Summerton News

About three out of four 10th-graders in South Carolina passed the state exit exam on the first try last spring, but the pass rate fell from 2008, according to figures released Tuesday by the state Department of Education.

Mr. and Mrs. Henry Grady Brown III, of Beaufort announce the engagement of their daughter, Caroline Hurst Brown, to Thomas Lee Rhodes III, son of Virginia Tindal Rhodes and Thomas Lee Rhodes Jr., of Summerton.

WLTX.com has more details now on the arrest of Bernard McDaniel, the principal at Scott's Branch High School in Clarendon County.

Summerton is the town where the battle to end school desegregation began. But more than 50 years after Briggs vs.

A high school principal in South Carolina has been arrested and charged with domestic violence.

A Summerton high school principal arrested last week on a felony domestic violence charge is back at work, according to local officials.

Scott's Branch High School Principal Bernard McDaniel has been arrested on a domestic violence charge, according to the Florence County Sheriff's Office.

The Associated Press Missy and Ricky Geddings hold their granddaughter, Kaydence Allissa Ann Geddings, who was rescued from her mother's womb on Aug.

An Aug. 13 robbery of a Jackson Hewitt Tax Service in Florence was all a set up orchestrated by a former employee and her estranged husband, Florence Police Maj.

A man involved in a controversial wreck that killed a pregnant teenager in August was beaten on Monday afternoon, police said.

The Clarendon County Chamber of Commerce honored four county residents Thursday during the organization's annual dinner.

Clarendon County sheriff's deputies arrested two Manning men Monday thought to be involved in no less than six burglaries at homes throughout the county.

A 49-year-old Summerton man was killed early Saturday morning in a single vehicle wreck on Elliot Road, officials said.

A little more than a month after a similar endeavor was undertaken in Summerton, Manning Lions Club members will come together at the Wyboo Plantation Community Center on Monday to march for diabetes awareness.

Robert Baker / The Item People of all ages enjoy Clarendon Hall's Boo Mania and Laurence Manning Academy's Cat Fest during the weekend.

The Beach Company's new Cantey Bay Plantation development will not be annexed into the town.

Robert Baker / The Item Gov. Mark Sanford told employees of Select Labaratories LLC that he appreciated their efforts at supplying affordable testing to rural physicians and patients.

Clarendon School District 1 officials said that if a bus driver had followed policy, a 5-year-old girl said to be a student at Summerton Early Childhood Center would not have been left alone on a bus after it was parked for the night.

Summerton, S.C. Jenean Richardson didn't get home from school Tuesday night until 8:30. The 5-year-old was left on a bus all alone in the parking lot of Scott's Branch High School in Summerton.

At the most recent Sumter city and county council meetings, both councils gave approval to a resolution dealing with a regional wastewater service agreement.