Archive By Author - Martin L. Cahn
Drive-by shooting triggers second attack
Two Camden men are behind bars, one charged with attempted murder, in connection with two shooting incidents Tuesday night, including a drive-by shooting in Camden.
Man who 'ordered' gang shooting pleads guilty
Byron Michael Wood was 18 years old in late 2007 when he ordered Markelle Jamar Reid, also 18 at the time, to "ride someone" in order to get back into Camden's Nine Trey Bloods gang. That order ultimately led Reid to shoot and kill 17-year-old Michael Joseph Smith -- the first, and so far only, person to die in a gang-related shooting in Kershaw County -- on Dec. 7, 2007.
A '21st century model' of primary care
Michael Nienhuis and Vanessa Wideman came to medicine from two very different directions. Yet, the two KershawHealth Primary Care at Elgin physicians got into medicine for the same reason: to help people.
Law Enforcement Report - March 2, 2011
The Kershaw County Sheriff's Office (KCSO) is investigating a shooting incident at a West DeKalb Street, Camden, motel.
Councils' strategies are smart moves
Both Camden City and Kershaw County councils seem to be made up of people with good heads on their shoulders.
Ukrainian law enforcement educators visit KCSO
The Kershaw County Sheriff's Office (KCSO) in Lugoff, South Carolina, is 5,260 miles, or 8,465 kilometers, from Kiev, Ukraine. If the half-dozen men and their two interpreters had taken a direct flight from Kiev, spelled by Ukrainians as Kyiv, the trip would have lasted nine and a half hours.
Strategy for the future -- Part Two
"To provide jobs for existing residents and bring new residents to Camden by attracting businesses and industries."
Strategy for the future - Part One
"To construct an expanded multipurpose recreational facility located as close to downtown Camden as possible with partners to operate it."
Man arrested in shooting
One man was injured and another man arrested in an early Tuesday morning shooting on Chesnut Street in Camden.
Law Enforcement Reports - Feb. 23, 2010
Two Camden men were arrested after complaints of unusual levels of traffic, drug dealing and other suspicious activity, including people entering and staying at a Woodside Drive, Camden, home without permission.
KCSO seizes weapons, more at S.C. DOC lieutenant's home
The Kershaw County Sheriff's Office (KCSO) arrested a S.C. Department of Corrections lieutenant Friday after a total of 34 weapons were recovered from his Elginwood Drive home in Elgin.
Regretting the errors with a smile
Today, you'll find a correction and clarification to a story I wrote recently about a pair of neighboring home invasions.
Man robs store, gets away on bike
Wednesday's robbery of the Sally Beauty Supply store in Springdale Plaza has similarities to a robbery in Richland County where the suspect left the scene of the crime on a bicycle, according to Camden Police Chief Joe Floyd
County comes out to support NPS designations
Government officials, historic site representatives, preservationists, business owners and history buffs crowded into the Robert Mills Courthouse in downtown Camden for two public meetings Wednesday all in support of an effort to designate two historic sites as units within the U.S. National Park Service (NPS).
Law Enforment Report - Feb. 16, 2011
Kershaw County Sheriff's Office (KCSO) deputies and school resource officers (SROs) handled about 10 incidents at or related to area schools during the past week.
Articles By Author - Martin L. Cahn
Jungle Safari delights some, rankles others
The appearance Wednesday of a small traveling zoo in Camden provided some residents the chance to see, close up, certain animals they might only ever encounter on television or the Internet. Other residents, however, expressed dismay that such an exhibit was allowed to come to Camden much less exist at all.
Beard collection opens Thursday at Archives
Visitors won't be able to help but stop and stare at the giant rifle at the Camden Archives and Museum. At 6 feet long and 90 pounds heavy, the training rifle features an 8-inch bolt for .50 caliber armor piercing rounds. Fashioned at Pearl Harbor, the rifle's barrel is actually from the USS Arizona sunk during the Japanese attack of Dec. 7, 1941, that catapulted the United States into World War II.
When DOJ targets press, we all lose
To say I was stunned was putting it mildly. I was shocked to learn about the U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ) decision to seize phone records belonging to the Associated Press (AP). The C-I does not belong to the AP; I have never written for the service. That doesn't negate my outrage at DOJ's actions.
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