.

"Moonlight & Magnolias," which opens at Workshop Theatre Friday, finds humor in the script-writing process.

Columbia, SC - Almost 500 local officials and community members from around South Carolina are packing a room at the Convention Center in Columbia today.

Scenic corridors, where trees would be protected and signs restricted, are on the drawing board in unincorporated Lexington County.

Representatives of state and federal agencies responsible for distributing stimulus funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to local governments will speak at a Stimulus 101 Summit on April 17 in Columbia, the Municipal Association of South Carolina announced today.

Posted on Monday, April 06, 2009 at 4:57 p.m. Lexington Fire Department Dispatch confirms there is a 20-acre woods fire being contained off Boiling Springs Road.A The fire began when a tree fell on a power line in the area.A There are 4 fireA engines on site at this time.A There is also a woods fire on Blue Field Road in Lexington.

The reassessment notices most Richland County residents got last month help people measure one of their most valuable assets - their homes.

Monday, March 16, 2009 at 11:05 p.m. The Lexington County Sheriffa s Department will conduct a community awareness meeting at 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 19 at the auditorium at Gilbert High School, 840 Main ...

A judge under scrutiny for his handling of a Richland County felony child abuse case in which he gave the defendant no jail time has canceled a hearing to reconsider his sentence.

A judge who gave no jail time to a former Northeast Richland day care operator convicted of a felony child abuse charge will decide Tuesday whether to change the sentence he handed down.

Ten entrepreneurs took home awards and seed money from the ThinkTEC Innovation Summit for their business ideas.

Senate President Pro Tempore Glenn McConnell confirmed this afternoon he will vote Wednesday against the re-election of Circuit Judge Kenneth Goode of Winnsboro, citing a pattern of 'abuse of discretion.' ...

Child care providers who seriously injure children would face minimum two-year prison sentences under a state bill introduced Thursday.

Michelle Gaddie says she doesn't want any parent to go through what she and her husband went through Monday in Richland County Circuit Court.

A former Summit neighborhood day care operator accused of slapping a baby girl hard enough to cause bleeding on her brain pleaded guilty Monday to a felony child abuse charge.