Kershaw News

A Canadian company is searching for gold near the old Ridgeway mine, a large open pit operation that closed in the late 1990s after complaints about noise and pollution.

Steven Paul Barnett, 33, is charged with filing a false police report. Kershaw County deputies say that he falsely claimed that a man cut his face and robbed Stoy’s Store in Kershaw near the Lancaster-Kershaw county border while he was working there Tuesday.

A store clerk is in jail after making a false report that he was robbed and cut by an assailant, according to sheriff's deputies.

The state Senate will take up the budget this week . The $6.6 billion proposal includes a 3 percent raise for most state workers.