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

Deacon Charles White was born May 11, 1950, in Sumter, to the late Daniel and Mamie Washington White Sr. Charles transitioned ...

Ruby Frances Madry O’Neal, 103, widow of Joseph Millard O’Neal Jr., died Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026, at Covenant Place in Sumter. Born Dec. 17, 1922, in Scotland Neck, North Carolina, she was a ...

"I learned a lot that I have never known before," said Sumterite Audrey James, "as he was speaking, the speaker was saying that you… ( Read more) Starting TOMORROW: Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer ...

A deadly shooting during a youth hockey game in Rhode Island last week has claimed a third victim, a grandfather whose daughter and grandson were also killed in the attack, ...

Lillie Haynesworth Hickmon Hackney, wife of Robert Louis Hackney, was born on April 10, 1934, to the late Earl Haynesworth ...

After School Programs held its Civic Engagement Night for parents and the broader public at M.H. Newton Family Life Center.

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

Deloris McCray Bells, 63, wife of Luther Bells Jr. and daughter of the late Arthur Wilson Sr. and Pearl McCray Wilson, was ...

ABIGAIL PITTMAN / THE SUMTER ITEM.The Laurence Manning Academy (LMA) boys’ basketball team plays at Wilson Hall in the second ...

The FBI is serving search warrants at the Los Angeles Unified School District's headquarters and the superintendent's home. Federal officials in Los Angeles were serving the ...

Day one of the second regular-season Major League Fishing (MLF) Tackle Warehouse Pro Circuit Presented by MillerTech event of 2026 set for Thursday, Feb. 26 – the Tackle ...