Sumter News

Sumter police detectives have identified a man they say has been conning local businesses out of hotel rooms and meals by having the businesses bill Alice Drive Baptist Church or promising payment at a later ...

The Chief of the Manning Police Department says they are searcing for an armed man in a wooded area heading north on Interstate-95, after they say he robbed a restaurant and check cashing business, and he says ...

Chris Moore / The Item Sumter firefighters work to contain a blaze at Houck Street Apartments just after 1 a.m. Saturday.

Although a native and resident of Sumter County, Nyetta Hill-Lewis, 34, has family that ties her to Clarendon County.

Sumter firefighters responded to a 4-unit apartment fire shortly before 1 a.m. Saturday at Houck Street Apartments off Houck Street.

Item file photo Melody Jones, right, describes a fireworks package to David Lee at Floyd's Fireworks on McCrays Mill Road.

This week was a significant one for South Carolina in terms of receiving nuclear waste.

During the Fourth of July holidays last year, there was only one fatality on the highways of Sumter, Lee and Clarendon counties.

Mark Morgan / The Item From left, Jimmy Deas of the Sumter Fire Department, Maj.

From Big Jim's, to Cathy's on Broad, to Mr. B's, the well-known dining location at 451 Broad St.

The Good Samaritans for All People Inc., in its 14th year reaching out to the needy in Lee and surrounding counties, is inviting the public to support its various giveaways throughout the year by participating ...

Keith Gedamke / The Item A state law enforcement division helicopter circles over a wooded area near the intersection of U.S. 378 and Interstate 95 on Tuesday afternoon as authorities look for an individual ...

The American Red Cross is throwing a party in appreciation of blood donors and in hopes of getting more to give.

The state House of Representatives unanimously overrode Gov. Mark Sanford's veto on a bill that, as of 4 p.m. Wednesday, allows the county special exemption to a state-mandated millage cap limiting how much ...

The seven-seater white Cessna 421 with green and tan stripes sleeps in a hangar at the Sumter Airport.

Keith Gedamke / The Item Christy Pittman, foreground, and Dana Hill have been racing in the women's racing division at Sumter Speedway for months.

A 31-year-old Florence man with several gunshot wounds was dropped off at Tuomey Regional Medical Center early Friday morning, and Sumter Police are searching for clues.

Arguably, our most vivid memories are those associated with food. The great Marcel Proust wrote movingly about the association in his "Remembrance of Things Past." He recalls dipping a madeleine, a small French ...

The Sumter County Capital Project Sales Tax Commission cut two items Friday from its list of projects to be funded by the capital penny-on-the-dollar sales tax should the tax be approved by voters in November's ...

Fire safety education and smoke alarm installation programs are under way in Sumter and Lake City, the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control announced recently.