Bishopville News

Item File Photo Bayler Teal attends a pancake breakfast held to raise funds for his fight against neuroblastoma last year.

For the first time in several years, the city is going to have a Christmas parade.

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.

Members of City Council unanimously re-elected Councilman Ennis Bryant to serve as mayor pro tem until the city elects a new mayor in a nonpartisan election on Feb.

A community group is asking the Lee County Board of Education to take an active role in saving the old Bishopville High School on North Main Street.

The area's rural school districts are doing pretty good to excellent work when it comes to helping students accomplish the ultimate goal, graduating high school on time, statistics show.

Gilbert Baker, a Veteran and member of Veterans of War Post 3096, was all smiles Friday afternoon at First Citizens Bank on South Main Street.

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.

Lee County residents are beginning to ask questions about the rezoning of 130 acres near Exit 116 on Interstate 20 from rural to heavy industrial.

Jannie Mae Prescott, 64, of New Haven, departed this life November 8, 2009. Born in Cassette, SC, February 3, 1945, she was a daughter of the late Simon and Rosa Lee Farmer Jackson.

The first Pee Dee Blues Bash wrapped up Sunday afternoon with a performance at Barnes Street Activity Center by Bishopville native Drink Small, "the Blues Doctor." At the last of the 24 shows that played in four days, the crowd was still clapping and excited to be there.

The city of Bishopville is hoping the use of stimulus funding to purchase new light fixtures and heat pumps is going to translate into savings on its energy bills.

Bishopville Mayor Tom Alexander, 78, remained in the trauma care unit at McLeod Regional Medical Center Thursday after suffering a massive stroke Tuesday night.

A hundred 3- and 4-year-olds can make a lot of noise when they are playing with streamers and balloons.

Up 2-1 the Lady Cobra volleyball team was unable to finish off the Erskine Flying Fleet in Conference Carolinas volleyball action on Saturday afternoon, losing 3-2. In a true back and forth battle, Coker won the opening set 26-24, but they dropped the second set 25-18. The Lady Cobras battled back to win the third set 25-21, but were again stopped ...

Pearl Fryar's yard in rural Bishopville, S.C., has made him something of an art-world star.

Ronnie Bracey makes people laugh and gets paid to do it. The Bishopville native and 1987 graduate of Bishopville High School is known professionally as Ra Ra Bracey.

Children love Halloween. It's a time for dressing up in costumes, eating tons of candy and knocking on doors.

Gina Vasselli / The Item People line up early Tuesday for the start of the application process for the Salvation Army's Christmas Assistance Program.