...boy was found unresponsive in his home early Sunday and died Monday afternoon in a Columbia hospital. Police Chief Patty Patterson says 20-year-old Rayshana Harvin of Sumter is charged with homicide by child abuse. Patterson says the boy died...

...Authorities say 23-year-old William McKenzie died early Friday morning, shortly after he was shot. Police Chief Patty Patterson says investigators are still trying to determine a motive in the case. Man is fatally shot at home; suspect sought...

Abandoned newborn is fed through tube SUMTER - An anonymous phone call led Sumter Police Chief Patty Patterson to First Baptist Missionary Church, where she found a newborn wrapped in a blanket on the steps. The infant found last week has...

...anonymous person called police dispatch and said someone had left a baby on the steps of First Baptist Church. Chief Patty Patterson and a corporal searched around the church before determining the baby was at another area church with a similar name...

...He has been charged with murder and three counts of assault and battery with intent to kill. Sumter Police Chief Patty Patterson said Mr. Galloway shot at De-Andre and three other teenagers who he thought had broken into his car. Mr. Galloway's...

...she was less than 24 hours old. Investigators have not found the baby's mother or father, Sumter Police Chief Patty Patterson said. Bluffton man accused of killing his landlord HILTON HEAD ISLAND -A Bluffton man shot his landlord to death...

...told police he had been robbed and shot in the past year and did not want to be robbed again. Sumter Police Chief Patty Patterson says officers are helping distribute 250 signs that say "Trick or Treaters Welcome Here" to residents ready to accept...

...family members said. Both were released from Tuomey Regional Medical Center early Saturday, Sumter Police Chief Patty Patterson said. Reports indicate T.J. had been shot 13 times. "Blood was everywhere," said his mother, who had been...

...AK-47, shooting at least 29 times through his front door, walls and windows after hearing the knock, Police Chief Patty Patterson said. He told police he had been robbed and shot in the past year. "He wasn't going to be robbed again, and...

...Investigators charged Tevin Goodman, 17, with murder, first-degree burglary and auto theft Friday. Police Chief Patty Patterson said Mr. Goodman is connected to the death of Mary Horger Hunter, whose body was found in her home Thursday. Four...