Fire department recognized for 100th anniversary

 Renovated Lawton Park Pavilion unveiled in Hartsville

 Police arrest Columbia man in Internet predator sting

 Carolina Pines to undergo management change

 Police seek Applebee's robbery suspect

 Second man pleads guilty in Society Hill bank robbery

 Media General to acquire The Messenger

 Heritage Community Bank McBee branch robbed

 Hodge won’t seek fourth term

 Ministers visit area schools

 Campbell won’t run again

 Messenger staffers win eight state press awards for 2007

 Man charged with reckless homicide after July 2007 wreck

 More than 86,000 votes tallied; $21,000 raised for charity

 Voting for Baby Faces calendar ends today

 Town of Society Hill elections to be held on March 18

 ‘We certainly lost her way too soon’

 Effort focuses on marketing Hartsville

 Two Hartsville men arrested on armed robbery charges

 Woman dies in elder abuse case

 Dawson sets plans to retire from Coker

 $200,000 grant off limits for building renovation

 City discusses fee schedule for Lawton Park Pavilion

 Man shot by Hartsville police officer

 Woodle enters sheriff’s race

 Hartsville woman chairs S.C. African American Heritage Commission

 Fugitives captured

 Storm water project brings new fees

 Jim Money to head county tourism office

 Hartsville annexes country club

 Carter named Johnson C. Smith University President

 Prostitution arrests at Shady Pines

 Two injured in shooting; one in custody

 Darlington meets Barack Obama

 The 'Dream' lives on

 Early morning party bust leads to 23 arrests

 Olympics means goodbye to WIS-TV

 Investigation results released; sheriff's office employee resigns

 Coker begins centennial observance

 Hartsville teenager missing, authorities need help in finding him

 Hartsville City Council passes first reading of 2020 plan

 HHS approved for IB world diploma

 Murder suspect turns himself in

 Police search Hartsville for suspect mistakenly released

 2007: The year in review

 Man dies in fire

 Children’s Center to open Hartsville satellite

 Development partnership approved

 New hotel may be coming to Hartsville

 Lawton Park transforming back into something special

 Society Hill mayor, three council members resign

 Sonoco targets up to $6 billion sales by end of 2012

 Downtown bank robbed

 Proposed partnership gaining attention

 Mayo makes U.S. News & World Report’s nations best high schools ranking

 Three sought in home invasion

 Woman shot in home invasion

 Shootings mar Thanksgiving holidays

 Wilmeth indicted for securities fraud

 Police investigate shooting

 Plan aimed at boosting economic development

 District still below average on report cards

 New athletic facility to be named for beloved ‘Coach’

 Board extends Knight’s contract

 Police seek suspect in armed robbery

 Hinson guilty in federal court

 Thomas, Bess named to S.C. State Centennial Football Team

 Hartsville man held on $250,000 in assault

 Voters fill council seats in Darlington, Lamar, Society Hill

 DHS Navy recruiter faces charges involving student

 District fails to meet federal standards

 Morris College student from Darlington dies

 A parent's nightmare

 DeLoach says desire, creativity, leadership needed to improve Hartsville

 New center makes Coker a leader in technology

 Man faces first-degree rape charge

 One charged with murder of Hartsville man

 HDDA teams with National Mainstreet Organization

 Local farmers eligible for drought assistance

 Panel, bank discuss sale of downtown parking area

 Council votes to renew Griffitts' contract as county administrator

 Arrest made in home invasion

 Police investigate shooting death

 Edwards campaigns in Darlington

 Police seek three in early morning home invasion

 Home Security Apartments to get facelift; will become Forest Ridge Apartments

 Sonoco projects $50 million in sales from latest acquisition

 Will pumpkin patch lose its look?

 Hartsville man facing murder charge

 Investigator says county’s gang problem getting worse

 SiMT seen as key to region’s economic growth

 Intruder shot dead in home invasion

 Robbery and burglary arrests made

 Two dead in weekend shootings

 Break-in leads to manhunt

 Man charged in shooting of another

 Council hears more concerns about poor drainage

 Last two sentenced in Griggs murder

 Defendants deny former chief’s allegations

 Two sentenced in 2004 murder of Brydtown business owner

 Bond set for suspect shot in Darlington

 City to seek grant for Oakdale neighborhood improvements

 Neighborhood convenience store robbed

 Police officer shoots suspect

 Slingshot bandits are at it again

 T.B. “Coach” Thomas Jr. will not run for re-election on Hartsville City Council

 G’day mate!

