Georgetown News

July 4th will not only be Independence Day this year; in Georgetown, it will be Kathy Ray Cain Day.

The S.C. Retirement System must pay back about $40 million in retirement contributions it improperly took from the paychecks of state employees who participated in a program that lets them continue working after retirement, a state judge ruled this week.

GEORGETOWN -- Fresh fish in a variety of shapes and colors slap the deck at Independent Seafood.

The union president for the Georgetown steel workers says there is no chance the mill will be saved by July 12, putting 240 workers out of a job.

John S. Brown, Jr., 81, widower of Katherine Bookhardt Brown, died Sunday, June 28, 2009, at the N.E. and Ruby Green Hospice House, Georgetown.

A fire Saturday morning gutted a home on Power Point Lane in the Lake Murray area, a Lexington County Fire Service news release said.

GEORGETOWN, S.C. The death penalty trial for the man charged with killing a 63-year-old South Carolina woman has been delayed until next year.

SULLIVAN'S ISLAND - South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford said Friday her husband repeatedly asked permission to visit his lover in the months after she discovered his affair.

Larry Nolan basically lived on a bike as a kid. He grew up riding BMX, did some mountain biking in high school and college, then picked up road cycling in 2002.

Rudolph Bradley or Jack Scoville. Which will be the Democratic nominee for the Georgetown mayor's seat which expires this year? That is a question that will be answered by city voters who head back to the polls Tuesday in the party's primary runoff, which became necessary when neither man received the required 50-percent of the vote in the ...

Taxpayers, residents and businesses will all pay more to the City of Georgetown in the coming year.

A Darlington County jury returned a verdict of $9 million on Saturday, June 6 after finding Progress Energy responsible in the wrongful death of 21-year-old Allen Toney.

On June 4, the Georgetown Business Association invited over 350 businesses and individuals to a Summer Social.

The Horry County Museum has a display of artifacts recovered from the sunken CSS Pee Dee.

Some South Carolina fishermen want a group that manages offshore fishing to look into whether spear fishermen from Florida are exploiting the rules when they take thousands of pounds of game fish from the state's artificial reefs.

Music too loud Not long after being pulled over and given a verbal warning about her car radio being too loud, a 23-year-old Georgetown woman was pulled over for the same offense at about 1:15 a.m. Sunday.

The following reports were gathered at the Georgetown Police, County Sheriff's and Andrews Police Departments.

Voters in the city of Georgetown will go to the polls tomorrow to choose Democratic nominees in the primary races for mayor and three city council seats.

Democratic candidates for Georgetown City Council say they want to curb what they see as wasteful government spending.

The following incidents were recently reported to the Georgetown County Sheriff's Office and Georgetown police.