Howell is Lamar’s new mayor by 9-vote margin
When election commission staffers were shutting down for the night Nov. 2, it still wasn’t certain who had been elected mayor of Lamar – Inez Lee or James Howell?
Local man killed as vehicle strikes tree
A 51-year-old Darlington man was killed over the weekend when his vehicle ran off the road and hit a tree, officials said.
Officials investigate deadly house fire
One person was killed Friday morning in a house fire on Brentwood Drive near the Lydia community of Darlington County, officials said.
County getting ‘on the radar’ for economic development
Darlington County economic-development officials have spent this year networking, making connections and working to get the county “on the radar” for business projects.
That legendary everlasting plant called rabbit tobacco
She smoked it as a kid. Said she smoked grapevines, too, but it was Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium, one of the everlastings, she talked about most.