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Today's News

  • Bruins hold off Trojans in OT win

    This time overtime was a better time for the Lancaster Bruins.

    LHS, on the road at Region III-AAAA foe Northwestern, prevailed in a 63-61 overtime win over the upset-minded Trojans in Rock Hill on Friday night.

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  • Wildfires a major concern in South Carolina

    The statewide late winter/early spring wildfire season is still about a month away but the S.C. Forestry Commission has launched a safety campaign so those planning to burn can take the appropriate steps.

    The seasonal outlook for the next few months indicates an increasing potential for high wildfire activity for most of the Palmetto State.

    Although it may not seem like it due to recent rainfall, precipitation amounts for this portion of the Piedmont are already about 1.2 inches below normal.

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  • Register your Relay for Life team today

    The American Cancer Society's Relay for Life of Lancaster County gives everyone in the community a chance to help the organization save lives and create a world with less cancer and more birthdays. 

    Register your team today by visiting RelayForLife.org or by calling 1-800-227-2345.

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  • Uncontrolled target shooting in residential areas dangerous

    Editor’s note: Indian Land resident Colin Wilson sent this letter to the members of Lancaster County Council regarding target shooting in residential areas.
    Ihave read that you are considering an ordinance concerning residents shooting on their private property.
    I am a resident of Indian Land, a longtime National Rifle Associaion member, an avid skeet, trap, rifle and pistol shooter, as is my wife. We live on McFalls Drive off Carolina Acres Road in Indian Land. More than half of our neighbors are NRA members, hunters and shooters.

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  • To carry or not to carry

    Jesef Williams
    jwilliams@thelancasternews.com
    Crystal Roney keeps a pistol on her bedroom night stand.
    During road trips, it’s in her car’s glove compartment. And now, she wants to have it on her body at all times.
    When Roney moved into a new house about two years ago, she decided to take a gun-safety class, given that she’d be living alone.
    But after hearing the news of recent murders, assaults and other violent crimes, Roney wants to take things a step further by obtaining a concealed-weapons permit.

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  • Spelling champ thought she was given trick word

    Reece Murphy
    rmurphy@thelancasternews.com
    This year’s Lancaster County School District spelling bee was a nail-biter in a way only those who have witnessed such academic competitions can fully understand.
    The scene: Afternoon of Jan. 26. Fifteen of the county’s best elementary and middle school spellers on stage at the University of South Carolina Lancaster’s Stevens Auditorium.
    The prize: Recognition as the district’s best speller and a chance to compete in the 58th Charlotte Observer Regional Spelling Bee.

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  • American hero was a humble man

    By Michele Roberts
    For The Lancaster News
    A local man who recently died has been hailed an American hero.
    Lancaster resident Carl Gandy died Jan. 25 at the age of 88. During his life he was a business owner, father, grandfather and great-grandfather. Gandy served in the Army during World War II. As a member of the 4th Infantry Division, he and his comrades pushed their way across the French countryside, along with other Allied forces on their way to Berlin.

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  • Local woman sexually assaulted in Chester

    Jesef Williams
    jwilliams@thelancasternews.com
    Lancaster police have the names of two people accused of robbing and sexually assaulting a Lancaster woman last week in Chester County.
    The woman, 33, was driven to the Springs Memorial Hospital emergency room Saturday afternoon to be treated after she was reportedly assaulted by two men, according to a Lancaster Police Department incident report.
    A hospital nurse told an officer that the woman said she was pistol whipped and that the men then used the gun to sexually assault her, the report said.

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  • Officers investigate bomb threat

    Christopher Sardelli
    csardelli@thelancasternews.com
    A string of bomb threats called into an Indian Land business over the last two weeks have authorities searching for the culprit.

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  • Woman robbed on Pleasant Hill Street

    Jesef Williams
    jwilliams@thelancasternews.com
    A Lancaster woman told police she was forced to the ground and robbed by two people early Saturday morning on Pleasant Hill Street.
    The woman, 40, was walking in the area of Pleasant Hill and St. Paul streets shortly after midnight Saturday when she was approached by a man and a woman, according to a Lancaster Police Department incident report.
    She said they forced her to the ground. The man then took $40 and a lottery ticket from her rear pants pocket, the report said.

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