Archive By Section - Crime-Police-Fire
Four accidents in Lugoff in the space of about an hour Friday, left one man dead and another being treated for severe injuries. Three of the accidents, including the fatality, took place on U.S. 1 in Lugoff. A fourth accident occurred on U.S. 601 near the I-20 interchange.
November 17, 2015
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Martin L.
Cahn
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Crime-Police-Fire
The Camden Police Department (CPD) is investigating the armed robbery of a convenience store in the 2600 block of Broad Street around 8 p.m. Sunday.
November 17, 2015
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Martin L.
Cahn
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Crime-Police-Fire
An Elgin woman and her boyfriend died early Thursday morning in a head-on collision on Bowen Street near Tupelo Lane.
November 13, 2015
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Martin L.
Cahn
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Crime-Police-Fire
Kershaw County Sheriff's Office (KCSO) seized a gun found in a purse outside an Elgin apartment during the early morning hours of Nov. 4 and then had to force their way into the apartment to make sure nobody had been hurt.
November 10, 2015
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Martin L.
Cahn
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Crime-Police-Fire
A northbound Amtrak passenger train struck a logging truck around 6 a.m. Monday just off U.S. 1 in Cassatt. According to Kershaw County Sheriff Jim Matthews, the truck had just turned off of U.S. 1 on to Robert Reynolds Road. Railroad tracks hug U.S. 1 with the ungated and unlighted crossing just feet off the highway.
November 10, 2015
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Martin L.
Cahn
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Crime-Police-Fire
Kershaw County Sheriff's Office (KCSO) deputies arrested two men Tuesday not long after the men allegedly burglarized a home on Hunt Road in Lugoff.
November 06, 2015
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Crime-Police-Fire
Kershaw County Sheriff's Office (KCSO) deputies arrested an Elgin man after he allegedly attacked a 41-year-old man while wielding a machete and fired shots at the victim and a witness.
November 03, 2015
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Martin L.
Cahn
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Crime-Police-Fire
Camden Police Department (CPD) officers arrested a 40-year-old Camden man for first-degree assault after allegedly stabbing another man in the chest Oct. 17.
October 27, 2015
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Martin L.
Cahn
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Crime-Police-Fire
The Kershaw County Sheriff's Office (KCSO) is seeking the public's help in tracking down a man investigators say is responsible for burglarizing an Elgin store during a mandatory curfew Oct. 4 following the historic flood event.
October 23, 2015
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Crime-Police-Fire
Elgin Police Department (EPD) officers are investigating an Oct. 10 shooting incident at a Main Street business.
October 20, 2015
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Martin L.
Cahn
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Crime-Police-Fire
Gas canisters thrown through windows and a S.C. State Law Enforcement Division (SLED) robot weren't enough to flush 43-year-old Shane Todd Allen out of an east Camden home Friday morning. A six-hour standoff ended when SLED agents themselves went into a house on Davis Street and found Allen hiding behind a piece of furniture in a bedroom, according to Kershaw County Sheriff Jim Matthews.
October 20, 2015
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Martin L.
Cahn
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Crime-Police-Fire
A 29-year-old Camden man is in jail on charges he sexually assaulted a 5-year-old girl.
October 16, 2015
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Crime-Police-Fire
A Kershaw County Sheriff's Office (KCSO) report reveals the man who drowned after his car was washed away off Pine Grove Road at Twenty-Five Mile Creek in Lugoff on Oct. 4 was driving the vehicle, not a female relative as first reported.
October 13, 2015
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Martin L.
Cahn
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Crime-Police-Fire
Two people died, one at the scene and another at an area hospital, following a fiery single-car crash on Lovett Road in east Camden.
October 13, 2015
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Martin L.
Cahn
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Crime-Police-Fire
A Kershaw County Sheriff's Office (KCSO) deputy arrested a man Oct. 7 on drug possession charges after the subject returned to where the same deputy had just given him a warning for speeding.
October 13, 2015
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Martin L.
Cahn
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Crime-Police-Fire
