Clarendon County News

Residents of Clarendon County School District 3 are organizing a petition and a prayer walk to protest a recent sex survey given to middle-school students in Districts 3 and 2. Keri Ann McElveen, the mother of ...

Local firefighters are being recognized as part of the state's Firefighter Appreciation Weekend and Fire Prevention Week activities sponsored by the Office of State Fire Marshal and EdVenture Children's Museum.

Controversy continues to rage in Clarendon County over a sex survey administered to middle-school students, but not all parents are against it.

A woman is killed in an accident on I-95 southbound just south of exit 115 in Manning early Wednesday morning.

Fury is building over a sex survey submitted to middle school students in Clarendon School Districts 2 and 3. The survey, which was given to children as young as 11, contained graphic sexual content.

A questionnaire submitted to middle-school students in Clarendon County is causing an uproar among parents.

The Clarendon Joint Water and Sewer Agency, which since March has been a collective desire of Clarendon County Council and several municipalities within the county, came one step closer to reality Monday night ...

Although Clarendon County Council called a special meeting Monday afternoon to discuss development in the old Royal Oak section of the county - now known as Eagle Cove - it discussed other matters.

Alligator hunting season in South Carolina officially began last week, and a Sumter man sent News19 pictures of his most recent conquest: a record-breaking 13-foot, seven-inch alligator.

Of the 100 active Red Cross volunteers in the tri-county area, Debbie Kirven is the sole Lee County representative.

A Summerton man already facing criminal sexual conduct charges in Clarendon County was rearrested Sept.

A 25-year-old man arrested in Oklahoma after an alleged multi-state crime spree has been linked to the June assault of a woman at a Columbia Road bank, police say.

Photo provided Bertha Gardner Bynum, 109, is in good health for her age - no high blood pressure and no diabetes.

Patrons attending private functions on county-owned property won't have to worry about paying cash for alcoholic drinks anymore.

By the time you read this, Hurricane Hanna will be history, but as I write, it is still very present and alarming.

As forecasters warned that Hanna has the potential to make landfall Friday in South Carolina as a Category 1 or 2 hurricane, emergency management officials in the tri-county area took notice.

Item file photo The Pocotaligo Swamp on the East side of Twelve Bridges Road before restoration began.

Gail Mathis / The Item The Palms at Wyboo restaurant, located at 2576 Players Course Drive in Manning, sustained an estimated $175,000 in damage after a fire early Monday.

As part of the Sober or Slammer campaign, law enforcement agencies from the 3rd Judicial Circuit Law Enforcement Network, including the Sumter County Sheriff's Office and Sumter Police Department, will be out ...

Joe Perry / The Item Jefferson Isaac, 74, crouches alongside his 162-pound pumpkin on his farm in Gable recently.