The 26-year-old has played the mobile game Pokémon Go every day for a decade, watches the animated show every week, goes to ...

After a multi-agency investigation, Sumter Police Department charged two men in connection to an armed robbery of a local ...

The Lakewood football team is once again in search of a head coach. Willie Offord, who took over the program in 2023, accepted the head coaching job at A.C. Flora this week. He leaves the Gators with ...

A man who authorities said was high on methamphetamine and hadn't slept for days when he killed five people inside a home frequented by drug users was sentenced to life ...

Van Joe Dennis Mickens, 91, widow of James Wilson Mickens and daughter of the late Purvis Dennis Sr. and Mabel Graham Dennis, was born on Nov. 19, 1934, in Sumter County.  She departed this life ...

Bambi Nicole Campbell Shelley, age 59, beloved wife of 34 years to Steven Mark Shelley, passed away on Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2026, at Prisma Health Richland Hospital. A graveside service will be ...

Hammie Lewis Duncan departed this life on Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2026, after a brief illness under MUSC Hospice Care. He was born in Lee County, South Carolina, on Nov. 1, 1945, to the late Rev. Henry ...

Sumter School District is currently down one high school principal after Jayson Leach resigned recently from Crestwood High School. Leach decided to resign from his position on Feb. 12 "due to ...

SAFE continues construction on its ATM service building on McCrays Mill Road in Sumter on Feb. 17.

Phil Collins, Lauryn Hill, INXS, Iron Maiden, Luther Vandross and Shakira get Rock Hall nominations NEW YORK (AP) — Phil ...

A federal judge on Thursday rejected a preservationist group's request to block the Trump administration from continuing ...

Ernest Rembert, 88, son of the late Willie Rembert and Gardenia Willis Rembert, was born on Jan. 17, 1938, in Sumter. He departed this life on Friday, Feb. 20, 2026, at Sumter East Health and ...