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Compact Power, a manufacturer of compact loaders, skid steers, excavators and other construction and landscaping equipment, has entered a limited rental agreement with Home Depot, according to an article in Rental Equipment Register.

Jose Alvarenga, 26, walked into a Mecklenburg County courtroom Friday morning wearing an orange prison jumpsuit and handcuffs.

Need a zombie costume for Halloween? Maybe a Dracula, princess or ghost outfit? You can find all that and more at Mostly Dead, a Fort Mill Halloween store that's chock full of classic Halloween garb, props and make-up. Store hours are 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday and Saturday and 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday.

An up and down tennis season for the Fort Mill High Lady Jackets ended on a sour note last week as they fell to Blythewood High School in the opening round of the Class 4A state playoffs.

Residents of the Foxwood neighborhood will meet with state health officials Monday to talk about contaminants and water quality issues in the well system that serves their homes.

Fort Mill might not have its hospital yet, but women have a new option when it comes to where and how they give birth to their babies.

The top three spots in Saturday's AAAA Upper State Championship went to high school bands from York County.Fort Mill High's band took first, capturing its first AAAA Upper State title since 2005 on Saturday.

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.

They till the soil, plant the garden and reap the harvest, but the gardeners that tend the Plant a Row garden on the Anne Springs Close Greenway never take home the fruits of their labors.

Led by their principal, three students walked outside Nation Ford High School in Fort Mill on Monday morning.

Stuart Staples was on a mission trip. And last Friday's pelting rain didn't stop the owner of The Cleaners from carting 166 coats to the Fort Mill Care Center, where Jan Arnold waited.

An early trick-or-treater was arrested Wednesday after police say he stuffed 52 packages of snack-size candy bars in his pants and fled a Rock Hill store.

U.S. Foodservice - Fort Mill is among the newest members of the South Carolina Environmental Excellence Program , a voluntary leadership initiative designed to recognize facilities that have demonstrated "superior environmental performance." The Fort Mill division is the group's 34th member.

A man was arrested and removed from a Fort Mill courtroom Tuesday after police say he came to his own arraignment intoxicated.

The Fort Mill school district will consider making safe driving classes for students mandatory after a pair of deadly crashes in the last nine days involving Nation Ford High School teens, school officials said Tuesday.

Fort Mill schools Superintendent Keith Callicutt recommended a middle school reassignment plan Monday that would, in August, shift more than 600 students from their current schools.

A teenager's life is cut short - the victim of a deadly car accident Saturday night.

For the second time in less than a week, a Nation Ford High School student has died in a crash, officials said.

Robinson strokes a gray rabbit. Nearby, Samantha St. Clair cleans the rabbit's cage.

Monday was a rare day off from school, so Michelle Marie DiBernardini and a group of friends did what most teens do on their day off - they headed to the mall.

A police dog helped track down two teenage suspects after a Papa John's delivery driver was held up with a sawed off shot gun in Rock Hill, police say.

Three Nation Ford High School students were involved in a crash that claimed the life of one teen and sent two others to a Charlotte hospital, officials said.

Leaders in Fort Mill are at a crossroads. Should they pour thousands of dollars into a project to renovate a Main Street building into a downtown entertainment venue that could include movie theater? To answer that question and more, Fort Mill leaders may turn to a feasibility study by the Tomlinson-Graham Group of Georgia," Town Manager David ...

A company that makes electrical products will open its East Coast distribution center in Fort Mill Township.

The Charlotte Knights and York County have reached a deal to keep the Triple-A baseball franchise in Fort Mill Township.

Some Fort Mill parents are split over how to shuffle students when the district's fourth middle school opens next year.

The Fort Mill High School Band competed at two events Saturday and brought home two grand championship awards and 18 trophies.

Fort Mill High School closed early on Monday after a bomb threat forced all students to be evacuated from the school.

Fort Mill High will be closed for the remainder of the day after officials were alerted of a bomb threat this morning, officials said.

In less than three months, Rosemary Fann has gone from being homeless and living in a tent on rented property in Van Wyck to owning her own, brand new manufactured home.

An out-of-town woman was arrested Thursday afternoon when police say they found her sleeping in a stolen vehicle parked at Fort Mill's Plaza Fiesta.

In this Feb. 24, 2009 file photo, US Airways flight 1549 Capt. Chesley B Sullenberger III, seated, center, and First Officer Jeffrey B. Skiles, seated, right, receive a standing ovation on Capitol Hill in Washington as they prepared to testify before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.