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No charges will be filed in the death of Jerrell White following a six-month investigation, the S.C. Law Enforcement Division announced Thursday.
White, a 22-year-old college student, disappeared early July 5 after an Independence Day party at a Pleasant Road house in the Primus community. His body was recovered four days later from a nearby pond.

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The Kershaw Town Council voted Monday to provide the Kershaw Community Park Council (KCPC) with $20,000 to help purchase equipment for a new playground at Stevens Park if the group can come up with the project’s total cost by May 1.
The playground is estimated to cost $425,000.
The town is providing $20,000 for four pieces of equipment.
“I want written confirmation from whoever is providing the funds by May 1,” Mayor Mark Dorman told KCPC representatives at Monday’s meeting.

KERSHAW – Reversing itself on turning Stevens Park over to the county, the town of K

A Lancaster County Detention Center guard was arrested Monday for supplying cell phones, marijuana and other contraband to prisoners.

Fire destroyed a house on West Shiloh Unity Road north of  Lancaster early Tuesday morning.
According to Lancaster County Fire Marshal Russell Rogers, the fire started in a rear bedroom and spread through the rest of the house.

Nearly 900 Lancaster County homes lost power Saturday night during frigid weather, some for several hours, after a car knocked down a power pole on Zion Road in Buford.
The accident happened shortly after 8:30 p.m. on Zion Road, near Old Pardue Road, nearly 3 miles northeast of Lancaster. According to Lance Cpl. Gary Miller with S.C. Highway Patrol, one vehicle was travelling west on Zion Road and hit the power pole, which caused another vehicle, which was heading east, to run into downed power lines.

Lancaster County experienced sub-20-degree lows for seven consecutive days, a harrowing cold snap that ended Monday morning.
By Tuesday afternoon, it felt downright springlike, with temperatures in the 60s and glorious sunshine.
The Charlotte office of the National Weather Service, which has been collecting data since 1878, matched our seven straight frigid nights, and said that tied for its fourth-longest below-20 cold snap on record. Columbia had six consecutive days, breaking its record of five.

First-term Republican Rep. Brandon Newton is running again for his District 45 seat in the S.C. House.
“Even though it seems like only yesterday that I was sworn into office, it is time to begin looking toward June and November,” Newton said Monday.