Turkey escapes before getting pardoned

FLORENCE, S.C. − Florence police are investigating armed robbery of a Florence restaurant on Monday night.

LAKE CITY, S.C. − Florence County School District Three students went home early Tuesday and will go all virtual for the month of December as the school system tries to deal with COVID-19.

FLORENCE, S.C. — Four people were shot shortly after 6 p.m. Wednesday in Florence.

FLORENCE, S.C. — When T.J. Joye and James Hudson take office soon as sheriffs of Florence and Darlington counties, respectively, one of the challenges they’ll face is improving the relationship between African Americans and law enforcement. 

TIMMONSVILLE, S.C. — One person died in a predawn Saturday crash on Creek Road near Olive Lane.

FLORENCE, S.C. — Four people were shot shortly after 6 p.m. Wednesday in Florence.

FLORENCE, S.C. — Florence One Schools superintendent Richard O’Malley stumbled across what he termed an underground economy when he began investigating the structure of payments to the district’s bus drivers. 

DARLINGTON, S.C. — South Carolina residents living in rural parts of the state may soon have the ability to connect to the information highway. South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster ceremonially signed a bill into law Thursday afternoon at the headquarters of the Pee Dee Electric Cooperative on McIver Road between Florence and Darlington. The bill, part of the state’s CARES Act funding allocation, allows and gives incentives to smaller power companies and cooperatives to let internet providers provide their service alongside electric lines.

FLORENCE, S.C. — South Carolina and Texas now share more than a love of football and their state flags. Ground was broken by South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster, state Sen. Hugh K. Leatherman Sr., House Ways and Means Committee Chairman G. Murrell Smith Jr., Buc-EEs founder Arch “Beaver” Aplin and other dignitaries for the Buc-EEs being constructed off Exit 170 on Interstate 95.