Rembert News

The second fire in a week at a Delaware Drive address destroyed the $50,000 double-wide mobile home, the Sumter Fire Department says.

A teenager was captured at his home in Lee County on Wednesday morning in connection with the June 17 shooting death of a 37-year-old man, and authorities named another teenager as the fourth suspect in the slaying.

The second suspect sought in the June 17 fatal shooting of a 37-year-old man turned himself in to authorities just before noon Tuesday, said Sumter County Sheriff Anthony Dennis.

A man tried to escape Sumter County sheriff's deputies Sunday evening but they caught him after not long after road spikes flattened his tires, according to the sheriff's office.

Sumter County deputies are searching for two men who they say are responsible for a Wednesday night murder.

The Sumter County Sheriff's Office announced today that a major drug operation in the Rembert area was recently broken up.

An inmate who walked away from his work assignment at Wateree River Correctional Institution in Rembert on May 6 was captured in Cherokee County Wednesday night.

An inmate who escaped from a Sumter County prison was spotted Saturday night near Spears Creek Church Road and Jacobs Mill Pond Road, Richland County sheriff's spokeswoman Monique Mack said.

An inmate who escaped from work detail earlier this week in Rembert has been spotted in Richland County, according to officials.

Officials with the Department of Corrections are looking for an inmate who walked away from his work assignment Wednesday afternoon.

The executive director of the South Carolina Cotton Museum has an appreciation for history and doesn't like seeing valuable resources going by the wayside.

A 9-year-old Alcolu girl was pronounced dead Thursday after a two-car wreck on U.S. 301 near Plowden Mill Road in Alcolu.

Funeral services for Joseph Paul "Joe" Bray, 83, of Bethune will be held Sunday, April 5, 2009, at 2:00 p.m. at Timrod Baptist Church with burial to follow in the church cemetery.

The Sumter Sherrif's office arrested a Rembert man in a child predator case. Attorney General Henry McMaster announced Wednesday that Tyrone T. Diggs, 20, of 5410 Mattie McDaniel Road in Rembert was arrest on Monday, March 23rd.

He is accused of texting sexual messages to a 14-year-old girl. A Sumter County man has been arrested for using phone text messages to solicit sex from a minor.

Sumter County deputies say they have arrested a Rembert man for allegedly sending explicit text messages to a 14-year-old girl.

Anyone between the ages of 18 and 20 must have parental consent before getting a tattoo under state law, but that could change soon.

'Your taxes at work' - to the tune of $3 million - have the upgrades to some of the Sumter County firehouses under way.

A 22-year-old woman was charged with felony DUI with death and open container violation after an 18-year-old woman who was a passenger in her car died Friday night following a single-car wreck on U.S. 521 ...

An agricultural era ended Saturday morning as several hundred people showed up for an absolute auction of equipment as the Edens family's 100 years of farming came to a close.