Local News

No one was injured in a fire that claimed a family’s mobile home Monday morning.

The fire, which severely damaged a doublewide mobile home in the 300 block of Gills Creek Drive, first caught the attention of a nearby resident Monday. 

“It was about 8:40 a.m. when it was called in,” said Lancaster County Fire Marshal Stephen Blackwelder. “A neighbor saw the house across the street from them with fire coming out of it.”

A Lancaster man led police officers on a foot chase moments after he bit a bar manager in the hand, according to a Lancaster Police Department incident report. 

Ronnie James Dunn, 20, 2007 Great Falls Highway, was charged Feb. 27 with assault and battery, malicious injury to property and disorderly conduct. 

Officers with the Lancaster Police Department came to the Carriage Inn Motel on North Main Street after 11 p.m. Feb. 27 in response to a call about someone hanging from the back of a moving pick-up truck. 

A Lancaster native who died in the line of duty was remembered as Gov. Nikki Haley signed a measure into law that aims to protect the state’s law enforcement officers.

On March 6, Haley signed the Blue Alert bill on the Statehouse steps in Columbia. Her action allows for the creation of an alert system that will inform the public when an officer is injured, abducted or killed.

It will be similar to the Amber Alert, which issues notifications when a child goes missing.

Nobody who works at a newspaper ever has an original idea. What we do, is “usurp” from each other.

I can prove it. The next time you’re on vacation or an extended trip out of town, find a grocery store that has a lot of paper boxes loaded with various local newspapers or a mall with an old-fashioned newsstand.

If you see someone come up, and stare at the wide array of papers available, then fish change from their pocket or pocketbooks to buy one copy of each fish wrapper, I’d wager that person isn’t bored.