Sumter News

Vandals struck the Sumter Little Theatre at Patriot Hall some time Monday night or early Tuesday morning, leaving behind unintelligible spray painted scrawlings that police said caused about $500 in damage.

William McCoy looks like a perfectly healthy, normal guy until you take a closer look.

Everywhere a Sumter single father of three goes, he wonders if he's come face to face with the person who shot him in his front yard two and a half weeks ago.

A Sumter woman has been charged after a Greyhound bus she was driving ran a red light in North Carolina and struck a pickup truck, killing the truck's driver, police said.

A mobile home near Dalzell was destroyed by an early Sunday fire that authorities are calling "suspicious." The owner of the trailer at 4520 Dawson Road told the Sumter County Sheriff's Office that it had been vacant for two weeks.

Gina Vasselli / The Item Bridge construction on U.S. 76/378 is about 43 percent complete and will continue through 2010.

A 25-year-old woman was charged with financial transaction card theft on Monday by investigators from the Sumter Police Department's Financial Crimes Unit, a release said.

A Sumter County man has died after being hit by a truck as he walked along the side of the road Saturday night.

Police have arrested a man in the shooting death of a South Carolina toddler. Sumter Police Chief Patty Patterson said Monday that 18-year-old Asherdon Fari Holloway of Sumter was arrested in Georgia last week and charged with murder.

A person is dead after an accident in Sumter County. Investigators say Saturday night at 9:10 PM, Robert Dukes was driving a 1988 Ford Pick-up truck eastbound down SC-446. A pedestrian, wearing dark shirt and pants, was walking westbound on the shoulder of the highway.

A 47-year-old woman was arrested early Saturday morning after she reportedly led Sumter County deputies on a chase into Kershaw County, where stop sticks were used to flatten her tires, and batons were used to smash her windows and extricate her.

Shockwaves are reverberating among the Sumter legislative delegates in the wake of Gov.

One of two suspects in a Wednesday evening fatal shooting turned himself in on Monday, Sumter County Sheriff Anthony Dennis said.

Gov. Mark Sanford's Wednesday afternoon admission of infidelity prompted a variety of responses from Sumterites.

Sumter County residents will see a five mill decrease in property taxes this year.

A man who first reported seeing a lizardlike swamp creature in Lee County 21 years ago has been shot and killed in what authorities say was an apparent drug-related incident.

Sumter Police have arrested a teenager who fatally shot a man in his home Wednesday.

A 15-year-old Sumter girl died Monday afternoon after the sport-utility vehicle she was driving ran off U.S. 76/378 in eastern Richland County and rolled over several times, ejecting her, police said.

Two crimes shook Sumter County residents late last night, and police are still searching for the perpetrators, according to Sumter County Sheriff Anthony Dennis.

Police have made no arrests in the case of a 37-year-old Sumter man shot to death Wednesday.