Sumter News

One is dead and three injured following a wreck on 378 in Sumter on Saturday. Caesar Puente was driving a 2013 Dodge Dart when Caesar Puente was driving a 2013 Dodge Dart when he collided with Barbara Anne Wilson, the driver of a 2006 Kia Spectra.

Sumter County officials are hoping residents will vote for another round of the Penny for Progress tax, which has allowed them to update various buildings, roads and more within the county Sumter County officials are looking to continue the penny-tax implemented by voters nearly six years ago by narrowing down a list of future projects they want to ... (more)

Rescuers helped pull members of a South Carolina family from their minivan after it became submerged in the Atlantic surf on Florida's Daytona Beach.

The off-the-road tire business expects to bounce back this year, according to Tim Easter, director of OTR sales at Yokohama Tire Corp. Easter offered the industry-wide forecast at last week's annual OTR conference at Marco Island hosted by the Tire Industry Association .

The South's newest reality show — a "docu-series" that aims to show the lives of the elite in Charleston — is here.

Born in Martinsburg, he was a son of the late Paul and Hilda Wroe. Mr. Wroe attended the University of Maryland and was a Police Officer in Baltimore City.

Charleston is a polite city. It is changing, to be sure, as tourists discover its charms, retirees settle here and young professionals and entrepreneurs add mass to a burgeoning business and cultural environment.

George Jurch considers himself a businessman with a law degree. As vice president and general counsel at Continental Tire the Americas , Jurch spends as much time scouting locations for manufacturing plants and lobbying elected officials as he does overseeing complex business transactions.

Sumter, SC - Sumter County deputies have charged a man with murder in connection with a killing from nearly two years ago.

Sumter County Sheriff's investigators say 31-year-old Elizabeth Moss was taken back into custody Tuesday and charged with criminal solicitation of a minor.

Sumter, S.C. -- Protruding garage doors and heavy smoke greeted Sumter firefighters as they responded to a house fire Tuesday along Kingsbury Drive, off of South Guinyard Drive.

St. Paul United Methodist Church, 3733 Thurgood Marshall Hwy., Kingstree, will be open for noonday prayer on Wednesdays.

Sumter police were called to an Applebee's last week after they received a report of a man who tried to pay his lunch tab with a trillion dollar bill.

As much as we'd all like to think public officials will always be honest, it simply isn't the case.

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Teacher Elizabeth Mary Moss was arrested and charged with second-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

The national epidemic of teacher-student sex stories marches on unabated. Any given week is likely to include several stories, and some are more intriguing than others.

It's been fairly well documented that relations between the Obama administration and Capitol Hill have been a bit frosty.

We doubt there's a place in the world that could break a 'trillion dollar bill' but that didn't stop this man from reportedly trying to pay with one.

A Savannah native, Georgia Benton grew up hearing about the Civil War service of her great-grandfather, a slave from Sumter, S.C., who followed his master to the battles of Sharpsburg, Gettysburg and Petersburg, and then brought his body home for burial when he was struck down by artillery fire and slain during the conflict's final days.