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Lancaster Police Chief Scott Grant strolls past the numbered doors of Carriage Inn rooms, sniffing for marijuana fumes escaping through the air-conditioning vents.

COLUMBIA – The National Weather Service has issued a tornado watch for Lancaster and seven other South Carolina counties until 10 p.m. today, Sept. 1.
Other counties in the watch area are Cherokee, Chester, Chesterfield, Marlboro, Spartanburg, Union and York.                 
A tornado watch means that conditions may become favorable for a tornado to develop.   
 

The National Weather Service in Columbia has issued a severe thunderstorm warning for the southern portion of Lancaster County until 3:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 1.
At 2:33 p.m., National Weather Service Doppler radar indicated a severe thunderstorm capable of producing damaging winds in excess of 70 mph about 8 miles east of Winnsboro and moving east/northeast toward Lancaster at an estimated 40 mph.
Hail damage to vehicles and tree damage is expected. The weather service said wind damage is also likely to mobile homes roofs, and outbuildings.

The Indian Land schools campus will serve as the new location of the Indian Land Fall Festival on Oct. 28.
At The Reservation football stadium, there will be a kids’ play zone, sports zone and large music stage. The training field on the grounds will host the community, farm and faith zones with vendors and churches. The VFW Car Show will take over the student parking lot beside the high school.

WINNSBORO – A 32-year-old man was sentenced to 40 years in prison Thursday after jurors convicted him of shooting his girlfriend in the face while her two young children watched.
Larry Cornish was found guilty in the attempted murder of Ashley Mickle after a three-day trial prosecuted by Assistant Sixth Circuit Solicitor Croom Hunter.

Don Worthington
Landmark News Service

A Chesterfield County school bus operator was charged with driving under the influence this week after her blood-alcohol level was measured at nearly four times the legal limit.

The quest for much-needed space has Lancaster County officials eyeing a plan that would move the county library and S.C. Department of Social Services to the Springs Block in downtown Lancaster.
“We like seeing people downtown,” said Lancaster County Council Chairman Steve Harper. “It’s definitely a great idea.”
The plan was included in a capital-needs report reviewed at Monday night’s county council meeting.   

Prices at local gas pumps have jumped as much as 40 cents a gallon this week as Hurricane Harvey’s 50-plus inches of rain swamped South Texas and closed oil refineries in the Houston area, and shortages are possible.
The worst rain event in U.S. history has jolted gas markets just before the busy Labor Day travel weekend, and local and national fuel-industry experts say it’s uncertain how long the disruption to supplies will last, or how high prices will go at the pumps.

Volunteers from the Northern S.C. Chapter of the Red Cross are headed to the Gulf Coast to assist victims of Hurricane Harvey, while other local citizens are raising money and collecting relief items.