Florence News

Country music fans in the Pee Dee have a rare opportunity to meet a celebrity face to face this Saturday afternoon when rising star Colt Ford makes a personal appearance at Mike Reichenbach Ford Lincoln Mercury in Downtown Florence.

Representatives from the city of Florence and Florence and Darlington counties gathered Wednesday morning to sign a resolution officially adopting a regional stormwater education strategy through the Florence Darlington Stormwater Consortium.

More than 40 percent of South Carolinians will be obese by the year 2013, but not if Bree Boyce has anything to say about it.

A 40-year-old man has been taken into custody in Florence County Wednesday after police allege he sexually assaulted five children.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 11:38 a.m. Read more: Local , State , Community , Annual Scrooges and Angels , 2009 In the following news release, South Carolina Secretary of State Mark Hammond announced today the fourteenth-annual Scrooges and Angels for 2009.

Employment services company Monster is marking the opening of its customer call center in South Carolina.

Twelve lucky dogs from the Florence Area Humane Society will be licking the faces of 12 lucky new owners Sunday in Rochester, N.Y. Leigh Ann Sawyer and Kim Massengill will leave Florence early Saturday morning in a rented van en route to Rochester.

Law enforcement agencies in North and South Carolina are on the hunt for a man they say is responsible for a series of robberies in the two states.

A 10-year-old girl and 3-year-old boy have died in a weekend car crash in eastern South Carolina.

Two Florence men have been sentenced for their role in bringing large amounts of illegal drugs to the Pee Dee, U.S. Attorney W. Walter Wilkins said in a press release issued Friday.

The South Carolina Dance Theatre will present The Nutcracker Ballet with live orchestral accompaniment at the Florence Little Theatre starting Friday through the weekend.

Terrall Echols, a 33-year-old man at the center of a controversial Oct. 28 police incident, says he suffered an epileptic seizure that day and remembers little.

Patriotic music that wafted from the West Florence High School auditorium Wednesday during Veterans Day ceremonies had all those in attendance tapping their feet.

An Aug. 13 robbery of a Jackson Hewitt Tax Service in Florence was all a set up orchestrated by a former employee and her estranged husband, Florence Police Maj.

Barack Obama's push to revamp the nation's health care system is getting the cold shoulder from Southerners, according to a new poll by Winthrop University.

Officials with the Florence County Sheriff's Office are asking drivers to use caution around a fallen utility pole in Florence.

United States Attorney W. Walter Walkins announced today that 17 drug suppliers from the Pee Dee region of South Carolina pled guilty to their involvement in a drug conspiracy spanning the past decade and involving more than one hundred of kilograms of powder cocaine and crack cocaine.

Florence's sign for its historical depot is shown. Published: November 9, 2009 Updated: November 9, 2009 In a rush to make it somewhere one afternoon, the red light at the intersection of Hoffmeyer Road and Darlington Street was another unwelcome delay.

More than 3,000 people die in home fires each year in the United States; most of whom are in homes without a working smoke alarm.

West Florence High School sophomore Will Dixon said he used to think law enforcement officers weren't really focused on helping teens.