 Former Scott’s Branch High principal named interim director of Darlington County Intervention School

 Man shot in home invasion

 Hartsville man charged with trafficking in counterfeit merchandise

 Three district schools see SAT gains

 Man faces arson charge

 Three now charged in shooting

 Stormwater measure gets final OK

 Shooting leaves one dead

 Former chief can receive unemployment benefits

 Crash kills two

 Phase one of stadium renovation complete

 Former fire chief sues county, Griffitts, others

 Man charged with carjacking

 Store robbed at gunpoint

 Fire damages Yogi Bear restaurant

 Two face armed robbery charges

 Council postpones action on stormwater ordinance

 Solicitor: Officers used necessary force in fatal shooting

 Two charged in series of catalytic converter thefts

 Suspect in September restaurant robbery, shooting in jail

 Former fire chief plans lawsuit

 Two charged in bank robbery

 Look for ‘Insight 2007’ in today’s Messenger

 Pregnant woman dies in crash

 Sonoco’s second-quarter earnings down

 Suspect jailed in home invasion, shooting

 Rash of break-ins under investigation

 Vista becoming a reality?

 Former chief has his day

 Five arrested on weapons, drug charges

 Residents object to removal of tennis courts at Lawton Park

 Wilmeth asks court for rehearing

 Still no arrests in June 27 fatal shooting

 Man charged with murder after shooting victim dies

 July 4 Fireworks Festival draws largest crowd ever

 Life without parole

 Future of Hartsville Recreation Department concerns many citizens

 Man slain in early morning shooting

 Lowe’s opening Monday to customers

 Shooting suspect in custody

 Crash injuries fatal for Lamar woman

 House OKs budget, $14.9 million for GSSM

 Local firefighters to attend services for Charleston nine

 Supporters want fire chief reinstated

 Hartsville man killed in collision with train

 Suspect sought in shooting of two

 New $8.3 million city budget won’t raise taxes

 Supreme Court disbars Wilmeth

 Jim Daniels remembered as visionary leader of Coker College

 Watkins out as county fire chief

 Burial ban OK’d

 Lamar man dies in accident

 Darlington native hears the words 'Come on down'

