Kershaw County News

This "nearnormal" hurricane season that NOAA is predicting could still prove to be one for the record books.

The Lexington County Sheriff's Department is investigating a deadly shooting in Gilbert Thursday night.

Each day, each student at Okatie Elementary School writes for an hour. Beth Fries' second-grade students would write for two if they could, she said.

After getting a call from his elderly neighbor about a "small" snake in his yard, Heathwood resident Andrew Philson took a look around when he got home and was surprised to see a 15-20 foot long intruder Andrew Philson and his 3-year-old son will sleep a little on edge knowing that the alleged 15 to 20 foot long snake spotted in their backyard on ... (more)

An anonymous donor recently left an antique dollhouse as a gift to the Kershaw County Habitat for Humanity Store.

Kershaw County, SC - Kershaw County deputies say a burglary suspect drove at speeds up to 100 miles an hour as he led them on a chase.

After an investigation spanning several months, Kershaw County narcotics agents have started rounding up 14 suspected drug dealers operating in the county, Sheriff Jim Matthews said on Wednesday.

MYRTLE BEACH, SC Heat, humidity and a slow moving storm system in the upper levels of the atmosphere will keep the risk of thunderstorms in the forecast for Wednesday.

Some teachers and staff in Lexington County schools are getting larger pay raises than the 2 percent increase coming in most Midlands classrooms.

Steven Paul Barnett, 33, is charged with filing a false police report. Kershaw County deputies say that he falsely claimed that a man cut his face and robbed Stoy’s Store in Kershaw near the Lancaster-Kershaw county border while he was working there Tuesday.

Kershaw County, SC - Kershaw County deputies have arrested a man they say made up a claim that he was robbed at work all in a bid to get attention.

"At best, it has the appearance of impropriety," said John Crangle with Common Cause.

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The state Senate will take up the budget this week . The $6.6 billion proposal includes a 3 percent raise for most state workers.

The department arrested three men after receiving an anonymous tip that a plan was in place to rob a bank in an armored car in an operation the suspects called "The Big Lick," deputies said.

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Camden, Sc - No one on Kershaw's County Council made a motion for the first reading of the proposed new Police Department effectively killing the ordinance.

Kershaw County, SC - An effort to create a new Kershaw County police force has failed, after the plan got no support from the community at a county council meeting Tuesday night.

Myrtle Beach police reported the arrest earlier today of Willie Smith, 54, who is accused of the manufacture and possession of illegal drugs and other substances.

A New Jersey mom has pleaded not guilty to a charge of child endangerment for allegedly taking her 6-year-old daughter into a tanning booth in violation of state law.