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If you were lucky this week, your only exposure to the excruciating temperatures was a series of coat-hugging sprints between a car and a warm building.

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An inmate was stabbed Tuesday during an assault at Kershaw Correctional Institution in Lancaster County.
The incident happened about 12:30 p.m., said S.C. Department of Corrections spokesman Jeffrey Taillon,
“The inmate was taken offsite for medical treatment,” Taillon said.
The victim’s name and information on his condition were not released, but Taillon noted he was returned to KCI the same day.

A women and children’s warming center opened Tuesday at 1232 Trestle Ln. in Lancaster, just in time for this week’s big freeze, but no guests showed up the first two nights.
“It takes a couple of days to catch on,” said Deborah Boulware, director of Lancaster County United Way, which is spearheading the initiative.
The center will be open from 6 p.m. to 8 a.m. daily through mid-March, Boulware said. Meals are served and security guards, provided through the Salvation Army, stay through the night.

Sheriff Barry Faile is charged with protecting all the citizens of Lancaster County, but when it comes to new goals for 2018, he’s targeting senior citizens.
The sheriff’s office already has a program in place to trace elderly residents with cognitive disorders prone to wandering, but Faile said one of his major goals this year is to make sure senior citizens have more information and assistance to keep them safe.

Utility giant Dominion Energy of Virginia announced Wednesday it will buy SCANA Corp. for $14.6 billion, as fallout continues from the abandoned V.C. Summer Nuclear Station expansion in Fairfield County.
One of the terms of the deal is providing $1.3 billion in refunds to 600,000-plus S.C. Electric & Gas power customers who experienced nine rate increases to partially bankroll the defunct project. SCANA is the parent company of SCE&G.

Blistering cold and high winds gripped Lancaster County Thursday, extending a weeklong spell of frigid weather, and there’s no sign of a letup until Mon

A 25-year-old Lancaster woman has been charged in the Dec. 18 beating death of her boyfriend’s 3-year-old daughter.

Kayla Marie Cook was charged with homicide by child abuse in the killing of Lilly Schroeder, whom first responders picked up at their home, 418 Heath Circle in Lancaster.

Lancaster County is under winter weather advisory until 10 p.m. Wednesday.
The National Weather Service issued the advisory at 9:57 a.m., which also includes much of the midlands of South Carolina. The entire coast of the state is under a winter storm warning.
Light snow is expected with possible accumulations of up to 1 inch of snow in the southern and eastern portions of county.