 Ordinance will ban burials on residential property

 Sonoco completes $210 million Matrix buy

 Two men sought in shooting

 Budget raises property taxes — but not on homeowners

 Investigators say suspects may be headed to Mexico

 Trip on historic bomber offers glimpse of past

 Fifth Darlington County man sought in armored truck robbery

 Four people charged with kidnapping, burglary

 Woman shot by deputy dies

 Local men charged in $9.8 million armored car robbery

 SLED probes woman's shooting by deputy

 Hartsville IB program picks up support

 Golden Foxes

 It's race time in Darlington

 Council agrees to sell fire trucks

 Bicyclist dies when hit by vehicles

 Measure will ban backyard burials

 Society Hill councilwoman injured in crash

 Second man charged with soliciting minor for sex

 Police seek help with missing Darlington teen

 Hinson indicted on federal gun charge

 Man charged with soliciting minor for sex over internet

 Roche announces $60 million expansion at Florence facility

 Not guilty on all counts

 Stratton named Darlington County Teacher of the Year

 Jury finds Hinson not guilty

 Hinson trial enters fourth day

 Sonoco set performance record in 2006

 Hinson trial gets under way

 Virginia Tech shooting hits close to home for students

 $70,000 allocated in sleep tax funds

 Coker students develop plan for Pride Park

 Backyard mausoleum sparks debate

 Carolina Pines begins $7.7 million ER expansion

 Track to spend $10 million on improvements

 Murder suspect caught in Connecticut

 Two men sentenced to 32 years in crime spree

 Harwood: Better communities require focus on public good

 City, Coker present VISTA plan to DHEC

 Store robbed at gunpoint

 Man charged with ill treatment after dogs shot

 Welcome to RenoFest

 Panel to address property concerns

 $5 million for classroom technology

 Man shot in robbery

 $5 million bond gets final approval

 United Way at 85 percent of 2007 goal

 Managing things right

 Seventh suspect arrested in Farmington Apartments shooting

 Magistrate agrees to 60-day suspension

 Neighborhood residents fed up with situation at apartments

 Forum aimed at preventing gang activity

 Two arrests made in apartment shooting

 Biden brings presidential campaign to Hartsville

 Citi Trends announces expansion

 State chamber CEO says competing globally vital to S.C.’s future

 District’s top teacher one of five finalists for S.C. Teacher of the Year

 Hartsville man among those suing over tainted peanut butter

 House panel OKs $14.9 million for GSSM

 Work begins on $2 million stadium renovation

 Woman drives intruder from home with pistol

 City hospitality tax revenues near $1.2 million since 2004

 $5 million bond will pay for park, rec facilities

 Criminal justice study panel making progress, Malloy says

 Juvenile arrested for Hartsville shooting

 Students open doors with research

 Butler Heritage renovation drive reaches $162,000

 Sonoco sees rise in fourth-quarter earnings

 Darlington soldiers deployed

 Raceway named tops in S.C. tourism

 County still seeking easements for project

 Odom remembered for generosity

 Lawmaker says blacks must remain aware of their past to direct their future

 City hires planning director

 Highway Patrol stepping up enforcement, education effort on traffic safety

 Three new members join chamber board

 Deputies investigating third slaying of 2007

 Woman faces armed robbery charge

 Morningside to open new special unit

 Bush gets mixed reviews

 Two more face murder charges

 Man gets seven years in step-grandson’s traffic death

 Lamar man faces murder charge

 Lottery ticket nets man $200,000

 Avant, Norton, Goudelock honored by chamber

 Authorities seek help in locating missing person

 Rebuilding process continues on sinkhole

 Investigators probe shooting death in Lamar

 Local Fraternal Order of Police organization teams up to clean up gang-related activities

 City plans to enforce new vehicle ordinance

 Hartsville City Council to lease Ruby Road Baseball Fields to Northern League

 Woman sought in armed robbery

 Crews working to repair sinkhole

 Ten more district teachers obtain National Board Certification

 $650,000 gift aimed at knowledge start-ups

 Baldwin to chair Darlington County Council in 2007

 Byerly Foundation awards $290,000 in grants

 Patrol working for safer roads in Darlington County in 2007

 2006: The year in review - Part 2

 Authorities investigate three home invasions

 2006: The year in review

 Stolen golf-cart dampens holiday spirit for one family

 County’s November unemployment rate at 7.3 percent

 Hartsville Airport to receive grant for weather system upgrade

 Hartsville man remains in jail in connection with crash that killed two area men

 City gets $200,000 to help with drainage issues

 Stomach virus hits area schools

 Woman robbed at gunpoint at ATM

 The season of giving

 Hartsville City Council meets for last time in 2006

 Hartsville shooting suspect arrested

 Rogers Barbershop celebrates 50th year anniversary

 School board honors longtime members Dawson, Baldwin

 Man shot in early morning robbery

 Homeless man killed in fire identified

 Spratt to chair House Budget Committee

 Sonoco leaders foresee higher earnings

 Police investigate two robberies, shooting

 High-speed chase ends in downtown

 Students learn about dangers of DUI

 Bank robber sentenced to prison

 Fugitive arrested in Darlington County

 Public safety officials try to get word out about driving safe

 Robbery suspects nabbed

 Darlington Family YMCA looks to expand facilities

 Lawmakers hear concerns on education

 Three Hartsville stores robbed on Thursday

 More soil tests in Vista could mean additional costs, delays

 Darlington County Extrication Team makes strong showing at national competition

 Hartsville man charged with roommate's murder

 Former magistrate faces sexual assault charge

 Lawmakers hope for better relationship with governor

 S.C. State student from Hartsville charged with murder in roommate’s death

 DeLoach to lead state chamber for next year

 County’s Highway fatality rate on the rise

 School district boosts high school exit exam scores

 Veteran school board member loses; Neilson, Williams win

 Hartsville soldier receives Purple Heart

 Police investigate rash of downtown storefront window shootings

 Spratt, Norman differ on solutions

 Voters head to polls Tuesday

 Five from Hartsville now face charges in slaying

 Neilson, Lee face off in District 56 House race

 In district 62, education, jobs primary focus

 State seeks life for Hinson

 Three charged with drug trafficking and distribution

 Celebrating 10 years

 'Mr. Red Fox'

 Hartsville brothers arrested in Rock Hill slaying

 Darlington County Deputy charged with DUI

 Sonoco sees 30 percent gain in 3Q earnings

 Director outlines development plan

 Police still seeking Bi-Lo robbery suspects

 Robbery at gunpoint in Bi-Lo parking lot

 Wilmeth released from jail

 District employees honored for ‘Making a Difference’

