Sumter County News

Gov. Nikki Haley was so coy during her 2010 campaign about whether she supported helping companies who locate in South Carolina that the chamber of commerce in this very Republican state took the unusual step of endorsing her Democratic rival.

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Gov. Nikki Haley was so coy during her 2010 campaign about whether she supported helping companies who locate in South Carolina that the chamber of commerce in this very Republican state took the unusual step of endorsing her Democratic rival.

Brandon Graves, 27, was last seen on January 31, 2010 in Sumter. If you have any information on his disappearance, please contact the Sumter County Sheriff's Office or the CUE Center for Missing Persons.

Authorities in Spartanburg County have charged a woman with child neglect after she showed up at a stranger's home with her 2-year-old son sleeping nude in the car's floorboard.

Health officials say the number of people sickened by salmonella from a soy product often used as a meat substitute has topped 80.

Sumter County deputies say a man was killed in a home invasion at a house where investigators also found a large amount of cocaine and cash.

Columbia, SC - Sumter County Sheriff's Deputies say a shooting occured around 4:30 Sunday morning at a nightclub on Broad Street in Sumter.

SUMTER A man is dead after someone broke into a house and shot him Friday, according to Captain Allen Dailey, Sumter County Sheriff's Office.

The second annual Chuck Nesbitt Memorial Blood Drive took place at the Sumter County Public Library from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Nesbitt was an officer with the Sumter Police Department.

Investigators say two people found dead in a ditch beside a wrecked car in Hardeeville both suffered gunshot wounds to the head.

For almost two decades Dail Dinwiddie has been missing. Shortly before we spoke with Dan and Jean Dinwiddie, they marked what would have been, or might have been, Dail's 43rd birthday.

LEXINGTON, SC - A WIS viewer recently found a female beagle in Red Bank, in the Spring Knoll subdivision behind White Knoll High School.

South Carolina's recent success in attracting new industry and jobs to the state is worth celebrating.

The Sumter County Veterans Association will place flags on more than 4,000 veteran graves throughout Sumter County on Saturday, May 26.

Bond was set at $50,000 for a former sheriff's deputy accused of beating and shooting at his wife.

Fifty-four-year-old Benny Webb of Sumter was arrested Thursday by the State Law Enforcement Division and accused of third-degree assault and battery.

South Carolina's Democrats and Republicans received some clarity on Thursday from the state Supreme Court on a ruling that both parties fear could mean most candidates challenging incumbents would be kept off ballots for the June primary elections - thereby possibly enhancing the re-election chances of most incumbents.