Lancaster County, SC | featured news

More than 550 people attended “My Black Is…,” a production of original skits, monologues and ch

COLUMBIA – The S.C. House has temporarily pulled the plug on the $37 million that SCANA gets each month for two nuclear reactors that will never generate the first kilowatt of electricity.
On Wednesday, the House voted 119-1 to drop the $27 per month fee that SCE&G electric customers are paying for a now-abandoned reactor project at V.C. Summer Nuclear Generating Station in Fairfield County. SCANA is the parent company of SCE&G.
Rep. Brandon Newton (R-Lancaster) said it was time for the legislature to take a stand on behalf of beleaguered ratepayers.

Trey Gowdy, who led the Benghazi investigation in the U.S. House that uncovered Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server, is getting out of politics.

An interaction between a sheriff’s deputy and former school board member James Brooks outside an Indian Land restaurant Jan. 18 led to drug charges against Brooks’ girlfriend, Laura Lee McManus.

The flu continues to clobber South Carolina, with another 30 people dying from it last week, nearly twice as many as the week before, the state Department of Health and Environmental Control reported.
Were any of those fatalities in Lancaster County? That’s not easy to figure out.
Springs Memorial Hospital will not say. It must report any flu deaths to DHEC, but the hospital will not release the information to the public.

Each year, Forbes Magazine ranks each NFL team to determine which has the most rabid fan base.
The Forbes pecking order is based on five criteria: