Marlboro County News

By way of introduction, I am a retired Assistant Director with SLED and I have known and worked along side Sheriff Fred Knight for approximately 35 years, having met him early in his and my career.

Even though it still has one of the highest unemployment rates in South Carolina, Union County's unemployment rate continued to decline in April.

MARLBORO COUNTY, SC A 42-year-old man charged with murder in connection to a 2010 shooting in Marlboro County pleaded guilty in court Thursday.

Believed to be one of Marlboro County's largest marijuana dealers, a Wallace man was arrested last Friday at his home where drugs, cash and guns were found.

Three Maxton, N.C., residents were charged last week as part of a law enforcement raid on a cockfighting ring in South Carolina.

Even though it still has one of the highest unemployment rates in South Carolina, Union County's unemployment rate continued to decline in April.

In May 2010, Samer Hussein, 44, was killed during a robbery at his Kwik Stop convenience store on Marshall Street in Bennettsville.

Read more: Local , News , South Carolina , South Carolina Election Lawsuit , More Candidates Removed from SC Primary Ballot , South Carolina Primary , Johnny Sellers , Charles English , Ryan Mackey , Marlboro County Sheriff , Marlboro County Council , SC House District 54 Circuit Court Judge Paul Burch ordered the names of three candidates to beA ... (more)

The state's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate declined for the ninth consecutive month.

A North Carolina woman is dead after a single-car collision that occurred Wednesday morning on Family Farm Road in McColl.

Marlboro County Sheriff Knight announces the conviction and guilty plea of the last two defendants in the latest federal drug case investigated by the Marlboro County Sheriffs Office and FBI.

Preliminary autopsy reports show no obvious reason -- internal or external -- why a 30-year-old Evans Correctional Institution inmate should have died.

Read more: Local , News , Marlboro County , Marlboro County Democrats , Primary , Primary Ballot , South Carolina Primary , South Carolina Primary Ballot , Three Marlboro County Democrats Back on Primary Ballot , Charles English , Ryan Mackey , Johnny Sellers The Public Information Officer for theA South Carolina Election Commission , Chris ... (more)

To hear some advocates say it, the Big Garbage industry is looking to turn South Carolina into America's dumpster.

A North Carolina man in prison at Evans Correctional Institution died Tuesday morning.

Read more: Local , News , Inmate , Summerville , Marlboro County , 911 Dispatcher Admits to Having Sex with Inmate , State Law Enforcement Division , 911 Dispatcher , Marlboro County 911 Emergency Center , Nicole Summerville The State Law Enforcement Division says Nicole Summerville, 27, of Clio, admitted she had sex with an inmate about ten times ... (more)

According to the SLED press release, between January 2011 and August 2011, Parham was a worker with the Marlboro County Maintenance Crew and had a controlled substance in his possession and was a violation of S.C. Code of Laws.