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KERSHAW - Wayne Rhodes will serve as Kershaw’s mayor for at least another four years.

Rhodes defeated Donald McMaster in Tuesday’s mayor’s race, in which Rhodes received 209 votes (79 percent) compared to 56 for McMaster, who ran as a write-in candidate. 

Rhodes is thankful for the victory and said the outcome affirms that the residents are happy with the direction the town is headed. 

The official unemployment rate in Lancaster County for January was 14.6 percent.  

A Lancaster County man was recently sentenced to more than six years in prison on charges of being a felon in possession of a firearm. 

Brandon O’Neil Broach, 30, of Lancaster County, received a six-and-a-half-year sentence in federal court in Columbia. 

U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie also sentenced Broach to three years of supervised release following his prison sentence, according to a press release from U.S. Attorney Bill Nettles. 

A Kershaw man was killed after he was hit by a car driven by a Heath Springs woman Tuesday morning.

Robert Alan Wilson, 61, of Kershaw, died at the scene of the accident from blunt force trauma, said Kershaw County Coroner Johnny Fellers. 

The accident happened at 7:05 a.m. Tuesday as Wilson walked south on U.S. 521 at Youngs Bend Road in Kershaw County. Wilson was hit by a 2005 Nissan driven by Deborah Walker, 53, of Heath Springs, who was also traveling south on U.S. 521, said Lance Cpl. Josef Robinson, with the S.C. Highway Patrol.