Winnsboro News

Two Lee County schools will soon have new leaders. District Superintendent Dr. Cleo Richardson announced Tuesday that interim principals will be in place soon at Lower Lee Elementary and Dennis Intermediate schools.

As details continue to emerge about the four men accused of holding up the York Street Burger King over the weekend, it appears that some, if not all, of the suspects may have been in the middle of a crime spree across the Midlands that ended in the City of Aiken on Saturday.

State law enforcement agents arrested today the fourth suspect in a weekend Aiken armed robbery that resulted in one of the suspects taking his own life.

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Photo Provided Here is a vehicle that looks similar to the one seen leaving KFC, 4630 Broad St.

She said he was a jealous man. "He had a lot of insecurities and thought I was cheating on him," said the woman whose identity we will not reveal.

Four more people have pleaded guilty in connection with a DSS embezzlement scheme, the U.S. attorney's office has announced.

Community leaders and concerned residents turned out for a meeting at the Old Armory to discuss the future of Mt.

SLED, Fairfield County Sheriff's Office and Winnsboro Department of Public Safety located and arrested Bun Mann III, a man wanted on a variety of charges including sexual assault, assault and battery, and kidnapping in Fairfield and Richland Counties.

Sumter deputies are looking for three men who robbed a Kentucky Fried Chicken at gunpoint Sunday afternoon.

Richland County Deputies are looking for a man they say forced his girlfriend at knifepoint to Winnsboro after sexually assaulting her.

Richland County authorities say they are looking for a man wanted for forcing his girlfriend at knife point to Winnsboro, South Carolina.

One Winnsboro lady is searching for the identity of a face in a long-forgotten picture.

One man was killed in a Saturday night shooting in Winnsboro. The victim, Mahquann Lofton, was shot in the chest following a conflict at a house party in the 700 block of College Street.

Winnsboro police are looking for tips in the Sunday morning robbery of a KFC restaurant.

The Fairfield County coroner says a 20-year-old Winnsboro man was murdered early Sunday morning.

Thoughts of returning home to loved ones and Saturdays filled with college football are on the minds of some of the 60 S.C. National Guard soldiers serving in an Army helicopter unit in Afghanistan.

A South Carolina police chief charged with assault and battery after a fight outside a nightclub has resigned.

BREAKING NEWS: Yates expected to resign Monday, sources say. Sources close to the department tell the Herald Independent that embattled police chief Wayne Yates will resign Monday in the wake of an early morning barroom brawl last week.

Winnsboro Department of Public Safety Chief Wayne Yates was released on bond Thursday afternoon, facing charges of assault and battery stemming from an early-morning bar fight last weekend.