Richland County News

Cameron Stringfellow, of Columbia, is being charged with driving under the influence of a controlled substance, patrol Lance Cpl.

Richland County deputies say the suspect they say shot and killed his girlfriend's sister has turned himself in tonight.

The South Carolina Department of Public Safety will focus its annual safety belt enforcement and education campaign on nighttime safety belt use.

The five candidates seeking a seat on the Richland 1 school board were divided Thursday over proposed state legislation that would require third-graders reading below grade level to be held back for a year of reading-intensive instruction.

John Baptist Church, Farrow Road and West Beltline Blvd.; and 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Wednesday at Grace United Methodist Church, 410 Harbison Blvd.

If the city and county hadn't reached that point before, they're certainly there now.

The agency that helps criminal offenders in our state get back on track is working to find dedicated people to join their ranks.

A former Richland County deputy is out of a job and in trouble with the law after allegedly forcing a woman to expose herself and touch herself inappropriately in exchange for help with criminal charges.

Authorities say Hamm slammed the boy's head into a bathtub faucet while she was babysitting him May 18.

Defense attorneys are to present their case for a South Carolina man charged with killing his wife and his colleague in a sports gambling ring.

As the new 2013 phone books are being delivered, Keep the Midlands Beautiful encourages residents to recycle last year's books.

As crews in Oklahoma continue to carefully sift through rubble, a group of firefighters in Richland County knows what they're going through.

A restaurant owner who got snagged in a gambling probe that grew out of the Brett Parker double murder investigation took the stand, as the trial entered its third week.

Both meetings are at the Eau Claire Print Building, 3907 Ensor Ave., at Monticello Road.

A tip from an alert citizen helped Richland County deputies arrest four suspects in a car break-in in the Lake Carolina community, Sheriff Leon Lott said Monday in a press release.

Pockets of heavy rains were reported over the Midlands Sunday, with some areas receiving up to four inches of the wet stuff and others less than one inch, the National Weather Service reported.

SC Department of Revenue investigators today arrested Hopkins resident Michelle Roach on four counts of charges related to tax evasion.

Winnsboro resident and Winnsboro native Oliver Johnson has his say about county tax rates and county council's policies during the public comment session of the county council meeting.

Law enforcement officers and firefighters will collect food from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday at the following locations: BI-LO, 300 Knox Abbott Drive; Reid's Grocery, 2245 Charleston Highway; and Piggly Wiggly, 3040 Charleston Highway.

Richland County – without admitting fault – has agreed to pay the estates of Derald Hill Sr.