Williamsburg County Council tabled third and final reading on a proposed landfill Thursday night in Kingstree after a public hearing in which residents pleaded with council not to enter into an agreement to develop the landfill.

Williamsburg County Council held a special community meeting Thursday night at Nesmith Baptist Church to address residents’ environmental concerns of the proposed county landfill.

Williamsburg County residents are invited to attend a public forum Thursday night to talk about a proposed landfill. That landfill is proposed to go up near the small community of Nesmith.

The Pee Dee Land Trust will be permanently protecting, by conservation easement, 950 acres in Williamsburg County through the S.D. McGill Jr. Estate.

State Law Enforcement Division Pee Dee Region agents have arrested a former administrative assistant for the Williamsburg County Magistrate’s Office accused of misappropriating public funds.

More than 200 people attended a hearing on a proposed landfill agreement between MRR Williamsburg LLC and Williamsburg County Council on Tuesday night in Kingstree.

Williamsburg County deputies are searching for whoever vandalized a church in Salters this past weekend.

The family of a slain Nesmith couple still is searching for answers some two years after the crime.

A 24-year-old Lake City man is in custody after police said he robbed a store and then led deputies on a high-speed chase across two counties.

Williamsburg’s new director of library services was greeted by members of the Hemingway Friends of the Library Sunday afternoon

Shane Stuckey of Stuckey reports that harvest time for winter wheat is here and things are looking good for wheat farmers.

On June 25, 2008, an operation known as Falcon (Federal And Local Cops Organized Nationally),  resulted in the arrest of 20 individuals throughout Williamsburg County on various charges.

Williamsburg Recycling is planning to establish operations in Williamsburg County, investing about $2.5 million and creating up to 30 jobs in the future.

The U.S. Justice Department says it will send federal observers to South Carolina’s Williamsburg County to monitor the primary elections Tuesday.

A Williamsburg County shooting suspect faces a murder charge after the victim of a May 17 nightclub shooting died Tuesday evening, Williamsburg County Chief Deputy Sheriff Dwayne Wilson said.