Sumter News

Photo Provided Wayne Argabright, a member of Sumter County Active Lifestyles, shows the taillight SCAL gives to needy cyclists in order to improve safety on the road.

Sumter City Council has approved the city's 2030 Comprehensive Plan. The plan received final reading at council's Tuesday meeting.

Sumter authorities say a game of dominoes is to blame for an inmate's severe beating at the hands of a South Carolina man charged with murder.

An inmate at Sumter-Lee Regional Detention Center lies comatose in a Columbia hospital after he was severely beaten Monday afternoon by a fellow inmate who has been charged with assault and battery with intent to kill.

Everyone knows about Sumter's Historic District near downtown. But what about the area on the north side of Broad Street? Or South Sumter? The district of Sumter was founded in 1800 so there could be many more historic houses and areas than just those in the Historic District.

An armed gunman robbed a Sumter County convenience store and it was all caught on tape.

A 42-year-old man facing several charges from three criminal sexual conduct cases negotiated a guilty plea Tuesday morning and was sentenced to serve 23 years in prison.

A 56-year-old Rembert man was airlifted to Joseph M. Still Burn Center in Augusta, Ga., on Saturday afternoon after a propane leak caused a fire inside his home.

Bank of Clarendon opened a new loan production office Monday at 678 Bultman Drive.

A Monday meeting at the North HOPE Center hosted by the Sumter County League of Women Voters will address the formation of neighborhood crime watch groups and how citizens can help deter crime.

Joe Perry / The Item Shavone Rogers and Amy Williams of Bishopville cross at the intersection of Main and Liberty streets on Saturday after correctly using crosswalk buttons.

One Bishopville man has been charged with assault and battery with intent to kill and discharging a firearm into a dwelling, and two others are wanted on those same charges, following a shooting Monday night in the Harlem community.

A 41-year-old man who was being sought for allegedly scamming businesses was taken into custody just before 6 p.m. on Friday, said Sumter police Capt.

Since 2001, a group of Sumterites has been working to build a new community center to serve the area around Dalzell.

SUMTER'S CEMETERIES: " In the long ago during the time when families amassed fortunes in lands and built large neighboring plantation homes, there were very close ties binding sons and fathers and brothers and sisters to one another.

The Veterans Day ceremony has been canceled due to inclement weather. Harry Bishop, a member of the Sumter County Veterans Association responsible for putting together the event, said this morning's rain and wind were too much to continue with the outdoor ceremony.

The Sumter metropolitan area is the third-most dangerous in the nation for pedestrians, according to a recently released national study.

With Veterans Day approaching, some agencies in South Carolina are teaming up to make sure the state's veterans know what benefits are available to them.

Landing the Air Force's next-generation fighter - the F-35- likely will guarantee a long future for two Midlands bases and ensure thousands of jobs will stay in the area, military supporters say.

A former South Carolina high school teacher and coach has been arrested after police say he had sexual contact with a 16-year-old female student.