Sumter County News

Keith Gedamke / The Item Medical crews load Rose Heyward, 63, onto a helicopter after she was struck by a van while crossing South Guignard Drive on Tuesday afternoon.

Keith Gedamke / The Item Maj. Newton Brown uses his computer to check on his crews twice daily in Texas who are working on hurricane relief.

Keith Gedamke / The Item Mark McCoy listens as Judge Howard P. King asks him several questions during his trial on Wednesday afternoon at the Sumter County Courthouse.

Investigators are considering sexual assault as a possible motive for Thursday's fatal shooting in Dalzell, and bond has been denied for the suspect.

Shirley received 53 percent '> Sumter election results Incumbents Superintendent of Schools Rick Shirley and School Board Member Ken Jones both won re-election Tuesday, Aug.

A 26-year-old Dalzell man was shot to death Thursday night, and his 28-year-old brother-in-law has been charged with murder.

In unrelated incidents, two people are dead and a man is in jail Friday. A Rembert man has been charged with the shooting death of his brother-in-law Friday.

Friday, September 19, 2008 at 6:03 p.m. A Sumter County man is dead after being gunned down by his brother-in-law, according to Deputies.

A Midlands family goes from cloud nine to dealing with an unimaginable tragedy when a boy who just started seventh grade is killed in a head-on collision in Sumter County.

Sumter County deputies have arrested a man they say shot and killed another man.

An accident in Sumter County on Wednesday night took the life of a 12-year-old Sumter child.

A Sumter County woman was summoned to court for a child support payment less than a dollar, due to the Sumter County Family Court's shift to a new computerized system.

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

Sumter County officials think they have a new way of saving the county money and the plan already seems to be working.

As Hurricane Ike moved north on Thursday, gas prices continued to rise. Gas in Sumter County, S.C., was as high as $5.23 a gallon.

A South Carolina man who shot three people to death during a weeklong murder spree in 2004 has been sentenced to death.

Gasoline prices are rising fast in the Midlands, and there are long lines out there--and even some stations running out of fuel.

It was the headline few in a Sumter County community will ever forget, "Man Shoots Two, Kills One." Now, the victim's girlfriend is speaking out for the very first time in hopes that you'll help find the man ...

The killer taunted investigators, scrawling in blood on one dead man's wall: "Victem #4 in 2 weeks.

The third day of Jerry Buck Inman's death penalty trial has begun this morning with the defense's first witness refusing to testify and after she said she felt uncomfortable testifying after the chief ...