Darlington News

Thumbs up to Pee Dee fire departments for their support of the U.S. Fire Administration's "Install. Inspect.

Investigators arrested an Atlanta, GA man and seized nearly $29,000 in counterfeit shoes on Monday afternoon.

Representatives from the city of Florence and Florence and Darlington counties gathered Wednesday morning to sign a resolution officially adopting a regional stormwater education strategy through the Florence Darlington Stormwater Consortium.

Darlington County Council held two public hearings Monday for Ordinance 09-14 and 09-16, officially closed two runways at the Darlington County Jetport and addressed a solid waste report.

Florence's sign for its historical depot is shown. Published: November 9, 2009 Updated: November 9, 2009 In a rush to make it somewhere one afternoon, the red light at the intersection of Hoffmeyer Road and Darlington Street was another unwelcome delay.

Seventeen drug suppliers from the Pee Dee region of the state have pleaded guilty to a wide-ranging drug distribution conspiracy.

Two Darlington men were arrested Wednesday after an off-duty law enforcement agent saw them stealing a utility trailer, Florence Police Maj.

Darlington Police Chief Jay Cox was recently selected as Police Chief of the Year by the South Carolina Law Enforcement Victim Advocate Association.

A Darlington man was sentenced to 35 years in jail for hitting a woman in the head with a heavy object, then throwing her daughter from a moving motorcycle, 4th Circuit Assistant Solicitor Patti McKenzie said.

The Darlington County School Board unanimously approved a new seven-period schedule for district high schools for 2010-11 during the monthly board meeting in Darlington.

Seventeen Pee Dee men have pleaded guilty to their involvement in a drug conspiracy spanning the past decade and involving more than 100 kilograms of powder cocaine and crack cocaine.

Progress Energy will test the alert notification sirens in the 10-mile area around the H.B. Robinson Nuclear Plant, located about five miles from Hartsville, between 2 and 5 p.m. Nov.

The winners of the 2009 Governor's Professor of the Year award were honored Thursday at the State House.

South Carolina is ranked as one of the top 10 states in the nation for the number of reported heavy equipment thefts, according to the S.C. Insurance News Service.

They're two people doing completely different things in their classrooms, and they are part of an elite group with only 34 members.

A 10-year-old dog who went missing in Darlington for a month and two days was found knocking on death's door.

Monday, November 02, 2009 at 10:51 p.m. The Westbound lane of Interstate 20 in Darlington County near the Florence County line is shut down Monday night.

Hartsville has a two-person race for mayor and only one of three city council seats contested in Tuesday's election.

The S.C. Department of Transportation has scheduled a public information meeting Thursday in Darlington County concerning the proposed bridge replacement on West Smith Avenue over Swift Creek.

Boy Scout Frankie Slemmer may have bitten off a big chunk as he started to restore a Shaw veteran Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star.