Alice Drive Middle School students recently learned how spare change can help beat cancer.

This Department of Health and Environmental Contral report is for Routine and Follow-up inspections performed the previous 10 days.

WASHINGTON - Here's how members of Congress voted on major issues in the week ending Feb. 3.

One of the four outstanding suspects named by the Sumter County Sheriff's Office Friday in the killing at a Lynchburg convenience store has been apprehended.

The HIV/AIDS epidemic has affected people of different races for many years, especially in the African-American community.

HILTON HEAD ISLAND - In the 28 years since Thomas E. Garrity opened G&G Metal Fabrication Inc., the then four-person operation has grown to hire nearly five times as many employees and gross millions of dollars, while helping to supply firefighters across the country with necessary equipment.

Authorities have arrested two suspects in connection with a shooting death that took place on Dec. 26 of last year at a convenience store in Lynchburg. Four other suspects remain at large.

Antonio Clark isn't related to Sumter IGA owners Jimmy and Tommy Clark, but he is part of the local grocery store's family.

Sumter County Animal Control officials removed 20 cats and three dogs from a home on Nandina Drive off U.S. 15 North on Friday after neighbors called in to complain of an overwhelming scent coming from the residence.

Austin Seitz wanted to be a firefighter, volunteer or not.

For the last six months, Lt. Col. John Palo was deployed in Qatar with the 4th Battlefield Coordination Detachment, Third Army/ARCENT.

The Studio in the Loft presents its third Walking Tour of the Great Ballets at 7 p.m. Saturday at Patriot Hall. Artistic director Penny Boyes has choreographed condensed versions of the renowned ballets Coppelia and Paquita.

Today is National "Go Red for Women" Day, when individuals show support for the American Heart Association by wearing red.

Students at St. Francis Xavier High School were learning a lesson outside of their normal classroom walls Wednesday.

Helping others is part of what Catholic Schools hope to instill in their students.

Editor's note: This is the fifth in a series of articles on Sumter graduates and their families.

Following the late 2010 squabble over funding for Patriot Park Sportsplex that left the facility temporarily off limits for out-of-town sports teams, the respective councils for the city of Sumter and Sumter County said they would make more of an effort to get together during public meetings.

CHARLESTON (AP) - Two South Carolina congressmen are joining their colleagues in returning unused money from running their congressional offices to the government.

The Sumter Community Vision in Progress will hold its regular monthly meeting from 10 to 11 a.m. today in the board room of the James E. Clyburn Transportation Center on South Harvin Street. Sumter County Sheriff’s Anthony Dennis and a representative from the Sumter Police Department will be guest speakers to update the community about area crime. For more information, contact Executive Director Patty Wilson at (803) 491-4910 or email pwilson@ftc-i.net.

A 29-year-old man accused of killing a 56-year-old man and a 22-year-old man accused of shooting a woman in the head during an April 2009 home invasion case will remain incarcerated in unrelated cases after they were found not guilty last week by a Sumter County jury.

It's been a long, fun winter, so far.

One local corporation has made the staff at a Sumter nonprofit very happy.

During nearly the entire month of March 2010, a jury heard government prosecutors argue Tuomey violated federal law and committed fraud with physician contracts.

"Kenya Inspiration," a photograph exhibit by Lakewood High School instructor Catherine Walker-Dawns, provides an honest catalog of her experiences in the African area during the past few years. The compositions seem unstaged, real events captured by the watchful eye of Walker-Dawns, rather than a staged commentary.