Williamsburg County News

According to the Highway Patrol, 13 people killed on South Carolina roads over the past week were not wearing seatbelts.

Attorney General Henry McMaster announced on Friday that warrants have been issued for 36 people charged for their involvement in two cockfighting operations in Lexington and Williamsburg Counties .

Eighteen suspended bus drivers will soon be on the roads again for the Williamsburg County School District.

Friends of the Florence County Library will present "True Places: A Lowcountry Preacher, His Church and His People" by Stanley F. Lanzano at 6:30 p.m. Thursday in the Drs.

Two Williamsburg County children were killed after a car their mother was driving overturned in a field Saturday afternoon.

Kingstree police and Williamsburg County Sheriffa TMs deputies are in the midst of unraveling a web of burglaries that involve two teenage boys.

According to reports from South Carolina Highway Patrol, a single car collision approximately six miles east of Kingstree in Williamsburg County Saturday afternoon left a 10 year old girl and a three year old boy dead.

Four people have been arrested in connection with the Oct. 30 shooting death of a Kingstree businessman, Williamsburg County Chief Deputy Sheriff Michael Johnson said.

Emergency crews are responding to a fuel spill at the intersection of Highway 17A and Saints Delight Road in the Oceda Community.

The National Weather Service in Wilmington, NC has issued a Flood Warning for Horry County, Georgetown County, Williamsburg County, Marion County and Florence County until 11:30 a.m. Wednesday.

Two men and two women are now in custody in connection with the recent shooting death and death of Ernest William Prosser.

A police manhunt has been launched for two men in Clarendon County after officials say one of them tried to run over a sheriff's deputy with a stolen truck.

A portion S.C. highway 261 in Williamsburg County near Kingstree was closed Thursday night following a one vehicle crash, S.C. Highway Patrol and Williamsburg County dispatch reports show.

After a year-long cock-fighting investigation, federal investigators charged 21 people for their involvement in two ventures operated in South Carolina, according to a release from the U.S. Attorneya TMs Office.

One ballot wasn't enough to find a winner for the Seat 5 on Kingstree Town Council.

Live Oak Medical Center, located at the edge of the Black River at 342 West Main Street, Kingstree, opened its doors to the community after an October 30, ribbon cutting.

Holiday Food Boxes St. Ann Outreach Center at 908 Thorne Avenue will be holding interviews for holiday food boxes for Thanksgiving and/or Christmas.

Seventeen bus drivers with the Williamsburg County School District didn't make afternoon pickups Friday as part of what district officials said may be the start of a district wide bus drivers strike.

Funeral services for Joseph Edward a oeJoea Williams, conducted by the Rev. Jimmy Brockington, were held Friday, October 23, 2009, at Marion Missionary Baptist Church in Salters.

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