The State Law Enforcement Division is investigating an incident that ended Sunday and involved a barricaded man in a Lexington home. For more than 24 hours, beginning Saturday afternoon until Sunday afternoon, Lexington Police officers negotiated with the subject, who was barricaded in a home on Cherry Hall Drive. The […]
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Body found in quarry adjacent to the Congaree River
Columbia Police reported the discovery of a body of a white male Monday in the rock quarry off Bluff Road, Columbia. The discovery was made during the the search for a missing University of South Carolina student. Michael Keen, a 22-year-old University of South Carolina student has been missing. Several […]
Lexington man charged with arson by SLED
Agents of the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division Wednesday arrested aLexington County man in connection to a house fire in Richland County Feb. 10. Willie Herman Womble, 41, was charged with second degree arson. The SLED investigation was requested by the Richland County Emergency ServicesDepartment.Womble was booked at the Alvin […]
1 dies in shooting incident on I-26
The Lexington County Sheriff’s Department was on the scene of a shooting in which one person died, after 7 p.m., Sunday. I – 26 eastbound was blocked at the 91 Mile Marker as SLED is investigated an officer-involved shooting, Sunday night, according to Master Trooper David Jones of the SC […]
Pipe bomb found in Irmo, near neighborhood entrance
A pipe bomb was found, Monday, at a bridge into an Irmo subdivision. Irmo Police found a “suspicious device” at the entrance to the Hidden Oaks subdivision, near the intersection of Cressfell and Chapelwhite roads, according to Irmo Police Chief Courtney Dennis. Traffic on the bridge was closed to allowed […]
West Columbia man sentenced to 25 years for trafficking heroin
Jerome Smith, age 57, has been found guilty of Trafficking Heroin, Distribution of Heroin, and Possession with the Intent to Distribute Heroin in Lexington County. Following a bench trial last week before the Honorable Walton J. McLeod, IV, Chief Administrative Judge, Smith was sentenced to 25 years for the Trafficking […]
Lexington Woman shoots and kills her husband, stood to get $500,000 in life insurance, says prosecutor
Kimberly Fletcher Groh, 55, was sentenced Friday to 30 years in prison after entering a plea to the 2016 shooting death of her husband, Michael Bryan. Circuit Court Judge Walton J. McLeod IV imposed the sentence following the plea earlier Friday in Lexington County. Under South Carolina law, Groh is […]
Autopsy reveals 10-year-old died of smoke inhalation
Lexington County Coroner Margaret Fisher has released the results of an autopsy performed on Thursday, on Miss Chloe Eve Doby, 10, of Lexington, who died as a result of a house fire in the 200 block of Golden Leaf Lane in Lexington on June 29. (Feature photo is a file […]