 Orangeburg officials probing Hartsville student's slaying

 District falls short on No Child Left Behind standards

 October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month

 Lowe’s makes it official

 Hartsville native killed in Orangeburg

 Lamar police chief charged

 Robertson found not guilty

 Lowe’s buys land for store

 $2.2 million medical clinic dedicated in McBee

 City's new planning director resigns

 Authorities investigate three shootings

 Testimony begins in murder trial for investigator

 Third suspect in Jin Jin robbery, shooting still at large

 Wellman to consolidate Johnsonville operations in Darlington

 RenoFest wins top award, begins sponsorship campaign, announces headliner

 $72,000 worth of marijuana seized

 Hartsville woman recovering from assault and robbery

 Magnet programs approved for schools

 Second Jin Jin suspect turns self in to police

 New DVD aimed at marketing Hartsville

 New planning and development director has arrived

 Employee shot during restaurant robbery

 Society Hill celebrates $250,000 library grant

 City gives Lowe’s final OK on rezoning

 Hartsville’s newest department store, Peebles, opens doors

 Darlington woman stranded in Cayman Islands returns

 Brian Turner named police chief in Mauldin

 Hartsville woman dies in crash

 Reserve deputy charged with bribery, misconduct

 Lowe’s closer to becoming a reality

 Hartsville woman charged with neglect

 South Carolina Governor’s School for Science and Math holds convocation

 Wilmeth denied

 Medical clinic, school district share $125,000 for health needs

 Wilmeth back in jail

 Commission gives OK to Lowe’s zoning plan

 Free clinic Hartsville office opens

 Hartsville Country Club facing financial challenges

 Officials continue to work on school traffic situation

 County officials monitor Ernesto

 Coker opens year with record enrollment

 One arrested in copper theft investigation

 Influx of students snarls traffic at new middle schools

 Wilmeth jailed a second time

 Investigators seek cause of fatal plane crash

 New schools open

 Authorities warn against flim-flam

 Free clinic preparing for Hartsville opening

 Is Lowe’s a possibility for Hartsville?

 Revised school calendar approved

 Comprehensive plan meeting attracts crowd

 Belinda Copeland to lead S.C. Association of Counties

 New schools cleared to open

 Stray animals continue to be a problem in Hartsville

 Spratt lauds CareSouth program

 Attempted filibuster stops meeting

 Hartsville downtown vandalism is becoming a problem

 Officials see program as resource for small business

 Planning Commission rejects downtown skate park

 National Night Out brings neighborhood together

 City names new planning director

 One pleads, one indicted in bank robberies

 ‘Carolina Idol’ Brandy Morrell headed to Birmingham

 Brandi Wheeler wins top S.C. Main Street award

 School start date delayed to Aug. 23

 Former businessman sentenced for Sept. 11 fraud

 Ten selected for ‘Carolina Idol’

 Hartsville man charged with
kidnapping, rape

 Suspect sought in Sunday night robbery

 County's Extrication Team wins state championship

 Car chase suspect still in custody

 Minister arrested for sex crime

 ‘Carolina Idol’ auditions Wednesday

 $2.5 million Sonoco gift to Clemson

 Car chase ends in arrest

 Traffic flow to new school should run smoothly

 Complaints about apartment complex worry city officials

 ‘Carolina Idol’ coming to Hartsville

 Butler Heritage Week moves foundation closer to goal

 ‘Raising the roof for the next generation’

 New Orleans conference could benefit downtown

 Authorities probing two armed robberies

 Boys and Girls Club program produces ‘All Stars’

 $7.7 million budget raises taxes, fees

 Fireworks to light up the sky Tuesday

 Butler Heritage Week starts Saturday

 YMCA Vision Camp opens new world for children

 Robert Williams wins District 62

 $73 million school budget OK’d

 Peebles to replace B.C. Moore in Hartsville, Darlington

 House District 62 runoff is Tuesday

 Williams’s attorneys seek appeal

 Darlington loses two longtime civic leaders

 Budget wins final approval

 Investigator faces murder charge

 McBee police chief, judge indicted

 Hartsville City Council OKs accommodations tax requests

 Spratt secures another $2 million for local interchange; $600,000 more for I-73

 ‘Unknown to us, known to God’

