Lexington County News

DHL, one of the world's largest shipping companies, is opening a processing center in Lexington County that will employ 200 jobs initially, a number that could rise to 700, Lexington County officials said.

Two men already being held at the Lexington County Detention Center are now facing murder charges in an unrelated case, the Lexington County Sheriff's Department said.

Attorney General Henry McMaster announced on Friday that warrants have been issued for 36 people charged for their involvement in two cockfighting operations in Lexington and Williamsburg Counties .

Three more major tenants have closed on land and are ready to begin construction at the new South Carolina State Farmers Market in Lexington County.

The emphasis at Chapin's Boundary Field soon will shift from baseballs to emergency calls.

Lexington County deputies have a man in custody after they say he was operating a methamphetamine laboratory near Gilbert.

The U.S. Preventative Services Task Force says women should start getting mammograms at 50-years of age and repeat them every other year until age 70.

State Rep. Nikki Haley of Lexington, a Republican candidate for governor in 2010, will visit Hartsville to meet voters fro 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov.

Former S.C. Majority Leader Rick Quinn made it official this week, sending a letter to constituents in Lexington County announcing his candidacy for the S.C. House of Representatives.

Lexington County Fire Service responded to two seperate mobile home fires overnight Monday.

With the holiday season upon us discussions and careful strategic planning of what day, time, and place we will be celebrating Christmas with all the assorted family members that our average modern family consists of has brought on some thoughts of other, less stressful holiday traditions.

Veteran mayors in three Lexington County towns handily turned back re-election challenges Tuesday.

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Three men have been charged in connection with a drug-related shooting incident Wednesday in the Fairview community, according to the Lexington County Sheriff's Department.

Investigators in Lexington County are searching for three people in the Town of Pelion who they want to question about a drug-related shooting that left one man injured Wednesday afternoon.

Federal authorities say 21 people have been charged for their roles in cockfighting businesses operating in South Carolina.

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.

A 20-year-old Lexington man whose body was found along a road near West Columbia had been shot to death, the Lexington County coroner's office said Monday.

Authorities are investigating the death of a 20-year-old South Carolina man whose body was discovered over the weekend.

"Foul play" is the phrase Lexington County deputies are using to describe the death of a Gilbert man found in West Columbia.