Ott said after months of public meetings all over the county, he’s ready to present two design options to council for approval.

Students marched through campus of with signs and chants loud enough for the entire campus to hear.

The 911 calls from the Sept. 26 murder-suicide attempt in the North Myrtle Beach Lowe’s parking lot were made public Tuesday. Police charged Robert Parker in his wife’s murder Tuesday.

Timmonsville officials are working to find $40,500 to pay an overdue bill for a police car the town purchased four years ago.

Finances were among the topics at Darlington City Council on Tuesday night and city manager Rodney Langley has dispatched a memo to department heads telling them to batten down the financial hatches.

A North Carolina man died Tuesday after he lost control of his motorcycle and struck a road sign on Interstate 20.

The Byerly Foundation is accepting concept letters for the first cycle of grant funding of the 2008/2009 year through Oct. 30, 2008. The foundation board will review the proposals and will begin awarding accepted grants during December. 

Hartsville, S.C. — Portrait artist Patricia Bell Hargrove of Asheville, N.C., received the 2008 Outstanding Young Alumni Award at Coker College’s homecoming this weekend. She was selected by the Coker College Alumni Association for her artistic talent and entrepreneurial skills. 

A storeowner near Hartsville was attacked Monday night and fired two shots from a pistol at the fleeing suspect.

Musings of The Old Drone: Column for October 8, 2008

With heavy rains mosquito populations have increased, but citizens can do a lot to getting bitten.

Anyone finding a dead crow or blue jay should submit it to a local DHEC county environmental health office, says DHEC.

Lake City is mourning the loss of Eugene T. “Gene” Moore Jr., who died Sunday after devoting his life to sports, education and the community.

Traveling through Lake City in either direction on U.S. Highway 52, there are no signs designating which intersecting street is Main Street. 

The Lower Florence County Relay for Life organizers are preparing for the 2008 Relay for Live event.

Guest speaker Mrs. Kevin Munn Lassen will present a program titled “The Families of Red Doe Plantation” at the Pee Dee Chapter, S. C. Genealogical Society, meeting on Sunday, Oct. 12.

Shooting for a television commercial was conducted today at Marion Intermediate School. Twenty-five third, fourth and fifth-graders represented the school’s students in the commercial.

Though some say newspapers’ deaths are imminent, there may be a place for them in the technological future.