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Rucker Middle School girls basketball coach Ashley Price calls her Lady Rams’ team “a special group.”
How special?
Well, for the last two seasons, the Lady Rams are a most impressive 27-0 on the hardwood.
That’s a stunning 27-oh! The 2011 team went 13-0 and the 2012 squad was 14-0.
Price is right. That’s special.
Then throw in the fact that the Lady Rams’ volleyball team, which Price guided, went unbeaten last fall and that’s extra special.

A cloud of sadness hung over the University of South Carolina Lancaster campus Friday.
Faculty members and students walked from one building to the next, somberly discussing the unfortunate accident the night before that seriously injured one of their own – Dr. Nathalie Davaut.  
Davaut, who teaches French and Spanish at USCL, was struck by a pickup truck as she was crossing Hubbard Drive. Dr. Darris Hassell, one of her foreign language colleagues, said he was shaken when he learned about the accident later that night.

S.C. Department of Natural Resources
The S.C. Department of Natural Resources' Heritage Trust Program will work with the S.C. Forestry Commission to conduct several prescribed burns on about 400 acres of Forty Acre Rock Heritage Preserve/Wildlife Management Area in Lancaster County over the next few months.
The entire preserve encompasses 2,267 acres, so the 400 acres to be burned is about 17 percent of the total acreage.

Jesef Williams
jwilliams@thelancasternews.com
A private Super Bowl gathering turned violent for two Lancaster men earlier this month.  
Police came to a home in the 700 block of Taylor Street at 9:40 p.m. Feb. 5 in response to a call about an assault.
An officer saw that a man had a bleeding wound above his left eye and a wound on his left hand, according to a Lancaster Police Department incident report.