Chester County News

Published: Saturday, November 7, 2009 at 3:15 a.m. Last Modified: Saturday, November 7, 2009 at 1:06 a.m. The Jonesville woman who took the life of a 16-year-old cheerleader by holding down the stabbing victim while demanding her husband "prove his love" with a kitchen knife was sentenced to life in prison without parole Friday in Union.

Once again, a contractor has pulled into the Eureka Mill site in the past two weeks, intent on tearing the old Springs site down and selling the refuse for parts.

About 100 people got to hear ghost stories from a local expert on the eve of the eve of Halloween.

Christmas actually starts in February to a family business in Edgemoor. Or at least the effort to raise money to buy bikes to distribute them to needy children in Chester and York counties for Christ-mas. But that effort isn't going as good this year as it has in the past.

A Chester nightclub was shut down this weekend and a Rock Hill man charged after police found that the club was selling alcohol without a license.

Rain has arrived in York County and the Charlotte metro region, and you can expect it to continue for the rest of the day -- with a threat of flooding through late tonight.

Lung cancer and deaths from lung cancer continue to be "significantly" higher than expected in the Great Falls area and their incidence got worse in one year, an updated state study shows.

State lawmakers are expected to head back to Columbia Tuesday for a special session to extend unemployment benefit to those without jobs in South Carolina.

When state Rep. Greg Delleney makes up his mind to do something, the Citadel graduate locks on like a bulldog.

Investigators in South Carolina say a 41-year-old man was shot and killed by someone standing outside in his yard.

A Chester man died after someone shot into his Saluda Road house Saturday morning.

Chester County Sheriff Richard Smith asked County Council Monday to pass an ordinance requiring all clubs to shut down at 2 a.m., even private ones, and remain closed for at least four hours.

On Friday, Oct.30, Burry Bookstore is hosting author and ghost storyteller Tally Johnson from 4 until 5:30 p.m. He will be signing copies of his new book Ghosts of the Pee Dee, and sharing some of his favorite ghost tales about the surrounding community.

South Carolina's jobless rate in September increased slightly as the state's labor force reached its lowest level in a year.

Nationally syndicated radio host Tom Joyner raised his hand in victory. "I hope now they rest in peace," Tom Joyner said of his two great-uncles who were wrongfully executed.

Two wealthy black brothers executed for killing a white Confederate army veteran in 1913 have been given the first posthumous pardon ever issued in a South Carolina murder case.

Covanta Energy will build a plant that may employ 50 people at a plant that might become an investment of $300 million to $500 million.

What about Nelson Brice and John Crosby? It is justice that two black men from Chester County were pardoned Wednesday for the 1913 murder of a white Civil War veteran that they very likely did not commit.

An incinerator company that turns waste into electricity is eying a site in Chester County, but needs two county boards to approve zoning changes to allow it to operate.

A South Carolina board has unanimously pardoned two great-uncles of syndicated radio host Tom Joyner who were executed for the 1913 murder of a Confederate Army veteran.