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KERSHAW – Dormitories at Kershaw Correctional Institute on Gold Mine Highway are under lockdown and visitations have been cancelled after a flu outbreak began at the medium security prison last week.

When the subject turned to cluster subdivisions during Lancaster County Council’s meeting on Sept. 9, Indian Land resident James James told officials that “enough is enough.”

Christopher Sardelli
csardelli@thelancasternews.com
A family court hearing is the likely next stop for a 12-year-old Lancaster boy who was taken into custody earlier this month in the case of a teen who was shot several times with a BB gun.
The case began just before 6 p.m. Sept. 4 when officers responded to the Springs Memorial Hospital emergency room about a shooting victim, according to a Lancaster Police Department incident report.
An emergency room nurse told officers a 13-year-old boy had been shot several times with a BB gun, the report said.

Christopher Sardelli
csardelli@thelancasternews.com
A Lancaster man is due in court Monday for the first day of his trial on a variety of charges, chiefly murder and armed robbery.
Junior Lee Kiker, 31, is facing charges in connection with the murder of David Brazzell, who was shot and killed inside his home July 16, 2011, according to Sixth Circuit Solicitor Doug Barfield.
Barfield said Kiker is facing charges of murder, armed robbery, first-degree burglary and possession of a firearm during the commission of a violent crime.