Two people died in an early morning accident Friday on Interstate 77 in York County. Around 6 a.m., Trooper Billy Elder of the S.C. Highway Patrol said an 18-wheeler ran off the southbound side of the Interstate, off the embankment and hitting a tree. Elder said the two occupants of the tractor-trailer died at the [...]
A Jury Thursday convicted and sentenced a Rock Hill man in the murder of a hospital executive in two years ago in Southpark. Prosecutors successfully proved Chauncey Sterling shot and killed Bob Barber as he was walking home from a coffee shop off Fairview Road. Sterling may face a sentence of up to life in [...]
A Fort Mill woman is charged in the theft of more than a million dollars worth of merchandise from Hobby Lobby Stores across the Carolinas. On Tuesday, a loss prevention employee at the chain’s Rock Hill store recognized 58-year-old Marie Steele in the store from a Be On the Lookout order issued by the company’s [...]
York County Sheriff’s Deputies seized $7,250 in counterfeit OtterBox iPad and phone cases Monday. Sheriff’s Office spokesman Constable Trent Faris said an OtterBox employee first alerted authorities to the fake cases after they were shipped to a Rock Hill business from an address in Hong Kong. The subject in the investigation told sheriff’s deputies he [...]
York County’s SWAT team arrested a York man early Monday morning after deputies say he fired shots at a deputy trying to arrest him. Police say they used a K-9 team to track 23-year-old Johnny Benfield in the woods off Sutton Springs Road after reportedly assaulting a man in a domestic dispute earlier in the [...]
The leader of a Rock Hill-based bike gang will spend nearly the next two decades in prison, while his wife will spend seven years on drug trafficking charges. Dan Bifield, better known as Diamond Dan, will spend the next 17 years in prison after pleading guilty to racketeering charges. Both were sentenced Wednesday in federal [...]
A 13-year-old girl was expelled from York Preparatory Academy this week after school officials say the teenager was sharing nude photos of a fellow 12-year-old student with her classmates. School officials contacted authorities, after launching their own investigation Tuesday morning, which resulted in the school’s director, Carlos Grant, deleting the photos from the teenager’s iPhone [...]
