We prove the local Hölder continuity for the weak solutions of the following elliptic partial differential equations of second order: \(\begin{aligned} -\text {div} \, ( A(x) \nabla u(x) ) + {\textbf {b}}(x) \cdot \nabla u(x) + V(x) u(x) = 0 \qquad \text {in} \,\, \Omega , \end{aligned}\) where \(\Omega \) is an open bounded subset of \(\mathbb {R}^N\) , \(N \ge 3\) , A(x) is an elliptic symmetric matrix with \(L^{\infty }(\Omega )\) -coefficients, and the lower-order terms \({\textbf {b}}(x)\) and V(x) are respectively a vector field and a function such that \(|{\textbf {b}}|^2\) and V belonging to the Morrey spaces \(L^{1,\lambda }(\Omega )\) , for \(N-2<\lambda <N\) .