Hartsville News

The Oct. 22 shooting death of a Hartsville man that was originally thought to be a homicide has been ruled a suicide, Hartsville Police Chief Tim Kemp said.

State Rep. Nikki Haley of Lexington, a Republican candidate for governor in 2010, will visit Hartsville to meet voters fro 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov.

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.

With the passing of Lynwood Lewis on Sunday at age 63, Hartsville lost one of its true champions.

Jannie Harriot, who lost her bid for the District 1 seat on Hartsville City Council, is challenging the election results.

Chesterfield County investigators have made an arrest in a stabbing incident that took place last week.

For the second year in a row, Hartsville City Council has passed a resolution temporarily suspending part of the blue laws against Sunday morning shopping.

Darlington County Board of Social Services Meeting: 9 a.m. today in the Mozingo Building Conference Room, Darlingon.

Businessman Mel Pennington won an overwhelming victory in Tuesday's race for mayor of Hartsville with 65.5 percent of the vote to rival Pam Sansbury's 34.5 percent.

Hartsville Today is up and running once again. A catastrophic hardware failure caused the interactive citizen journalism Web site to crash Oct.

In four days, the campaigning ends. Now it's your turn. Don't take that for granted.

The Hartsville Building Commission is offering a $250 reward for the arrest and conviction of those responsible for destroying the Byerly Baby statue in the Hartsville Museum's Sculpture Courtyard, Den Latham, building manager for the commission, said.

On Halloween eve, Tally Johnson, author of three books on South Carolina ghost stories, will be visiting Burry Bookstore from 4 to 5:30 p.m. to share some of his favorite ghost tales and sign copies of his new book "Ghosts of the Pee Dee." This is a free event.

Look in Friday's edition of The Messenger for coverage of Tuesday's City Council Forum.

A second former Coker College baseball player has been charged in connection with a crash that killed a Hartsville woman four years ago.

The Hartsville Furniture Co., 133 E. College Ave., celebrated its 75th anniversary Thursday with birthday cake, balloons and bargains throughout the store.

Hartsville firefighters are on the scene of a truck fire on S.C. 151 near Hartsville.

Hartsville's Jannie Harriot has been named a 2009 Purpose Prize fellow, an honor for social entrepreneurs older than 60 who are using their experience and passion to take on society's biggest challenges.