U.S. Navy Sailors on  the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Thomas Hudner (DDG 116)  support Operation Epic ...

Dollar General is excited to announce its store at 811 Bethel Church Road in Sumter is now open to provide the community with convenient and affordable access to ...

South Carolina Highway Patrol is investigating a fatal wreck that occurred before noon on Friday, March 6, along I-95. The driver and passenger of a 1999 Ford Explorer were traveling on I-95 at 11 ...

Sumter school board Chairman Shawn Ragin's planned public charter school, RISE, finally has a home - at least temporary one - as a school official announced Friday that its "start-up campus" will be ...

Best of Sumter is an annual contest hosted by The Sumter Item.

My son took out a couple of education loans, which I cosigned when he was starting college 10 years ago. A couple of years ago, I found out (from someone else) that he never finished ...

U.S. Air Force photos by Senior Airman Erin Dunkleberger Members of Leadership Sumter were given a tour of Shaw Air Force Base on Feb. 12, 2026, giving the professionals insight on different facets of ...

My husband vapes in our home, and I have run out of ways to get it through his thick skull that this is unhealthy, not only for his health, but for mine. Even more upsetting is that he vapes when our ...

On Saturday, Feb. 17, Dr. James Munford and Knowledge for College partnered with the Bishopville-Manning-Shaw Air Force Base Alumni Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc. and provided groceries to ...

CLARENDON COUNTY - The final day, Feb. 28, of the Tackle Warehouse Pro Circuit Presented by MillerTech finally started on time and went a lot better for most of the field. Stop 2 Presented by Star ...

A small plane attempting an emergency landing crashed into the frigid Hudson River, but the pilot and a passenger escaped the ...

E Super Hornet, attached to Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 151, prepares to launch from the flight deck of Nimitz-class ...