Latta News

The South Carolina Highway Patrol is investigating what led to a fatal accident in Marion County late Friday evening.

A Dillon County sheriff's deputy is facing a criminal domestic violence charge, Dillon County Sheriff Major Hulon said.

Latta DECA honors local veterans, past and present, during a Veterans' Day celebration Nov.

Tobacco farming was once a way of life for many in the Pee Dee region. Today, farmlands in this area are no longer dominated by tobacco, though traces of the crops past dominance are evident.

In nine years as a school resource officer at Latta High School, Crystal Moore has been has been involved in some pretty scary situations with students.

Lillian Marshall Coleman and John Clarke Newton, both of Columbia, were married October 17, 2009, at the home of the bride's grandmother in Latta.

A New York man accused of leading law enforcement officers on a 30-mile chase down Interstate 95 in a dump truck more than three years ago has pleaded guilty but mentally ill to assault on a law enforcement officer and failure to stop for a blue light.

Beulah Marie Baggett Mims of Turbeville always knew and appreciated her father's yearlong service in the Confederate Army.

Candice Hardwick filed suit in 2006 against her school district in Latta, S.C., for not allowing her to wear clothing containing Confederate emblems.

A former South Carolina mayor who pleaded guilty to misconduct last year has pleaded not guilty to Social Security fraud charges against him.

Mr. and Mrs. Harold J Kornblut of Latta announce the engagement of their daughter Dr.

Saturday, September 26, 2009 at 9:25 p.m. Four teens have been arrested in the Pee Dee after police say a pizza delivery person was held up at gun point.

Trials aren't the only things going on inside the walls of the historic Dillon County Courthouse these days.

Worker bees belonging to one of Jim Allen's hundreds of hives rest Thursday near the opening of the hive.

Latta police said 4 teenagers are in custody after participating in an armed robbery that police said was gang related.

U.S. District Judge Terry Wooten ruled last week that school officials in Dillon County had acted reasonably in compelling a teenage student to not wear clothing with images of the Confederate flag, the Associated Press reported.

A judge has decided in favor of Dillon School District 3 in Latta in a 2006 lawsuit involving clothing bearing the Confederate flag, district officials said.

In this March 30, 2006 file photo, Candice Michele Hardwick, center, and her parents, Daryl and Priscilla, hold up some of the T-shirts that the Latta school officials deemed were disruptive, during a news conference at the federal courthouse in Florence, S.C. A federal judge has sided with a South Carolina school district in a lawsuit by a student ...

Sunday, September 06, 2009 at 7:18 p.m. A s folks prepare to get back on the roads and depart the Grand Strand after the Labor Day Weekend , the South Carolina Department of Transportation wants to warn that delays should be expected on one of the major roadways in our area.

A federal judge in Virginia has denied a conservation group's challenge to the environmental studies for a 72-mile section of Interstate 73, though the organization may appeal.