Sumter News

Chris Moore / The Item Sumter Police officers and investigators talk with the clerk of the Young's Food Store on Oswego Highway on Thursday morning following a robbery at the convenience store.

Sumter City-County Planning Commission approved a 64-unit townhouse development on eight acres of Rast Street land at its Wednesday meeting, among other actions.

Keith Gedamke / The Item Lance Cpl. Alexander Richardson checks what was a Ford Ranger after a train collided with the truck at the intersection of St.

The Sumter chapter of Disabled American Veterans met Tuesday night for a meeting atypical of its usual monthly meetings.

Photo provided Some of the counterfeit items nabbed in and undercover operation by the Sumter City-County Drug Team are seen.

Keith Gedamke / The Item Members of Sumter County Council listen to the public's input on the capital penny sales tax during their meeting Tuesday.

The city of Sumter will be performing fire hydrant flow tests on Wednesday in the following areas: Myrtle Beach Highway from Liberty Street to the U.S. 76/378 bypass, Craig Road, Mims Road, Radical Road, ...

Keith Gedamke / The Item Sumter Police officers converge outside Domino's Pizza on Miller Road shortly after 5 p.m. Monday after a robbery there.

Sumter police say they have arrested a man in connection with a Friday morning murder.

Orangeburg a small agricultural city? No way. Of the 10 biggest manufacturing plants in central South Carolina, it's the only one, including Columbia, which can claim two.

What happens after you toss your trash? Some may think it stinky, smelly and sordid, but it's a job that must be done.

Chris Moore / The Item William A. McKenzie, 23, was found lying in the road at this address on Highland Avenue about 12:30 a.m. Friday with a gunshot wound to his chest.

Sumter Police are investigating a homicide which took place early Friday morning.

Chris Moore / The Item William A. McKenzie, 23, was found lying outside 123 Highland Ave.

Friday, July 18, 2008 at 4:08 p.m. Sumter County Deputies are investigating what they are calling an apparent murder suicide in a Dalzell home involving a middle aged married couple.

Sumter police say a man was shot and killed early Friday morning. A news release states that at around 12:30am, officers from the Sumter Police Department responded to Highland Ave.

Sumter County Sheriff Anthony Dennis says the shooting deaths of a man and woman in Dalzell was an apparent murder-suicide. Dennis told The Item of Sumter that it appears 52-year-old Kurt Edward Kern shot ...

Sumter County officials are investigating two deaths in an apparent murder-suicide. Sheriff Anthony Dennis says sheriff's deputies received about a woman who hadn't been heard from in 2 days.

Keith Gedamke / The Item New and improved: Sumter's transportation center is the largest public transit restoration project in the state.

Sumter deputies have arrested a Wedgefield man, after they say he stabbed a 33-year-old Sumter man in the stomach four times, and turned himself in Monday evening.