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MARLBORO COUNTY, S.C. (WMBF) – One person was arrested, and another was hurt after a shooting at a Marlboro County home. Deputies were called to a shooting just after midnight Sunday at a home on Coattail Road in the Bennettsville area. When deputies arrived, they said they found a...

MARLBORO COUNTY, S.C. (WPDE) — Two teens who escaped Sunday from AMI Kids on Marlboro Way in Bennettsville are now back in custody, according to Marlboro County Chief Deputy Larry Turner. Turner said a Bennettsville police officer spotted the teens in a field across from his home. He added...

A Wallace man has been charged in an early Sunday morning shooting. The Marlboro County Sheriff’s Office responded to a residence on Coattail Road in the Bennettsville area of Marlboro County after midnight on Sunday about a shooting incident. Upon arrival, deputies with the Uniformed Patrol Division located an...

Members of the Bennettsville-Cheraw Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. ended its 2021-2022 year with the installation of new officers for the next biennium. Newly elected officers are Lynn C. Henry, President (elected another term); Andrea R. McLeod, first vice president; Kimberly Dease, second vice president; Callie Ellerbe, correspondence secretary; Eunice Ray, financial secretary; Yolonda DuPree, internal audit chair; and Vanessa Pearson, chair of the nominating committee; LaRhonda Alford, recording secretary; and Braber Spell, treasurer. Karen Clark, past president served as installation officer.

A Bennettsville man was arrested after a knife assault early Sunday morning on Brushy Bay Road. According to Investigator Clay Anderson, the Marlboro County Sheriff’s Office responded to a residence on Brushy Bay Road in the Bennettsville area of the county at 2:05 a.m. on Sunday about an assault with a knife.

BENNETTSVILLE, S.C. (WBTW) — One person was shot and another taken into custody early Sunday morning in Bennettsville, according to the Marlboro County Sheriff’s Office. A man was shot at about 1 a.m. at a home on Coattail Road, according to authorities. He was taken to a hospital and is expected to survive. The man […]

Melieon Bowman’s job at Walmart used to be enough for his family of four to get by. But the rising costs of gasoline, groceries and just about everything else has forced him to take on odd jobs — “whatever will give me any kind of money I can get,” he said.

MARLBORO COUNTY, S.C. (WMBF) - Deputies are investigating a shooting that happened early Sunday in part of the Pee Dee. The Marlboro County Sheriff’s Office said it responded to a shooting at around 1 a.m. on Coattail Road in the Bennettsville area. Officials said one man was taken to...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - Miss Hartsville took home top honors at the Miss South Carolina 2022 pageant Saturday night in Columbia. Jill Dudley was crowned Miss South Carolina at the Township Auditorium. Dudley, 22, from Socastee, attends the University of South Carolina. She performed the song “Never Enough” and was also a preliminary talent winner.

Miss Hartsville, Jill Dudley, was crowned Miss South Carolina 2022 in front of a cheering crowd at Township Auditorium in Columbia, SC, on Saturday, June 25, 2022. Dudley is a 22-year-old from Socastee and attends the University of South Carolina. For her talent she performed a vocal rendition to Never Enough. She was also a talent preliminary winner. She will receive a $60,000 scholarship and compete in the Miss America.

HAMLET — The twang of a banjo and backporch harmonies filled Main Street Park Sunday afternoon. Regional band The Axe Handlers belted out a mix of bluegrass and gospel music — with a little Creedence Clearwater Revival thrown in — for the third installment of the Boxcar Concert Series by Hamlet Depot and Museums.

LUGOFF-ELGIN, S.C. — A 3.4 magnitude earthquake Sunday morning around 1:32 a.m. is the 33rd and strongest quake to hit northeast of Columbia since Christmas 2021. People have reported feeling the earthquake from Aiken to Florence, SC and Charlotte, NC. There were two other earthquakes part of this swarm...

BENNETTSVILLE, S.C. (WBTW) — One person was stabbed early Sunday morning in the Bennettsville area, according to the Marlboro County Sheriff’s Office. The stabbing happening at 2:10 a.m. on Bushy Bay Road. A man was seriously injured and taken to the hospital, but is expected to survive, according to authorities. Another man, whose identity has […]

FLORENCE, S.C. (WPDE) — South Carolina Circuit Court Judge Craig Brown sentenced Larry Scipio, Jr. to life in prison Friday after a jury found him guilty of killing a man in 2019, according to Twelfth Circuit Solicitor Ed Clements. It happened at a home in the 3100 block of...

Classic Collision, LLC has announced two new closings — the acquisition of Jones Auto Wrecking Company in Florence, S.C. and Gabe’s Collision Center in San Antonio, Texas. Jones Auto Wrecking has been in business for more than a century. “We’re proud to be the oldest, most-trusted auto wrecking...

Duncan – Byrnes scored the go-ahead touchdown with about two minutes to play and linebacker Miguel Dingle had a spectacular game clinching interception to lead the Rebels past Independence High out of Charlotte, 20-10 to win the Palmetto Showdown for a 6th time. Byrnes quarterback Colby Shaw tossed touchdown passes to Chamarryus Bomar & Q […]

LUMBERTON — Two people lost their lives in separate crashes during the weekend including a victim in a hit-and-run. Jimmy Loc

Even though the state auditor’s office released an investigative report last fall exposing financial violations of officials in the small town of East Laurinburg, an old textile mill town near the South Carolina border, the district attorney for Scotland County has so far declined to pursue a criminal case against the town’s former financial officer concerning the report’s recommended charges of embezzlement.

HAMLET — Police have charged a man with drug trafficking following a traffic stop last week. According to a Facebook post from the Hamlet Police Department, officers stopped a vehicle around 12:43 a.m. June 23 for an unspecified violation when a passenger jumped out and ran. Officers continued the...