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Yellow crime scene tape crisscrossed a crumpled Honda and a white pickup truck missing a tire Tuesday, May 7, hours after the two-vehicle wreck left a Monroe, N.C., man dead along Camp Creek Road. 

Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office investigators are looking into the events leading up to the death of Jeffrey Whitener, 26, in the crash, according to a sheriff’s office press release. 

Lancaster County Coroner Mike Morris said the Monroe man was killed after he was ejected from a car he was driving just before 6 a.m.

With Lancaster’s Thomas & Betts facility on the verge of increasing its workforce, plant manager Mike Scutella credited their expansion to “culture change.”
That change, along with an emphasis on safety and lean manufacturing, were the focus of Scutella’s presentation to a packed house of business and government leaders during the Lancaster County Economic Development Corporation’s annual meeting April 23.

Conservation district seeking pastor
The Conservation District is seeking a pastor interested in conserving our natural resources to serve on the board. The Conservation Districts are subdivisions of state government that works to address natural resource concerns.

An anonymous tip and a joint surveillance operation led to the April 27 arrests of two men wanted for burglary in Georgia.
A group of Lancaster County sheriff’s deputies and agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives tracked down and arrested Travis Christopher Cason, 25, of Evans, Ga., and Eric Andrew Chambers, 26, no address available, according to a Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office incident report.