The S.C. Highway Patrol is asking the public to help find the driver of a pickup truck that struck a moped near Paxville on Thursday night and did not stop. The crash happened at about 7:33 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 12, on S.C. Highway 261 at McLeod Road. Troopers said the truck hit the moped while
Clarendon County could see its first freeze of the fall Saturday night, and the cold air is arriving without the rain the county's fields and pastures need. The National Weather Service office in Columbia on Friday, Nov. 13, put Clarendon and much of central South Carolina under a frost advisory from 3 a.m. to 8
The Board of Voter Registration and Elections of Clarendon County will hold a public hearing at 10 a.m. Monday, Nov. 16, on Republican Kimberly Herbert's written protest of alleged voting-access problems at the Davis Station precinct in the Nov. 3 auditor's race, which she lost by 147 votes, just outside the automatic recount threshold. According
The Justice Department announced Tuesday that 36 people have been charged in a multi-state Homeland Security Task Force investigation of a Mexico-based drug trafficking and money laundering organization that has operated in South Carolina since at least 2011. Nine of those charged are illegal aliens, the department said. U.S. Attorney Bryan Stirling said the investigation
Cody Simpson, a Home Branch native and South Carolina's next commissioner of agriculture, says his election brings the state's top agriculture office back to Clarendon County for the first time in more than two decades. Simpson, a Republican, defeated Democrat DeShawn Blanding, who is from the Silver community, in the Nov. 3 general election. Statewide,
A driver died at the scene early Monday, Nov. 9, after an SUV overturned on U.S. Highway 15 in Clarendon County, according to the S.C. Highway Patrol. Two passengers in the vehicle were not hurt. The wreck happened at 4:20 a.m. on U.S. 15, also called St. Paul Road, where it meets Gale Road. Troopers
MANNING — The Manning Police Department fired officer Alexander Dukes on Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2026. In 2010, the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office dismissed Dukes after nearly 15 years of service. About five months later, the Manning Police Department hired him. His 2026 dismissal followed a State Law Enforcement Division review connected to his son, Antwone
MANNING — The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has confirmed highly pathogenic avian influenza — bird flu, Eurasian H5 — in a bald eagle in Clarendon County. The confirmation was recorded Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2026. The bird was found sick or dead and submitted by a private submitter; a collection
