Today's News

The Lancaster County School District is waiting for word from the S.C. Department of Education on whether it will adopt a national set of common core standards, but moving ahead with plans to implement them.

The Common Core State Standards Initiative is a state-led, nonpartisan effort of the National Governors Center for Best Practices and the Council of Chief State School Officers to set national English language arts (ELA) and mathematics standards.

DHEC Press Release

October marks the beginning of Senior Vaccination Season. From now until March, people of all ages are susceptible to influenza. Data by Flu.gov show that each year about 200,000 people in the United States are hospitalized and an average of 23,600 people die of seasonal flu-related causes. 

As high as 90 percent of the deaths occur in people age 65 and older. Most of these deaths could be prevented with a simple vaccine.

A man hit in the head with a wrench during an attack was later arrested for assault. 

Lancaster police officers responded shortly before 1:30 a.m. Oct. 15 about an attack that happened at a house in the 300 block of North Hughes Street.

At the scene, officers spoke with a man who was described as intoxicated and “bleeding profusely” from his head, according to a police department incident report. 

Susie Laney Sowell West, 92

Susie Laney Sowell West, 92, passed away Thursday, Oct. 20, 2011, at Presbyterian Hospital in Charlotte. She was born November 23, 1918, in Union County, N.C., a daughter of the late Goodman Frank Laney and Lula Josey Laney. Mrs. West was married to the late Dorch Lee Sowell and the late Walter “Pete” Blease West. She was a Charter Member of Liberty Freewill Baptist Church and was retired from J.P. Stevens in Great Falls.