FAIRFIELD COUNTY – Fairfield County Emergency Management offers the CodeRED Emergency Notification service to all Fairfield County residents. The service includes calls and text messages to citizens for emergency notifications. Notifications consist of, but are not limited to, weather emergencies, missing child alerts, and general emergency Information. When an emergency notification call is received, the […]
Blythewood man charged following shooting on S.C. State campus
October 6, 2025 By
COLUMBIA – SLED (South Carolina Law Enforcement Division) has charged Matthew Daniel McCoy, 18, of Blythewood, in connection with one of two shootings that killed a woman and injured a man at South Carolina State University Saturday night. McCoy was charged with Pointing and Presenting a Firearm at a Person, and Carrying a Weapon on […]
FOI’d documents link mayor to comped, reduced Manor fees
October 2, 2025 By
BLYTHEWOOD – The Manor, Blythewood’s event venue, hasn’t made a profit or broke even since it opened in 2015. Its net loss for fiscal year 2024-25 was the highest loss yet – a staggering $175,375.56, up $34,177.50 over the previous year’s net loss. Documents received in Blythewood town hall’s Sept. 8 response to a Freedom […]
Blythewood beset with investigations
October 2, 2025 By
BLYTHEWOOD – Over the weekend, The Voice emailed questions to RCSD about the use of several words that appeared in a report issued last week regarding the incident at the Manor on Sept. 11 when Michelle Layman went to deliver a check for her husband. Deputy Chief Maria Yturria, Office of Professional Development at RCSD […]
SCDOT seeks input on Peach Rd. bridge replacement
October 2, 2025 By
FAIRFIELD COUNTY – The South Carolina Department of Transportation (SCDOT) requests comments from the public on a proposed project to replace the bridge on S-20-30 (West Peach Road) over Little Cedar Creek in Fairfield County. The project includes replacing the existing bridge, realigning the roadway approaches as necessary and improving the roadway approaches to meet […]
Third suspect arrested for property crimes
October 2, 2025 By
WINNSBORO – Terquan Eugene Johnson 25, of Hopkins, has been charged with multiple counts of burglary, including Burglary 1st Degree and Burglary 2nd Degree, as well as multiple counts of Grand Larceny and Criminal Conspiracy, according to the Fairfield County Sheriff’s Office. Johnson is the third suspect arrested in connection with a lengthy, multi-jurisdictional property […]
Illegal THC products seized from Fairfield vape shops
October 2, 2025 By
FAIRFIELD COUNTY – After numerous complaints from parents, school resource officers, and community members about underage kids regularly purchasing illegal THC products from the Vape stores in Fairfield County, the Fairfield County Sheriff’s Office and South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) executed search warrants at three local vape shops on Sept. 24. These search warrants […]
Bengals shut out Spring Valley
October 2, 2025 By
COLUMBIA – James Veasey passed for 218 yards, including a 93-yard touchdown strike to Chance Johnson, and ran for two scores, and Braden Marye rushed for 92 yards and a touchdown as the Bengals (3-3, 1-1 Region 5-5A) got back on the winning track with a 46-0 whipping of the Vikings at Spring Valley (2-4, […]
Brown wins Dist. 3 Winnsboro town council seat
September 30, 2025 By
WINNSBORO – Russell (Russ) Brown, 44, received 97 votes (54.49 percent) Tuesday night to handily win the District 3 Winnsboro town council seat in a special election. Brown, who previously served two terms on the Ridgeway town council before moving to Winnsboro 11 years ago, bested two other candidates – lifelong Fairfield County resident Trista […]
Kershaw fugative sentenced for murder of former FCHS student
September 25, 2025 By
KERSHAW COUNTY – A Kershaw County jury convicted Alexander Francis Harmon of murder on Sept. 17, 2025. The Honorable Heath P. Taylor sentenced Harmon to life in the SC Department of Corrections. On June 2, 2018, Harmon’s father alerted Kershaw County dispatch that Harmon confessed to shooting his girlfriend, Katelin Crocker, after an argument. Crocker […]