 Runoff in District 62; Neilson wins

 Williams gets life

 Pit bulls attack teen

 Guilty

 Society Hill bank robbed, suspect caught

 Voters go to polls Tuesday

 Testimony continues in Williams murder trial

 Help for the Alphabet Hill area

 Hartsville man faces assault, battery charges

 Jury narrowed down for Williams capital murder trial

 State budget preserves funding for local projects

 Changes coming to downtown Darlington

 Williams trial begins

 Driver in fatal wreck free on bond

 Luau held for Mental Health Awareness Month

 Suspects sought in shooting

 Deputies investigate third robbery in week

 Four district students finish 2 years with perfect attendance

 Attorney General to try Hinson case

 Investigators seek leads in weekend robberies

 Darlington County, Sonoco recognized for healthy lifestyles

 City seeking up to $500,000 for housing rehabs

 County moves to allow tattoo parlors

 Vehicle chase leads to woman’s capture

 Byerly Foundation awards $1.1 million

 Final vote on budget postponed

 New leadership coming to Darlington chamber

 Hartsville physician wins $540,000 verdict against Progress Energy

 City residents may face tax hike

 Public hearings on county budget Monday

 $450,000 for Hartsville projects from state

 Darlington teen dies in accident

 Carnegie building on track for federal funding

 Project seen as boost to downtown

 Two Darlington men jailed on murder charges

 Council zeros in on proposed $30 road fee

 Wilmeth hearing focuses on documents

 Two charged in robbery at Family Dollar Store

 Christmas in April brings hope

 Christmas in April Saturday

 Employee robbed in Shoney’s parking lot

 State Rep. Denny Neilson helps celebrate Founder’s Day at GSSM

 Schools gearing up for ‘The Move’

 Will gas prices ever come down?

 Sonovista’s Dowling named district Teacher of the Year

 DeLoach: ’05 one of Sonoco’s best years ever

 Dilapidated housing an issue in the city of Hartsville

 Two plead guilty in Richard Griggs murder

 $32.7 million county budget moves forward

 Elvington hopes conference offers new ideas for growth

 Habitat for Humanity seeks land for houses

 Hartsville City Council rezones land

 New Hartsville center offers hope for sexual assault victims

 State mandate means tax hike

 Raymond Davis: The true meaning of a sports fan

 Sorensen’s Bow Tie Tour comes to town

 Students win $100,000 scholarships

 Railroad property development takes next step forward

 Missing Alabama woman not ‘Jane Doe’

 County to study tattoo parlors

 Messenger offices closed Friday for move back home

 Vehicle crashes claim two lives Saturday

 Apartment fire leaves 8 families homeless

 Darlington county’s unemployment rate remains Pee Dee’s lowest

 Eleven candidates vying for two House seats

 Supreme Court closes Wilmeth Law Firm

 Kelleytown Stadium slated for $1.8 million upgrade

 Principal for a Day program held in Darlington County

 Hinson denied bond

 Man gets 25 years for rape of 13-year-old

 Marty Raybon & Full Circle appearing at RenoFest 2006

 Hinson facing life if convicted

 State seeks death in Griggs murder

 Free Medical Clinic coming to Hartsville — finally

 Convicted rapist charged in underground assaults captured

 Three charged with prostitution in Darlington

 City adopts local accommodations tax

 Cops seek rape suspect

 Economy Drug closing its doors

 Vandalism, trespassing threaten airport safety

 Burry Park back in discussions

 Officials investigate alleged threats by student

 New book by Malcolm Doubles details Sonoco’s history

 Fire at Carolina Lunch does minimal damage

 Governor’s School students go to Galapagos Islands

 Rep. Jay Lucas to chair key budget writing subcommittee

 $1 million dollars richer

 Positive parenting stressed at workshop

 Shooting suspect caught in Lamar after standoff

 STOP Team operation nets drug arrests

 Shrinkdown celebration Thursday

 Coggeshall was central to growth of Sonoco, Hartsville

 11-year old awaits kidney transplant

 County churches band together for ‘All God’s Children’

 Attorney jailed for contempt of court

 Identification of body found in 2000 may be near

 Hartsville woman wins $1 million

 Local accommodations tax gets first OK

 Man faces additional charge in shooting

 A saga of a broken-winged hawk

 Study shows airports crucial to economy

 JBE Inc. continues to see growth

 ‘Teen Forum’ show comes to Governor’s School on Feb. 26.

 Storm water management

 McLeod - Darlington continues growth

 Hartsville man to challenge Neilson in House District 56

 Butler restoration moves forward

 County to seek $1.3 million for new airport parking apron

 Hartsville man charged in infant’s death

 Participants discuss Hartsville’s future

 Sonoco sees rise in fourth-quarter earnings

 Airport official says facility needs new terminal

 City weighing options on rec building

 City of Hartsville continues its growth

 Johnson to seek House 62 seat

 Meth lab busted

 Holt urges caution on property tax plans

 Williams enters House race to replace Hines

 Hines won’t run again

 Conversations about our community

 Byerly Park staff brings experience to a new level

 Top citizens honored

 County saw growth in industry, jobs in 2005

 Watch your speed

 Martin Luther King Jr.

 $20 million in grant money will boost downtown Florence

 Tournaments will have major economic impact in 2006

 Railyard development closer to reality