York County News

Officials are working to fix a pump at the Catawba Nuclear Station that has leaked more than 100 gallons of water with traces of tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen, according to federal regulators.

When Diane Howell first applied for the job of principal of York Comprehensive High School, she was crushed at being passed over.

Phillip Watts – York County’s 2008 serial shooter serving seven life sentences in prison – will have to wait until August to try to have his convictions overturned after a judge set to hear the appeal recused himself Thursday.

Federal regulators say more than 100 gallons of water, with traces of a radioactive hydrogen isotope, have leaked at the Catawba Nuclear Station.

Federal regulators say more than 100 gallons of water with traces of a radioactive hydrogen isotope have leaked at the Catawba Nuclear Station.

Funding for a new Bethel Volunteer Fire Department station received an unusual approval last week, accepting a bid and setting a path for the $2 million construction.

Friends in Business of Lake Wylie, a local business networking group, will hold its May lunch meeting at 11:30 a.m. May 15 at All Saints Catholic Church.

A man from Clover police said is barred from possessing a gun from his criminal history was arrested Wednesday after he allegedly pointed a pistol at motorists in another car, according to a York County Sheriff's Office report.

The 161 soldiers of Rock Hill's Army National Guard 178th Combat Engineers who have spent the past nine months in Afghanistan have finished their mission and are soon heading home, Army officials confirmed.

The Fairfield County Historical Society's annual bash is set for 6 p.m. May 16 at Honeysuckle Acres Bed and Breakfast Inn in Winnsboro.

For every $1 the York County, S.C., town of Fort Mill receives in property taxes on residential properties, it has to spend $1.40 on services such as fire, police and schools.

Deputies are investigating whether a string of car break-ins in the Clover area on Tuesday might be connected to a similar rash of break-ins reported at a Rock Hill subdivision last weekend.

But his eyes were dry as a Circuit Court judge told him he’d spend the next eight years in a state prison, followed by five years of probation and substance abuse and vocational counseling.

The Fairfield County Historical Society's annual bash is set for 6 p.m. May 16 at Honeysuckle Acres Bed and Breakfast Inn in Winnsboro.

The added day off with pay would be an optional holiday, said Councilman Joe Cox, chairman of the County Council's finance and operations committee meeting.

This birthday was celebrated with party hats, but the teen was on all fours. She licked the frosting from the tiny birthday cake, with two candles – in the shape of a "1" and an "8" – right there next to the cake.

At about 6:08 a.m., the National Weather Service issued a hazardous weather outlook for several counties in the Upstate, including York and Chester, and parts of northeast Georgia and western North Carolina.

York County women are invited to grab hammers and volunteer during Habitat for Humanity's sixth annual National Women Build Week through Sunday, May 12.

The Winthrop Coliseum was packed Saturday, jammed, standing room only in an arena that seats 6,100, with people standing around the concourse, to watch 645 young people leap into the world armed with undergraduate degrees from the day's graduation.

It wasn't easy calling the Anson County, N.C., Sheriff's Office to report that her mentally ill son had broken into a trailer at her North Carolina home and stolen her guns.