Crime & Courts

A circuit court judge on Thursday set a March 1 hearing in Aiken to determine whether a police videotape that possibly contains footage of a December gun battle in which an Aiken officer was shot to death can be made public.

Two more teens have been arrested in connection with a Lexington County burglary last year.

Richland County deputies were shot at, returned fire, and wounded a suspect in the lower back Thursday evening at a Broad River Road apartment.

The West Columbia Police Department has arrested two women for defrauding unsuspecting victims of money under the guise of subleasing the victims’ apartments.