Today's News

Kamaron White is optimistic about starting classes Thursday at the University of South Carolina at Lancaster.

The 2008 Lancaster High School graduate said the idea of extensive reading, in-depth reports and tight deadlines became a little easier to absorb over the last three weeks. That's because she was a part of USCL's Early Start program, which helps recent high school graduates transition to college.

FORT LAWN – A Fort Lawn man twice convicted of rape is in the Chester County Detention Center awaiting a mental evaluation that might lead to his classification as a sexual predator.

Kenneth Jerome White, 40, of 5773 Willowbrook Road, Fort Lawn, turned himself in Aug. 6 and will be held there until the evaluation is done by the state Department of Mental Health.

You may have heard that the University of South Carolina at Lancaster will have a baseball team, the Lancers, which will start play this fall.

But there are other new programs coming to USCL.

Here's a look at them:

– Meeting Educators At Lunch, or MEALs, which is a new take-a-professor-to-lunch program designed to enhance instructor-student interactions in an informal setting over lunch at local restaurants.

An 85-year-old Great Falls man who was involved in an accident with an ambulance last month in Lancaster County has died.

James Marion Baker died Aug. 10 from brain injuries he suffered in the two-vehicle wreck July 26 on S.C. 200, according to the Mecklenburg County Medical Examiner's Office.

Baker was driving a 2003 four-door Ford that was struck on its driver's side by a Ford ambulance driven by a 29-year-old Lancaster County woman, said Lance Cpl. Josef Robinson of the S.C. Highway Patrol.