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Today's News

  • Bobcats end IL postseason run

    Seneca halted Indian Land High School’s postseason baseball hopes with a 3-0 win over the Warriors at the Bobcats’ field on Wednesday.
    Seneca, which defeated Indian Land, 13-6 Saturday in the double-elimination Class AAA Upper State title round, blanked the Warriors to end their season.
    The 15-8 Bobcats, the defending Class AAA Upstate champs, scored two runs in the fourth and a single run in the fifth to take the win.
    A Jack Fassino double opened what proved to be Seneca’s winning rally in the bottom of the fourth.

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  • Column: ‘Content farms’ are undermining true journalism

    In one of my darkest moments, I considered entering the content-writing market.
    I even reached out to a company and they offered me an assignment. They said 1,500 words in 48 hours on a topic I knew nothing about, complete with multiple interviews over the weekend. I told them no.
    One, there was simply no way I could line up all the interviews. Two, I’m an extremely fast writer, but two days for a 1,500-word assignment is insane.

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  • Column: 1st Amendment, too, is under assault

    I read with amusement John P. Baker’s satirical guest column in last Wednesday’s Lancaster News. (Mr. Baker, an NRA supporter, proposed that if discussing curtailment of Second Amendment rights is appropriate, why not restrict the First Amendment?)
    However, after thinking about it, I concluded that his satire may have exposed something more sinister than he intended.  

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  • IL Walmart adding home delivery

    Whether you need a carton of eggs or a lawnmower, your local Walmart is gearing up to serve you in a way it never has before.

    Starting May 17, the Indian Land Walmart, located at 10048 Charlotte Highway, will become the first store in South Carolina to offer home-delivery for nearly everything the retailer sells, said Heidi Welch, assistant manager of e-commerce.

    The only exceptions? Alcohol and apparel. Aside from that, the store will deliver groceries and anything else it has in stock – no matter how big or small, according to Welch.

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  • Lancaster man charged with attempted murder

    A Lancaster man was charged with attempted murder after a domestic dispute broke out Monday afternoon among family members on Antler Road.
    Darrell Montrey Mingo, 25, was charged with attempted murder and possession of a firearm during the commission of a violent crime.
    According to Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Doug Barfield, Mingo was in the driver’s seat of his Mazda pickup when he began arguing with his uncle and fired once out of the passenger window.

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  • Lancaster man dies in strange road incident

    Landmark News Service

    A 39-year-old Lancaster man died in a bizarre incident on U.S. 21 in Chester County early Monday.
    According to the Chester County Coroner’s Office, the man shot himself while driving about 8 a.m., then crossed the centerline and collided with a logging truck heading the opposite direction.
    The man’s name was not immediately released.

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  • Another growth spurt for Van Wyck

    The little town of Van Wyck has grown a little bit bigger.
    In a unanimous vote, minus council member Xavier Kee who was absent, the Van Wyck Town Council on Monday agreed to voluntarily annex 38 more properties to the recently created town.
    With the vote, the rural municipality created late last year as an antidote to the possible incorporation of adjacent, urbanized Indian Land, is now nearly 9.5 square miles, according to Mayor Sean Corcoran and council member Richard Vaughan.

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  • 82 USCL grads cross the finish line

    Karen Young, 71, was smiling ear to ear as she accepted her degree from USC Lancaster Dean Walt Collins on Saturday – the oldest of 82 grads to take the stage.

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  • Gonze Twitty, 99, stood up for civil rights, poor farmers

    Gonze Lee Twitty Sr. – a Democratic Party and local NAACP stalwart, a champion of black voting rights, and a tireless advocate for poor and black farmers – died Saturday in Lancaster. He was 99.

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  • Mosley captures Cauthen Motors Renegade Rumble

    Lancaster Motor Speedway action Saturday night was wild  and crazy.

    The top race was in the Renegade Division with the Cauthen Motors Renegade Rumble paying $2,000 to win.

    Andrew Baker and Travis Mosley were on the front row, with  Josh Langley and Tyler Love on row two.

    The third row featured Brandy Baker and Brady Kirk, with Andy Hodges and Andy Blackwood on the fourth row.

    Any of those drivers can win anywhere in the Renegade Division at any track.

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