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  • Company announces plan to bring almost 200 jobs

    A health supplement developer will bring almost 200 jobs to Lancaster County.

    Nutramax Laboratories, Inc. and Nutramax Manufacturing, Inc. announced Tuesday plans to move to the Lancaster County Business Park on Quality Drive in Lancaster. The companies, which develop health supplements for humans and animals, expect to bring 203 jobs when they relocate from Maryland. About 20 to 30 of those jobs will be transfers.

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  • Story updateProbe continues in shooting death of 3-year-old girl

    The Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office is continuing its investigation into the shooting death of a 3-year-old girl earlier this week.

    Jayleen Elaine Jackson, 3, of 2517 Douglas Road, was shot in an incident at 2040 Athena Road about 9:40 p.m. Monday, according to the Lancaster County Sheriff's Office.

    Jackson was taken to Springs Memorial Hospital by car where she was stabilized and then flown to the Charlotte Medical Center. She died Tuesday morning.

    The State Law Enforcement Division is assisting sheriff's office investigators with the case.

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  • 3-year-old dies from gunshot wound

    A 3-year-old girl died Tuesday morning after being shot Monday night, Sheriff Barry Faile said.

    Sheriff’s deputies responded to a home on Athena Road about 9:40 p.m. because of a shooting.

    When they arrived, no victim was found, but about the same time, Lancaster Police Department officers stopped a speeding car headed toward Springs Memorial Hospital. Inside the car was the child, Faile said.

    Faile would not say if the shooting happened inside or outside the home, or if it was a drive-by shooting. It was not known if the child was the intentional target.

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  • Breaking News Man, 21, dies from gunshot wound

    A 21-year-old man was fatally shot before crashing his car into a 15th Street house on Monday.

    According to a press release from the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office, Charles Douglas Harris Jr., of 2014 Pinta Drive, was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash by Lancaster County Chief Deputy Coroner Karla Knight Deese. An autopsy showed that Harris died of a gunshot wound.

    Harris was apparently shot before crashing his 2000 Chevrolet Malibu into 943 15th St. about 2:30 p.m. His death has been ruled a murder, according to the sheriff’s office.

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  • County Council meets Monday

    County Council will discuss what to do with two offices that will open up in the county’s emergency medical services complex at its meeting Monday.

    The Coroner’s Office will vacate two rooms there and both EMS and HOPE in Lancaster have asked for those spaces. County Administrator Steve Willis said both agencies have been asked to submit a one-page memo with reasons why they should get the space, and council will consider their reasons on Monday.

    Council will also hold four public hearings on Monday.

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  • Playhouse to stage ‘Oliver!’ at LHS

    “Oliver!” is coming back to the Community Playhouse of Lancaster County stage.

    The playhouse will perform “Oliver!” a musical based on the classic Charles Dickens novel, “Oliver Twist,” on Friday and Saturday, and April 30 and May 1 at 7:30 p.m, at the Lancaster High School Auditorium.

    A matinee will be performed at 3 p.m. April 25.

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  • Southern Starry Night = food, fashion and fun

    Several nonprofit organizations are coming together for a Southern Starry Night of food, fashion and fun.

    Proceeds from the show, Southern Starry Nights, will benefit the Lancaster Children’s Home and Indian Land Rotary Club.

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  • New businesses discussed at economic development meeting

    Attracting new businesses to the county was a central theme at the Lancaster County Economic Development Corp.’s annual meeting Monday.

    LCEDC President Keith Tunnell highlighted development projects that he hopes will stimulate the local economy. More than 100 people attended the meeting, held at the Bradley Arts and Sciences Building at the University of South Carolina at Lancaster.

    Looking at the southern end of the county, Tunnell congratulated Romarco Minerals for reopening the Haile Gold Mine in Kershaw.

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  • Lancaster native receives University of Wisconsin honor

    MADISON, Wis. – Dr. Deborah B. Cureton is a winner of the 2010 Outstanding Women of Color in Education Award, an annual honor given to students, faculty and staff to recognize their contributions to diversity and the status of women within the University of Wisconsin system.

    Cureton, interim CEO and dean at UW-Richland, earned her master’s and bachelor’s degrees at the University of South Carolina. The Lancaster native was the former associate dean at the University of South Carolina at Lancaster.

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  • Man says he was shot while walking

    A Lancaster man told police that he was shot as he walked on Elm Street on Thursday.

    According to a Lancaster Police Department incident report, an officer in the parking lot of a store on York Street heard about five gunshots coming from the area of Cedar and Elm streets about 9:30 p.m.

    The officer drove around the area and heard a man yelling that he had been shot. The officer found the man on the front porch of an Elm Street home.

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