Sumter News

Coach Bruce Weber announced Bolden's decision Friday. Bolden will sit out next season as required by the NCAA, but has three years of eligibility remaining.

Billy Don and Ann Wilson sat in beach chairs beside the dance floor at the annual Pawleys Pavilion Reunion on Saturday as the old familiar music carried them back in time to the night they met - at the pavilion.

The Legislature elected a House member's father to the Medical University of South Carolina board after he agreed to pay higher property taxes at his beach home.

The military base said in a statement it would not have the "Jammy July 4th" that normally takes place at Dillon Park.

Remember back in the day when you were a kid going on a school field trip? Or, perhaps more recently when you may have been a parent-chaperone or a teacher in charge of a class? Those were exciting, fun times, just being away from the classroom and on an adventure to see and experience new places and things.

He's a committed member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has a part-time job and is planning to head off to Brazil in July for two years on his church mission.

In its first year, a special South Carolina law enforcement unit that investigates criminal cases against illegal immigrants has been successful, according to its commander.

SHAW AIR FORCE BASE Army civilian personnel specialist Tracey Leven recalls the time she tried to use a breast pump to express milk in a military office years ago.

He's a committed member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has a part-time job and is planning to head off to Brazil in July for two years on his church mission.

After a four-week trial in Columbia, a federal jury on Wednesday found that Tuomey Healthcare System signed doctors to lucrative, part-time contracts to ensure that they would get referral fees associated with those physicians' procedures, according to a report by The Item of Sumter .

The Item of Sumter reports a federal jury found Wednesday that Tuomey Healthcare System signed doctors to part-time contracts to ensure that they would get referral fees associated with those physicians' procedures.

Concerned with the potential loss of an estimated $2.4 million dollars over 3 months to the Sumter economy, federal workers and citizens gathered in Sumter to rally against the sequestration.

COLUMBIA, SC - He spent much of his life in New York state, but at heart, Purdy Walker was always a South Carolina kind of guy.

The story of three women who had been missing for about a decade and were found alive Monday in a home in downtown Cleveland has given new hope to families of missing persons everywhere, including on the Grand Strand and in the Pee Dee.

A pilot program through Verizon Wireless is allowing medically homebound students to attend class using innovative four-and-a-half foot robots.

A new U.S. Census report finds that a North Carolina city is No. 2 in the country for its percentage of recent unmarried mothers, and two South Carolina cities are in the Top 10.

Lexie Kinder has a desk in her third grade classroom at Alice Drive Elementary School in Sumter, South Carolina.

SUMTER -- An inmate at the jail for Sumter and Lee counties has died after being found hanged in his cell.

An Orangeburg man has been charged with conspiring to kill a South Carolina prison guard wounded in a hit authorities have said was orchestrated behind bars with an illegal cellphone.

The county formally released the names of the three Monday – after refusing to do so last week when asked by a reporter with The State newspaper, in violation of the S.C. Freedom of Information Act.