Carlisle News

Dr. Ranjan Bista works with two-year-old Evan Payne of Carlisle earlier this week.

As his wife Kathie holds their family Bible, Tommy Sinclair takes the oath of office as Union County Supervisor from Clerk of Court Freddie Gault.

Burglaries and break-ins that netted the thieves more than $6,000 in money, jewelry and other valuables, including guns, are being investigated by the Union County Sheriffa s Office.

Chester County may find itself on the national and possibly international media map when the dreams of the Institute for Business & Home Safety come to fruition.

The Union County Sheriffa s Office is assisting the Carlisle Fire Department in investigating a fire that heavily damaged a house early Thursday morning.

A joint Union County Sheriffa s Office/Union Public Safety Department drug bust deemed a oeSummer Slama is continuing as officers round up the last of the 56 suspects they expect to arrest.

Sheriff David Taylor says officers hope to take 56 people into custody in a drug roundup that began early Tuesday morning.

The best way to deal with Union Countya TMs high unemployment may be to drown it.

CARLISLE a ' Residents here and from surrounding areas can get help in buying or repairing a house from the U.S. Department of Agriculturea TMs Rural Development Office.

Thanks to a generous donor, the Union County YMCA will be able to serve meals to disadvantaged children this summer.

A 46-year-old man from Chester County was killed on Wednesday on Interstate 26 in Newberry County, according to the S.C. Highway Patrol.

A Chester man was killed Wednesday when a car struck the mower he was operating at an interstate rest stop in western South Carolina.

A 46-year-old man troopers say was operating a lawnmower near Interstate-26 east was struck and killed Wednesday morning, eight miles west of Whitmire.

Graduating seniors can go shopping courtesy of the Town of Carlisle. The town will give graduating high school and college seniors who live within the town limits $25 gift certificates from Belk in Union.

The demise of a federal summer food program means many underprivileged children in Union County are left holding an empty lunch bag.

The following people pleaded guilty Wednesday or Thursday in General Sessions Court before Circuit Judge John C. Hayes III of Rock Hill: Fallon Gregory, 3612 Santuc-Carlisle Highway, Carlisle, to four counts of forgery, one year suspended to time served and six months probation.

The Union County Sheriffa s Office should establish a permanent presence in Lockhart and Carlisle.

Union County deputies arrested four teenagers Sunday after a couple told police they were robbed at gunpoint.

Two more arrests have been made in what has been deemed a gang-related shooting in Carlisle Friday night.

Having a deputy stationed at town hall would make citizens feel safer, Carlisle's mayor says.