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Today's News

  • Bruins lasso Stallions

    The Lancaster Bruins launched the 2012 portion of their basketball schedule with a sweep of visiting Class AAA South Pointe on Tuesday night.

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  • An early surprise

    Terrell Springs started off 2012 by making a mad dash to Lancaster from Great Falls in the wee hours of the morning.

    No, the trip wasn’t in the New Year’s Day  plans of he and his girlfriend, Ashley Boulware. However, their daughter, Telia Alani Springs, couldn’t wait.

    “I had the emergency flashers on all the way,” he said. 

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  • Today's Recipe

    Chef Nancy Hughes hopes you’re hungry.

    The author of “15-Minute Diabetic Meals” and the “The 4-Ingredient Diabetes Cookbook” has put together an easy-to-make Molasses Drumsticks with Soy Sauce recipe that’s finger-licking, lip-smacking good.

    “The molasses gives it a deep, earthy sweetness. It’s like a real dark, rummy brown sugar,” Hughes said in an instructional video posted on the American Diabetes Association website.

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  • New state laws in effect for 2012

    Reece Murphy
    rmurphy@thelancasternews.com
    A cap on lawsuit awards, immigration checks for employees and photo IDs to register a new vehicle top the list of new South Carolina laws that went into effect Sunday, Jan. 1.
    Tort reform
    The S.C. Fairness in Civil Justice Act of 2011, signed into law by Gov. Nikki Haley on June 14, 2011, limits punitive damages in most civil lawsuits to $500,000 or three times the actual damages, whichever is greater.
    The law only affects new lawsuits filed after Jan. 1 and allows for exceptions.

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  • Store robbed Friday

    Jesef Williams
    jwilliams@thelancasternews.com
    No arrests have been made in the Friday night armed robbery of a Meeting Street gas station.
    An officer came to the Westgate Exxon shortly after 8:30 p.m. to talk with the store clerk, who said she was robbed at gunpoint about 10 minutes prior, according to a Lancaster Police Department incident report.
    The clerk was in the cooler stocking drinks when a man entered the store.
    The man had his back toward the clerk when she walked behind the counter and tried to assist him, the report said.

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  • Santa delivers cheer by firetruck

    Michele Roberts
    For The Lancaster News
    INDIAN LAND – Santa took time out of his busy schedule Christmas Eve to accompany the Pleasant Valley and Indian Land fire departments for the 20th year of the Panhandle Project, which distributes Christmas gifts and other goodies to local families in need.
    Volunteers gathered at the Pleasant Valley Fire Department early Dec. 24 to load presents and food boxes onto the firetrucks, which were bound for the homes of 28 families in the panhandle area of Lancaster County.

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  • Bernice Clyburn Carelock, 85

    Bernice Clyburn Carelock, 85

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  • Bernice Clyburn Carelock, 85

    Bernice Clyburn Carelock, 85

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  • A new chapter

    Christopher Sardelli
    csardelli@thelancasternews.com
    As her last week of work with the county came to a close, Cassie Stump sat back in her chair and considered the few small mementos left on her desk.
    Stump, who ended her more than two decades of service to the county last week, had already boxed up most of her belongings, though a few items remained.

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  • Jackets land eight on all-region football team

     

       

    Buford High School landed eight standout players on the 2011 All-Region IV-AA football team.

    The Yellow Jackets  were led by senior two-way standout Marcus Brown, a North-South All-Star game pick.

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