Today's News

KERSHAW – Kershaw officials expect renovations to begin soon on the building the will house the town’s CareNet office.
Town Administrator Tony Starnes gave Town Council an update about the process during its Jan. 17 meeting.  
CareNet, which provides health services to the uninsured and under-insured in Lancaster County, plans to open an additional office in Kershaw at 212 E. Marion St. The vacant building has to be renovated to function as a health center.

The local economy followed an interesting trend that has seen a drop in the state’s jobless rate despite increases in most counties.
Lancaster County’s unemployment rate for December was 13.4 percent, a jump from the 12.9 percent rate in November, according to numbers released Tuesday by the S.C. Department of Employment and Workforce.
The county had the state’s 13th highest unemployment rate last month. In December 2010, the county posted 15.6 percent, which was seventh in the state at the time.

Tiffini Mitchell walked into the Lancaster Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine office Monday morning and turned right around in a matter of minutes.
Mitchell, a rep with pharmaceutical company Pfizer, visits the Meeting Street  orthopaedics office weekly to promote her company’s medication. But she wasn’t able to market anything Monday because her clients didn’t have electricity.
That business complex, at 901 W. Meeting St., was among the many buildings in Lancaster that went without power Monday morning.

Police say a Lancaster man is lucky to be alive after he was shot in the back outside a nightclub last week.
The shooting happened after 1:15 a.m. Jan. 20, outside of Self Control Brothers Club, at 907 S. Market St. According to a Lancaster Police Department incident report, officers were notified by Springs Memorial Hospital emergency room personnel as they treated the 22-year-old man for a single gunshot wound.