Author: Associated Press

Good Samaritan lucky to be alive after being dragged by school bus

Clarendon Co., SC (AP) —  Troopers with the Highway Patrol says a man was injured trying to help a school bus navigate a dirt road in Clarendon County. Trooper Judd Jones says yesterday afternoon a bystander was trying to help the bus get around a stalled pickup truck. Officials say the man’s clothes somehow got caught in the bus and…

3 finalists named for Sumter School District chief’s job

SUMTER, S.C. (AP) – Three finalists have been chosen to fill the superintendent’s seat for the Sumter School District. The Sumter School Board says the finalists are Cynthia Ambrose of Charleston County School District; Ronald Hargrave of Scotland County Schools in Laurinburg, North Carolina and Penelope Martin-Knox of Baltimore County Public Schools in Towson, Maryland. The Sumter Item reports the…

State agents investigate after 6 trash trucks burn

ORANGEBURG, S.C. (AP) – State agents are helping investigate after six trucks burned at a trash company. Jamison Fire Chief Kirk Davis said the Wednesday night fire didn’t appear to be intentionally set. But Davis told The Times and Democrat of Orangeburg that with hundreds of thousands of dollars of equipment damaged, he thought it was a good idea to…