Connor McKemey

Rock Hill city officials want to increase communication with residents, which they hope will help answer concerns about street repairs, electricity outages and general questions.

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York Preparatory Academy, the county's only public charter school open to any student, will hold open houses and information sessions to spread the word about the school.

UPDATED WITH VIDEO | The vice chairman of the York County Council was arrested overnight on drunk driving charges, according to police. Councilman Eric Winstead told The Herald his father's death in January triggered his drinking.

Karin McKemey said she has the most amazing neighbors. One of them rescued her 13-year-old son, Connor McKemey, when he was burned during the eruption of an outdoor fireplace at their Tega Cay home.

Inch by inch, surgeons are cutting away the painful remnants of that terrible night just days before Christmas.

Connor McKemey has endured dozens of surgeries since he was burned in a December accident. But a new technology means he won't have to undergo one procedure normally required to make a mask designed to help his face heal.

Within days of the outdoor fireplace accident in which Connor McKemey was burned last month, grafts of his skin were growing in a laboratory to replace burned tissue.