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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.
“These payments are incredibly important to the taxpayers of South Carolina, because they mean the tobacco companies are repaying the state for some of the costs related to smoking,” Wilson said.

A Lancaster man turned himself in to authorities May 4 on charges that he fished checks and cash out of a business mail slot last month.

Phillip Perry Craig of McIlwain Road in Lancaster was charged with second-degree burglary after he was identified on surveillance video from local business Lancaster Financial.

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.
Under the new policy, officers living within a 30-mile radius of the police department will be able to take their assigned vehicles home with them. The previous policy applied only within the borders of Lancaster County.
The vote was 5-1 at Tuesday night’s council meeting, with Linda Blackmon dissenting.

Hope, as the saying goes, springs eternal.

A Lancaster County School District instructional assistant was struck by lightning at about 4 p.m. Friday, while on a field trip with Buford Middle School.

She is in good spirits and stable condition, according to BMS Principal Sheri Wells, who has spoken with the assistant.

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. of Lexington. His family said Friday that he had recently moved to Kershaw.

Buford softball players are being forced to choose between going to their prom and playing in the Upper State Playoffs championship game tonight, because the S.C. High School League will not push their game to Saturday.

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Firefighters responded to a house fire at 220 Eastview Court about 10 a.m.