York News

Students are allowed by state law to miss up to 10 days of school per year, but 70 students in the graduating class of 2012 never missed a single one.

WEB EXCLUSIVE: Bluestar Silicones, a Chinese-owned, global integrated silicones supplier with U.S. headquarters in East Brunswick, N.J., opened a new manufacturing and R&D center in York, S.C., last month.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Wednesday that York and five other locations did not meet the criteria for closing.

The York County Council on Aging will issue free coupons this week to low-income people 60 and older that can be used to buy fresh produce at local participating farmers’ markets.

Six-year-old Mason "Baylee" Rose has for more than three years been battling leukemia.

Dennis Keith Harper - called "Kenny" almost all his life, who drives an electrical supply truck and has an 8-year-old daughter - never had a chance over the past two decades to give his class ring to his wife, Lynn, who has been called "Wendy" almost all her life.

Dennis Keith Harper - called "Kenny" almost all his life, who drives an electrical supply truck and has an 8-year-old daughter - never had a chance over the past two decades to give his class ring to his wife, Lynn, who has been called "Wendy" almost all her life.

On Sunday, Machin, the daughter of a World War I veteran, the aunt of an Operation Iraqi Freedom soldier and the ex-wife of a soldier in the Navy, took a vase of flowers and placed them aside a monument at Lakeview Memory Gardens in York.

Poor aim, a hacky sack and a bad temper landed Christopher Walden in jail a little over a year ago and made the Sharon native a ward of the state at age 16.

The annual York County Veterans Memorial Day weekend ceremony will be at 4 p.m. Sunday at Lakeview Memory Gardens on U.S. 321 between York and Clover.

Kenny Harper's 1981 York High School class ring was lost for 25 years before Jim Doncaster found it at Winthrop Lake.

Bill Hilton Jr., executive director of Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History in York, S.C., bands a tiny ruby-throated hummingbird Imagine having in your hand a tiny ruby-throated hummingbird, weighing only 0.07 to 0.21 ounces.

The public has several opportunities starting Thursday to meet the new executive director of York County's Culture and Heritage Museums.

The York County Republican Party will reopen candidate filing for York County Council District 3 Thursday for a half day.

Janis Lahrmer Martin, 45, from York, S.C., and 42-year-old Frederick Alphonso Nixon, from Kings Mountain, both face one charge of misdemeanor larceny in separate cases.

The York County Sheriff's Office released these surveillance photos from an armed robbery reported May 21 at the Harris Teeter on W Highway 160 in Fort Mill.

Emergency crews have freed a woman trapped in her car for about an hour after it collided with a crane on Alexander Love Highway near York Comprehensive High School.

Law enforcement this year is gearing up for July 4 and planning to be on the lookout for impaired drivers and speeding violations especially in and around local summer hot spots, beach and the mountain areas.

The 1981 York High School class ring of Kenny Harper, found by Jim Doncaster at Winthrop Lake after being lost more than 25 years.

York County Councilman Eric Winstead told The Herald on Friday that he was resigning “effective immediately” in the aftermath of his second arrest in five months for a driving offense.