Sumter News

A 25-year-old woman was charged with financial transaction card theft on Monday by investigators from the Sumter Police Department's Financial Crimes Unit, a release said.

A Sumter County man has died after being hit by a truck as he walked along the side of the road Saturday night.

Police have arrested a man in the shooting death of a South Carolina toddler. Sumter Police Chief Patty Patterson said Monday that 18-year-old Asherdon Fari Holloway of Sumter was arrested in Georgia last week and charged with murder.

A person is dead after an accident in Sumter County. Investigators say Saturday night at 9:10 PM, Robert Dukes was driving a 1988 Ford Pick-up truck eastbound down SC-446. A pedestrian, wearing dark shirt and pants, was walking westbound on the shoulder of the highway.

A 47-year-old woman was arrested early Saturday morning after she reportedly led Sumter County deputies on a chase into Kershaw County, where stop sticks were used to flatten her tires, and batons were used to smash her windows and extricate her.

Shockwaves are reverberating among the Sumter legislative delegates in the wake of Gov.

One of two suspects in a Wednesday evening fatal shooting turned himself in on Monday, Sumter County Sheriff Anthony Dennis said.

Gov. Mark Sanford's Wednesday afternoon admission of infidelity prompted a variety of responses from Sumterites.

Sumter County residents will see a five mill decrease in property taxes this year.

A man who first reported seeing a lizardlike swamp creature in Lee County 21 years ago has been shot and killed in what authorities say was an apparent drug-related incident.

Sumter Police have arrested a teenager who fatally shot a man in his home Wednesday.

A 15-year-old Sumter girl died Monday afternoon after the sport-utility vehicle she was driving ran off U.S. 76/378 in eastern Richland County and rolled over several times, ejecting her, police said.

Two crimes shook Sumter County residents late last night, and police are still searching for the perpetrators, according to Sumter County Sheriff Anthony Dennis.

Police have made no arrests in the case of a 37-year-old Sumter man shot to death Wednesday.

Sumter law enforcement officials are looking for a teenager and his accomplice.A Deputies say they fatallyA shot a man several times with a shotgun.

Keith Gedamke / The Item Te-Sean Guptill, 7, splashes down off the slide at the Sumter Aquatic Center on Friday afternoon.

Sheriff Anthony Dennis says his department has responded to two separate shooting incidents in Sumter County.

The city's ongoing budget and labor cuts are causing more controversy. The budget has been under the microscope for months.

Two shootings are under investigation in Sumter County. One man shot in the face is recovering and another man killed.

Authorities in Richland and Fairfield Counties are searching for missing fishermen in two separate incidents.