Camden News

Pete Hein, 44, enjoys a smoke at Group Therapy in Five Points, Monday, September 29.

Arthur Frame, of Columbia, enjoys a smoke at Goatfeathers in Five Points, Tuesday, the last night before the smoking ban goes into effect.

In its 12th year, Camden's Downhome Blues Festival is stretching the boundaries of its participants while at the same time solidifying the high level of talent brought to its stages.

Isn't it grand? All those beautiful faces wrapping around the newspaper ... During the past couple of weeks, we asked breast cancer survivors to send us their photos and philosophies of life after cancer and ...

Funeral services for Col. Willard E. "Gene" Marlow , age 66, of Elgin, SC, will be held at St.

Heart transplant patient Kevyns Luthy, 18, who is battling organ rejection, visited the S.C. Aquarium on Wednesday with his family and friends from The Ronald McDonald House.

Construction for the first phase of Central Carolina Technical College's new Kershaw County campus should begin by the first of next year and is targeted for completion by year's end.

Parker says men 'are capable of honor and capable of nobility' Keith Gedamke / The Item Nationally syndicated columnist Kathleen Parker discusses her life and her book "Save the Males: Why Men Matter, Why Women ...

According to the Richland County Sheriff's Department, at around 8:30am, a South Carolina Highway Patrol Trooper attempted to stop a vehicle because the driver wasn't wearing his seatbelt.

A Camden man crashed a car into a wooded area off Old Stagecoach Road in Kershaw County after failing to stop for state troopers and Kershaw County deputies Tuesday, authorities said.

By RICK ROTHACKER and CHRISTINA REXRODE - rrothacker@charlotteobserver.com , crexrode@charlotteobserver.com Q&A: Banking turmoil creates ripple effect Merrill Lynch has 53 financial advisers and 21 support ...

Listen to and sound off on a proposal for a workplace smoking ban in West Columbia: When: 6 tonight Where: City Hall, 200 N. 12th St.

CAMDEN, S.C. -- While the political class was focused on the meaning of pigs wearing lipstick, a few fortunate South Carolinians were riveted by the meaning of valor.

Recently, and, it appears, belatedly, the Kershaw Historical Society and other preservation-minded community members mounted an effort to convince municipal authorities to reconsider making the former Bank of ...

Tuesday, September 09, 2008 at 3:01 p.m. One of two accused gunmen wanted in connection with the murder of 16-year-old Kristian Perry is in custody.

City and county government leaders in metropolitan Columbia said they can handle a mandated cut of $1.3 million in state aid, but many worry the fiscal ax might fall again.

Book signings, poetry readings, club meetings, writing workshops - send us your literary events.

Claire Estep, 10, shops with her father Scott inside the new Steve & Barry's University Sportswear store in Sumter, Wednesday, August 9, 2006.

The South Carolina Highway Patrol needs your help tracking down information in a fatal hit and run.

The Katawba Valley Land Trust has hired its first employee. Robert Austin Jenkins of Camden will become the nonprofit group's executive director in early September.