Lancaster County News

Last week, 95 dogs and cats were brought to Lancaster County Animal Control. Of those animals, 35 have already been euthanized and, if they don't find a home, the rest will lose their lives later this week.

Republican state Sen. Mick Mulvaney, who represents Lancaster and York counties, is scheduled to announce Tuesday he will challenge U.S. Rep.

The last time Ephrata police dealt with Heather Angelica Kamp was when she was accused of passing herself off as a doctor and drawing blood from a 6-year-old girl she was baby-sitting in the northern Lancaster County town, they said.

MARION - If the man charged with murdering the husband of his ex-girlfriend is convicted, it won't be the first time he spends time in prison for shooting someone.

The two candidates for state House District 48 agreed on only one issue Monday night when they faced off during a forum at Fort Mill High School: the need to repeal Act 388, South Carolina's property tax reform legislation.

Lancaster officers are investigating three unrelated armed robberies that occurred since Saturday night.

Editor's note: The York County Roundup is a weekly look at highlights from The Herald's sister weekly newspapers, the Lake Wylie Pilot, Fort Mill Times and Enquirer-Herald. The publications come out Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, respectively, and are available across the county.

A convicted killer has been invited into a Lancaster school to speak to kids about making bad choices, and that has some parents upset.

Gov. Mark Sanford has been in a political shark tank ever since the news broke in June of his extramarital affair.

Forecasters say today's beautiful weather in the Charlotte metro region will be a distant memory in another 24 hours.

Seventeen of the 45 people who died this year in York, Chester and Lancaster county traffic accidents - nearly 40 percent - were not wearing seatbelts, crash data shows.

Initial revenue from the federal economic stimulus package is making its way to the Panhandle.

Internet-marketing company Red Ventures is moving to Lancaster County, S.C., where it plans to add 1,000 jobs over the next five to seven years, company officials announced today.

Rock Hill leaders have come up with a new plan for the city's future. Hoping to make City Hall more accountable for its successes and shortcomings, they also have developed a new way to measure their performance.

Journalist and author Dan Huntley, Katawba Valley Land Trust founder Lindsay Pettus and the Jeff Wilson family of Lowrys have been named 2009 recipients of the Keepers of the Culture award.

Officials say a North Carolina Internet marketing and sales company will expand and move its headquarters to South Carolina, creating 1,000 new jobs in the next few years.

The U.S. Supreme Court postponed arguments scheduled this morning in the dispute between North Carolina and South Carolina over the Catawba River's water supply.

Winthrop University plans to use a newly awarded $7 million federal grant to dramatically transform its educator training program while working with struggling area schools to boost teacher quality and student achievement.

A man died and a woman was injured after being thrown from a motorcycle in Lancaster County Thursday afternoon, according to S.C. Highway Patrol.

Two respected South Carolina judges have died, the S.C. Supreme Court announced.