Coming: Pirate Day, Great Outdoors Expo at Simpson Hardware, eSTEAM festival, First Responders BBQ Cookoff, Oktoberfest and ...

A federal grand jury in Columbia returned a 13-count indictment, presented by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, charging four ...

A dear friend of 10 years experienced a severe mental health crisis. I did my best to reach out to her, but she pushed me ...

Sumter American Legion Post 15 opened its annual fair on Thursday, Sept. 17. The fair, which runs through Sept. 27, features rides and local food vendors, including Twisted Pig and Vampire Penguin. In ...

A Sumter lottery player described perfectly how it feels to win half-a-million dollars. “I feel rich,” she told lottery officials. She says she was putting gas in her car at the ...

Shirley Annerie Fullard McCray, 69, widow of Daniel Junior McCray and daughter of Edward Gordon and the late Rosa Lee Fullard, was born on Sept. 12, 1957, in Sumter, South Carolina.  She ...

SAFE Federal Credit Union  of Sumter announced Friday the purchase of a 26,000-square-foot satellite campus in Columbia, South Carolina. The purchase is a major milestone in the credit ...

As I sit to write this column, it is Sept. 11, 2026, the 25th anniversary of 9/11/01. Anyone who is over 30 years old can tell you exactly where they were when they heard about a plane crashing into ...

Leaves will be falling soon, morning temperatures are cooling, and the breeze is picking up. Autumn is upon us, and so is one of Sumter's favorite annual events: the Fall Feast. The annual community ...

World shares mostly advanced on Thursday despite Wall Street closed lower following the Federal Reserve's interest rate hike ...

Sumter County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a suspect in the homicide of two women found on Puddin Swamp Road earlier this ...

The Rev. Carl McKnight, 82, husband of Diane Primes McKnight and son of the late Ivory McKnight and Luemell Cousar McKnight, ...