The Lancaster News

Dropping a set of keys while running from a police officer on May 10 proved costly for a Lancaster man when $7,500 worth of drugs, a firearm and cash were found inside his car when the key-fob alarm was activated.

The Lancaster News won eight awards, including three first places, in the annual competition among the 83 newspapers owned by Landmark Community Newspapers Inc.
First-place honors went to reporter Reece Murphy for his four-day October series on the accelerating opioid crisis.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

The front of Lancaster’s Walmart has become a construction zone, as the company gears up to test the idea of far more self-checkout lanes and far fewer that use cashiers.

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Lancaster County will receive $33,613 in Federal Emergency Management Agency funding to supplement emergency food and shelter programs.
Deborah Boulware, United Way of Lancaster County’s executive director, said the county has been receiving an annual FEMA allotment for many years.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

IRMO – As Indian Land High School Principal David Shamble prepared for the Class AAA girls state championship post-game awards ceremonies, he clutched the state runner-up silver medals.
He said he wished he was going to present gold medals, like the Lady Warriors won last spring, but he wasn’t disappointed in the ILHS girls soccer team.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

The state is receiving millions of dollars as part of its yearly share of settlement funds stemming from the anti-smoking wars of the 1990s.
S.C. Attorney General Alan Wilson announced the state has secured $81.1 million in its annual share of funds under the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement (MSA), approved by the courts in 1998.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Lancaster City Council has approved the city police department’s request to increase the geographic area where officers are allowed to take their police vehicles home with them at the end of their shifts.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

The hunt was still on late Friday for the shooter in Thursday’s Kershaw killing, and authorities were releasing almost no information about the case.
The man who died was identified by the Lancaster County Coroner’s Office as 30-year-old Vincent Barry Lambert Jr.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

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