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A Sun City Carolina Lakes resident has been charged with vandalizing streets inside the Indian Land community.
Lancaster County deputies arrested Bradley Keith Munger, 64, Aug. 6 on two counts of malicious injury to property. Munger is a non-owner resident of the 55-and-older community who reportedly lived with his girlfriend in the 55000 block of Derringer Avenue.
The charges stem from a July 30 incident in which Munger allegedly threw cans of paint in the road at the front gate on Del Webb Boulevard and Sun City Boulevard.

While trying to jump-start their car Wednesday, Eric and Jeri Sullivan found a surprise under the hood – a 4-foot timber rattlesnake coiled atop the motor.

In a decision that didn’t seem to please anybody, Lancaster County Council passed second reading of an ordinance Monday night that would add a $75 stormwater fee to the tax bills of homeowners in the north end of the county.
The fee would also impact commercial property, varying by size.
The fee, which requires one more council vote, would raise $1.57 million in the first year, to be used to start a new county department that would address stormwater issues.  

Sen. Lindsey Graham’s ears perked up Wednesday morning when he learned that Kershaw officials could use some federal help getting a railroad spur to the town’s new 122-acre industrial park.

More than 12,000 students began the new academic year at the Lancaster County School District’s 22 schools on Thursday.

A man was shot early Tuesday in a home-invasion robbery at his home on Clinton Avenue, and police are looking for information about three suspects in the case.
About 4:20 a.m., first responders arrived at a medical call in the 400 block of Clinton Avenue and found that the man had been shot, according to a statement from the Lancaster Police Department.
The victim, whose identity was not released, was in stable condition Tuesday at Springs Memorial Hospital with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound, the statement said.

State Sen. Greg Gregory has been appointed to a bipartisan committee that will investigate the scuttled nuclear reactor construction project in Fairfield County.
The Lancaster Republican is one of 12 senators selected last week by Senate President Pro Tem Hugh Leatherman. The committee is co-chaired by Majority Leader Shane Massey (R-Edgefield) and Minority Leader Nikki Setzler (D-Lexington).
Gregory called the turmoil that surrounds the decision to abandon the expansion of the V.C. Summer plant a debacle with plenty of blame to share.

Election filing closed Tuesday in the nonpartisan Heath Springs and Kershaw town council races set for Nov. 7.
Five candidates filed to run in Heath Springs, including three for mayor. The town has a mayor and four at-large council seats.
Mayor Ann Taylor and longtime council members Ted Sowell and Mark Bridges announced last month they would not seek new terms.
Taylor has been mayor since 1991. Bridges has 33 years on council, and Sowell has served three terms.

Barry Faile will lead the S.C. Sheriffs’ Association for the next year, the first Lancaster County sheriff ever elected president of the group.

The Lancaster County Library has canceled its eclipse-watching events scheduled for next Monday because 1,000 pairs of eclipse glasses it bought from Amazon.com have been recalled, with too little time to get new glasses that are guaranteed to be safe.