House Speaker Murrell Smith, R-Sumter, shakes hands with military veteran Ernest Martin at the ribbon cutting ceremony for the Patriot's Village veterans' nursing home. (Shaun Chornobroff/SC Daily ...

SUMTER, S.C. — A Sumter County teacher has been charged after allegedly slapping a student who was sleeping in an office chair. Police say on Jan. 9, they responded to an assault call at Prisma ...

An investigation is underway following the Tuesday night death of a South Carolina man, according to the Sumter County Coroner’s Office. Christopher Abrams, a 56-year-old Sumter County resident ...