Two people were shot in Lancaster on Friday evening, and an armed robbery also occurred shortly afterward. A teen was shot while playing basketball with friends on Gay Street about 7 p.m. Feb. 25. They were playing at the basketball court on Gay Street when they heard gunfire and the teen was hit. Multiple shell casings were found. Shortly after officers arrived at the basketball court, they discovered another person had been grazed by a bullet while driving down S.C 9 Bypass East near KFC ..read more

A Lancaster County School District substitute teacher has been arrested for touching a student in a sexual manner. Austin Shane Truesdale, 24, of Heath Springs, was arrested by the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday, Feb. 24 and charged with criminal sexual conduct with a minor, third degree, and sexual exploitation of a minor, second degree ..read more

The recent decision by Lancaster City Council to pay an outside consultant to help it find a new police chief isn’t sitting well with some city residents. On Feb. 8, council voted to retain recruiter Art Davis of Baker Tilly US to conduct a national search for the city’s next police chief. The firm is getting paid $24,500 to conduct the search. The city police chief’s job has been vacant since May 2021 when council voted 4-2 to fire Scott Grant ..read more

Dr. April Williams has always loved the library, but didn’t realize at an early age that it would be her career. Williams, who has been with the Lancaster County Library system since 2013, has worked in all the county’s branches. She has been a manager since 2016 and was recently named the new county library director. Williams started in her new role Feb. 14 ..read more

A member of a landscaping crew working at Indian Land Intermediate School found a gun earlier this week outside of the school. The gun was a .40-caliber black pistol, which had been lying in the bushes since last year. “We found out it had been stolen during an auto break-in,” said Doug Barfield, Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office spokesman ..read more

A Lancaster man led North Carolina police on a low-speed chase in a stolen dump truck before being arrested earlier this week. James Brett Catoe, 38, was arrested by Cabarrus County Sheriff’s Office on Feb. 21, and charged with several crimes. including three counts of resisting public officers, eluding arrest and possession of a stolen vehicle. The 30-ton green and yellow 2019 John Deere construction tractor vehicle had been stolen Sunday, Feb. 20, from a site in the 100 block of Waxhaw Village Road in Lancaster. The vehicle was valued at $450,000 ..read more

KERSHAW - The Town of Kershaw is in talks to possibly amend some of its ordinance to establish development standards for group homes or residential care homes. Kershaw Town Council talked about the issue some at its Monday, Feb. 21 meeting, but has tossed the idea back to the Lancaster County Planning Commission to work out the details. The town is looking to amend the Unified Development Ordinances (UDO) concerning uses in what is currently zone as R-6 and R-15 residential districts ..read more

A Lancaster resident has written a book on homelessness, based on his work with people living in Boston and Charlotte. Bill Selvitelle has lived in Lancaster for the past three years having moved here from the Boston area. He moved down to be close to family who live in the Ballantyne area of Charlotte. In 2018, Selvitelle started helping the homeless in Boston by creating what he calls kindness bundles, which he describes as one gallon Zip lock bags filled with snacks, personal care items and whatever he can fit in there ..read more

By Jaycie Smith/USC Lancaster student An all-access tour with a reveal of “exciting news” will kick off the reopening of the Lancaster County Historic Courthouse and Museum from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 27. And everyone in the county should be there, said Joe Grier, chair of the Lancaster County Historical Commission. “To tell you the truth… the Historic Courthouse is the best-kept secret in Lancaster County,” he said ..read more

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is expected to relax COVID-19 mask guidelines by looking at factors related to hospital capacity and coronavirus admissions instead of simply looking at case counts. That loosening was expected to happen as early as Friday, Feb. 25, according to the Associated Press. However, the new CDC recommendations for going maskless in indoor public spaces was not available before press time ..read more