Sumter News

Reverend and Mrs. Joseph Robert Huggins of Sumter, SC announce the engagement of their daughter, Emily Ruth to Mr. David Zade Liptak, both of Newberry, SC.

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

A Sumter hospital has been given about two weeks to come up with $20 million so it can continue to appeal a $240 million judgment SUMTER, S.C. - A Sumter hospital has been given about two weeks to come up with $20 million so it can continue to appeal a $240 million judgment against it.

A U.S. Army Central officer saved the life of one man and gave proper first aid to another following an accident on Highway 378 in Sumter, officials with Shaw Air Force Base said.

Mark Brenner, co-owner of Marbren Tire in Long Island City, N.Y., appreciates that the company's new plant in Sumter, S.C., is producing tires in the U.S. Brenner is pictured with the new Continental TrueContact.

An Orangeburg man has admitted conspiring to kill a prison guard in a hit orchestrated by an inmate on an illegal cellphone.

Scholar Susanna Ashton does research on the South Carolina fugitive slave John Andrew Jackson, who settled in Springfield, at the Wood Museum of Springfield History.

A man has pleaded guilty to his role in a plot to kill a prison guard at the Lee Correctional Institution.

The Church of God and True Holiness, 1185 Thorne Avenue, Kingstree, invites everyone to join us in our weekly services.

Looking strictly at the rising import penetration of passenger and light truck tires in the U.S. replacement business, it might be easy to get the impression that tire manufacturing in the U.S. is a dying industry.

1891 - Katanga Company is formed under Leopold of Belgium's direction to exploit copper deposits in what is today the southernmost province in Congo.

In 1993, Sgt. Maj. Chris Fletcher joined the U.S. Army. Since then he has been deployed to Bosnia and Macedonia, twice to Afghanistan and numerous times to Kuwait, rising to the highest non-commissioned rank.

Lee Brice performs on stage at the 49th annual Academy of Country Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on Sunday, April 6, 2014, in Las Vegas.

Family members and Sumter police aren't giving up hope in finding a woman who hasn't been seen since last summer.

The BBQ Battle at the Beach kicked off Friday for the first time in the Grand Strand, and it's not just an event with good food, it benefits local charities and the economy as a whole.

A Special Education teacher at High Hills Elementary, located at Shaw Air Force Base, filed an assault report with the Sumter Sumter, SC -- A Special Education teacher at High Hills Elementary, located at Shaw Air Force Base, filed an assault report with the Sumter County Sheriff's Office following an altercation with the school principal that ... (more)

The result of a year-long heroin investigation conducted jointly between the Sumter Police Department, the Sheriff Departments of both Sumter and Orangeburg, Homeland Security, the D.E.A., and Probation and Parole, has netted fourteen suspects arrested, and five more still sought.

Law enforcement officers in Sumter County are looking for five people and arrested 14 in a year-long heroin investigation.

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

In 2014, South Carolina will have a race for Congressional 6th District. This is a very large district and consists of all of Bamberg, Clarendon, Colleton, Marion and Williamsburg counties and parts of Berkeley, Calhoun, Charleston, Dorchester, Florence, Georgetown, Lee, Orangeburg, Richland and Sumter counties.