PHOTOS BY BRUCE MILLS / THE SUMTER ITEM Sumter School District held a districtwide academic awards ceremony Jan. 22, and more ...

PHOTO PROVIDED Clarendon County Historical Society's president Lee Reaves, center, and its treasurer Gene Benfield, right, ...

Grants - local, state and federal - flow through Sumter City Council, which allocates them to community improvement projects and initiatives. This week saw two major developments, with council voting ...

COLUMBIA - South Carolina Department of Transportation will close and detour the St. Pauls Church Road bridge over Cane Savannah Creek in Sumter County for repairs beginning Monday, Feb. 9. The bridge ...

United, the local 7-on-7 program that has made a name for itself on a national stage since its inception in 2022, will kick ...

A New Mexico grand jury has indicted Timothy Busfield on four counts of criminal sexual contact with a child. Bernalillo ...

Lakewood High School students were treated to a performance by the No Hate High School Tour on Wednesday, Feb. 4, at the ...

The U.S. military said Thursday that it has carried out another deadly strike on a vessel accused of trafficking drugs in the ...

Memorial services for Ruth Gass Maple will be held on Monday, Feb. 9, 2026, at 11 a.m. at Antioch United Methodist Church, ...

An investigation is ongoing after a man was discovered shot in a vehicle on Thursday.  Deputies with Clarendon County Sheriff’s Office responded to a shooting in the 1300 black of ...

Michael Kevin Butler, 64, husband of Charlotte Deloris Johnson Butler and son of the late Johnnie Lee Robinson Jr. and Margaret Elizabeth Princeton Robinson, was born on Jan. 20, 1961, in Brooklyn, ...

I have been happily married for 30 years. Unfortunately, my wife's family (two older sisters and her mother, who is 97) have ...