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A Charlotte man has been arrested in connection with the death of a woman whose body was found Oct. 19 off Doby’s Bridge Road in Fort Mill.
Mahmood Amjad Bhatti was arrested Oct. 25 and charged with the murder of 23-year-old Natalie Nicole Merrick and her unborn child. Bhatti and Merrick had been in a long-term relationship, according to a statement from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department.

KERSHAW – Nancy Watson wants the abandoned Springs Industries Kershaw Plant property on the north side of

Backtracking on Linda Blackmon’s back pay, the Lancaster City Council denied her request for a $6,750 payment from the city Tuesday night, after which she declared she “wasn’t thinking straight” when she cast the deciding vote two weeks earlier to give herself the money.
That Oct. 10 vote appeared to violate state ethics law, which prohibits public officials from voting on matters that “affect their own economic interests.”

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In the weeks before he died, Ron Hinson Jr.’s habit got so bad he was shooting up pain pills in his hospital room, his mother recalls.
She said he picked the lock on the sharps container, stole used needles and had a friend smuggle in Opana pills, which he melted down and injected.
“He went through pure hell,” said Beth Morrison.

A Lancaster woman died in a single-car accident late Sunday night when her car ran off S.C. 200 at Hardee Lane, about 4 miles north of Great Falls.
The Lancaster County Coroner’s Office identified the victim as 24-year-old Kasey Pepper. An autopsy was scheduled for Tuesday.

INDIAN LAND – Lancaster County snagged another corporate headquarters Tuesday, as The Blythe Co. announced it is expanding into South Carolina, bringing $4 million in capital investment, creating 21 new jobs and tripling its workforce.
Blythe, which distributes and services industrial parts to natural gas, oil and chemical companies, will build in the 300-acre Bailes Ridge Corporate Park near the intersection of S.C. 160 and Old Bailes Road.

David Kellin
For The Lancaster News

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The Lancaster County Library and the county DSS office will not be moving to the vacant Springs Block downtown, after property owner Humana refused to allow environmental tests on the site that would be made public.
County council had been exploring the option to relocate the library to a larger facility, and part of the process was what’s called a Phase 1 Environmental Site Assessment.
But Humana wouldn’t agree to the assessment, which would check historical records of the property and include a site inspection.