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Today's News

  • BJ’s Feeding America sponsors fundraiser to help end hunger

    BJ's Wholesale Club

    BJ’s Wholesale Club has announced its company-wide initiative to help end hunger. The BJ’s Feeding Communities program donates 10 million pounds of fresh produce and frozen meat and fish each year.

    In partnership with Feeding America, the nation’s leading domestic hunger-relief organization, more than 190 BJ’s Wholesale clubs will donate unsold produce, meat and fish to 44 food banks in 15 states.

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  • Lancaster resident attends recent Girl Scouts convention

    Girl Scouts of 

    South Carolina, 

    Mountains to Midlands 

    Lancaster resident Misty Carpenter joined eight other adults and girls as national delegates at the Girl Scouts of the USA National Convention, held Nov. 10-13 in Houston. The national delegates are elected from areas throughout the 22-county council region and cast votes at the event, which is held every three years.

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  • Man arrested, deputy stable after shooting

    A 19-year-old Lancaster man was arrested hours after he was involved in a shooting that injured a sheriff's deputy Thursday night.
    Rodrick Darnell Caskey, 19, 1781 Baker St., was arrested in connection with a shooting in the Shrimp Boat restaurant, 1668 Memorial Park Road.
    The shooting happened about 7 p.m. after a man entered the restaurant demanding money, Lancaster County Sheriff Barry Faile said during a press conference Friday morning.

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  • Edenmoor sale means extra cash for schools

    Reece Murphy
    rmurphy@thelancasternews.com
    The sale of troubled Indian Land residential development Edenmoor has resulted in a financial boon for Lancaster County School District, school board members learned during Tuesday night’s monthly board meeting.
    The sale of the 850-acre development last month after years in limbo meant the county collected on more than $8.7 million in outstanding and current property taxes, penalties and assessments accrued between 2008 and 2010.

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  • Man wins $100k

    Man wins $100k
    Phillips bought ticket at IL station
    Reece Murphy
    rmurphy@thelancasternews.com
    A stop at an Indian Land convenience store turned lucky for a Concord, N.C., man last month – $100,000 worth of luck, to be exact.
    James Phillips, 27, said he was on his way to help his dad, Jim Phillips of Van Wyck, with yard work Oct. 26 when he stopped to buy a $5 Cold Hard Cash lottery ticket at the Indian Land Amoco at the corner of Charlotte Highway and River Road.

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  • School board to finalize policy regarding restraint and seclusion

    Think of the terms "restraint and seclusion" and you wouldn't be faulted if images of unruly prisoners, shackles and solitary confinement came to mind.
    While those images may be realistic in a law-enforcement situation, for schools, the term is much more nuanced.
    In an educational environment, restraint and seclusion describe techniques that seek to balance the need to stop disturbed or agitated students from hurting themselves or others, while doing the least harm possible to the students.

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  • County discusses nonprofit tenants

    Jesef Williams
    jwilliams@thelancasternews.com
     The fate of two well-known nonprofit agencies was front and center Monday as Lancaster County Council discussed their respective housing situations.
    Council held a required public hearing during the early part of Monday's meeting for anyone to share concerns about plans to lease part of the county's Covenant Street property to Lancaster County Red Cross.
    The county is buying the building from the city of Lancaster. It will be the future home of Lancaster County Emergency Management.

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  • Report: Woman hits girl

    Jesef Williams
    jwilliams@thelancasternews.com
    Multiple agencies are looking into an incident in which a woman reportedly assaulted a girl at Palmetto Place Apartments on Pardue Street.
    A man waved down a police officer Nov. 3 after witnessing an assault about 5:30 p.m. that day, according to a Lancaster Police Department incident report.
    The man said he saw a 51-year-old woman exit her home in the 700 block of Pardue Street and chase the girl into the grassy area between the apartment and the road.

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  • Driver hits telephone pole, runs away

    Warrants have been issued for a man who drove his car into the yard of a Lancaster home and knocked down a telephone pole.
    The commotion began shortly after 1 p.m. Oct. 29 as police were called to a home in the 1200 block of Gladstone Road about a car accident.
    According to a police department incident report, a white Ford Mustang was speeding on Gladstone Road when it drove off the road into a yard and struck a telephone pole.

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  • BHS hoops tourney to tip off play

     

    The Lancaster County high school basketball season opens with plenty of hoopla Saturday at Buford High School.

    The fourth annual Jackets Preseason Invitational, which feaures all four county schools at the BHS, tips off Saturday afternoon.

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