UPDATE: The Sumter County Sheriff's Office says Joseph Brown was captured near County Road 675 late Sunday night. Original story below: BUSHNELL, Fla. — An inmate has escaped from the Sumter County ...

The Sumter County Fair returns next week, bringing 10 days of family-friendly fun, entertainment and community tradition for all ages.

SUMTER COUNTY, S.C. (WIS) - The Sumter County Sheriff’s Office (SCSO) is investigating after an 8-week old fetus was found at a Sumter County water treatment plant on Friday morning. According to SCSO ...

AMERICUS, Ga. — [UPDATE: 2/12/26 10:48 P.M.] The Sumter County Sheriff’s Office announced the capture of two escaped inmates. Officials say that Kentravious Holmes and Rickey Martin were captured on ...

SUMTER COUNTY, Ga. — Two murder suspects are on the run Monday morning after escaping from the Sumter County jail on Sunday, which is just outside Central Georgia, according to a post from the sheriff ...

Not all Unionists believed that war was inevitable. Some, in fact, were happy to be done with the departing South and thus see their stain of slavery gone from the Union. Similarly, others agreed that ...

The National Park Service reportedly removed a sign informing visitors of the threat of climate change at the historic Fort Sumter site in South Carolina, where the Civil War began. The New York Times ...

The historic site, on an island in South Carolina, could be inundated by rising seas in decades to come. A display on the threat has been removed. By Maxine Joselow Reporting from Washington Fort ...

ROAD. MORE AHEAD. YOUR FIRST WARNING TRAFFIC RIGHT NOW AT 831. WE ARE FOLLOWING BREAKING NEWS IN SUMTER COUNTY. THE SCHOOL DISTRICT SAYS A FORMER PARAPROFESSIONAL AT WILDWOOD MIDDLE HIGH SCHOOL GOT ...

CHARLESTON — When the government shut down Oct. 1, tours to Fort Sumter abruptly ceased, as funding to staff national parks across the country was cut off. But the Charleston excursions to and from ...

TALLAHASSEE — State Rep. John Temple, a veteran educator and political ally of Gov. Ron DeSantis, was selected Thursday to become president of Lake-Sumter State College. The Lake-Sumter Board of ...

The Pocotaligo River in Sumter and Clarendon counties has some of the highest levels of toxic forever chemicals in the state. It was recently found to have high levels compared to other rivers across ...