South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster has proclaimed January as Radon Action Month, and the South Carolina Department of ...

U.S. forces boarded another oil tanker in the Caribbean Sea, according to the U.S. military on Friday, as the Trump ...

President Donald Trump is meeting with oil executives at the White House on Friday in hopes of securing $100 billion in ...

Best of Sumter is back again, celebrating 26 years of awarding Sumter's favorites in 2026. Nominations for The Sumter Item's ...

Stacker compiled a ranking of the coldest Januarys in South Carolina since 1895 using data from the National Centers for ...

About 60 area K-12 teachers, administrators and retired educators attended the Kids First Mind Brain Education Professional ...

Judge dismisses Salt-N-Pepa's lawsuit to reclaim master recordings from Universal Music Group NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge ...

After the winter holiday break, Sumter school board gets back on its regular two-meetings-per-month schedule on Monday, but it is a relatively light agenda following public participation. Public ...

Wesley Phillip Hayden, age 62, died on Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2026, at his home.  Services will be held at a later date.  You may go to and sign the ...

Frederick Lamont Robinson, 41, son of John Henry Dinkins and Cindy Mae Robinson Dinkins, was born on Feb. 27, 1984, in Sumter. He departed this life on Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026 at Prisma Health Tuomey ...

Grealy Buckman Jr., 82, companion of Christine H. Wilder and son of the late Grealy Buckman Sr. and Ruth Dickerson Buckman, was born on April 20, 1943, in Pinewood.  He departed this life on ...

NASA canceled its first spacewalk of the year and may bring its crew back early from the International Space Station due to ...