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A Lancaster man has been arrested in connection with the shooting of a 26-year-old dropped off at Springs Memorial Hospital last Thursday.
Shibree Ikee Truesdale, 25, was arrested Friday and charged with attempted murder, possession of a firearm during the commission of a violent crime and possession with intent to distribute marijuana.

COLUMBIA – The S.C. House passed a bill Tuesday that substantially cuts fines for littering in the Palmetto State.
Rep. Chandra Dillard, (D-Greenville) pushed for the reduction.
Instead of a $450 fine for tossing less than 15 pounds of litter, the bill passed Tuesday drops the fine for littering to $25 to $100. However, it increases some of the penalties for illegal dumping, or large quantities of trash.
“I am open to anything that would start making our highways and byways look a little better,” Dillard told The State newspaper.

The girlfriend of a man charged last year with dumping paint on streets at Sun City Carolina Lakes now says the pair have received written threats from a self-proclaimed vigilante group at the Indian Land retirement community.
According to a Jan. 25 sheriff’s office incident report, SCCL resident Letha Hunnicutt reported she feared for her and boyfriend Bradley Munger’s lives after receiving several threatening letters from someone claiming to represent “The Sun City Carolina Lakes Vigilantees” (sic).

This is shaping up to be a banner year for local road improvements.
Lancaster County is getting half of the S.C. Department of Transportation road projects slated for the Catawba region  – Lancaster, York, Union and Chester counties.
DOT ranks the projects each year based on feedback from each county, with counties grouped by district.
And yes, a healthy dose of politics usually plays into the decision, said County Administrator Steve Willis.

An argument landed a Lancaster man in the hospital Thursday night with gunshot wounds, though few details were available Friday.
Sheriff’s office spokesman Doug Barfield said deputies were called to the Springs Memorial Hospital emergency room around 10 p.m. about a 26-year-old man who’d been shot twice.
Barfield said the man’s wounds were not life-threatening, but investigators were only able to get a limited amount of information from him before he was transferred to another hospital.

Residents are breathing easy in eight of the nine Indian Land subdivisions that received a county ultimatum two months ago about the deadline for getting their streets accepted into the county maintenance system.
Not so in Reid Pointe, where nearly 80 percent of the streets are in “desperate need of repair,” County Attorney John Weaver said at Monday’s county council meeting.

Lancaster County might join other local governments across the country in suing 24 opioid manufacturers and distributors to hold them accountable for their roles in the national drug crisis.
“It’s epidemic everywhere,” said county council Chairman Steve Harper, noting there were 25 drug-overdose deaths in Lancaster County last year.

Amir and Rashid Ansari, the youngest of four brothers, were inseparable growing up in Michigan. Two years apart, they have always been mistaken for twins.

The Indian Land incorporation vote will be held March 27.
News of the special election date came Friday, more than two years after Voters for a Town of Indian Land rolled out its incorporation campaign.
The three Indian Land incorporation election commissioners agreed to have county elections officials organize the vote for Tuesday, March 27, instead of a Saturday, April 7, date considered earlier in the week.