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Chris Smith’s bout with homelessness began when he was evicted from a mobile home he was renting.

A crisp autumn breeze bit at any exposed skin and kicked up fallen leaves under a clear blue sky, the perfect backdrop for Old Glory and the multiple service branch flags fluttering Friday at the Buford Battleground Monu

If you want to know what it means to be a hero, talk to Vietnam vet Edward Harris.
Harris, 69, will quickly tell you he isn’t one of them, though the former Army sergeant has a Bronze Star and a pair of Purple Hearts from the year he served as a 9th Infantry M-60 machine gunner in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta.

Indian Land High School honored area veterans Friday during its annual Veterans Day breakfast and ceremony.
This year’s event paid tribute to 75 local servicemen and women representing all five branches of the armed services and most every war and armed conflict back to World War II.

Kayla Vaughn and Mark Manicone

The Lancaster News

After a six-hour armed standoff at a Ruth Street mobile home Thursday night, authorities tear-gassed the place and stormed in, finding the occupant hiding beneath the floor.

The incident ended about 9 p.m. with the suspect arrested and no one hurt.

Miles Gardner has pulled more skeletons out of the closet with “The Claret Book of Murder and Mayhem in Lancaster, Kershaw and Chesterfield Counties,” the third installment of his “Murder and Mayhem” trilogy.
The Lancaster Historical Commission is sponsoring a book signing at the Historic Courthouse on Main Street from 2:30-5 p.m. this Sunday.

Sam Page, a former Buford High School head football coach who remained a big part of the school’s athletic family for three decades, died Thursday. He was 75.
Page, whose health had declined in recent years, died in his sleep at his home in the Buford community.