Area Breaking News

A person died after a crash near Pageland Friday (May 31). According to Master Trooper Mitchell Ridgeway of the South Carolina Highway Patrol, the crash happened on Airport Road near Eddie Horton Road at 6:27 p.m., approximately four miles south of Pageland. A person driving a 1988 Mercury sedan was traveling south on Airport Road.…

A deputy with the Chesterfield County Sheriff’s Office was arrested in Horry County by the S.C. Highway Patrol on Tuesday, May 28, after an accident in Marlboro County. Sheriff Cambo Streater said his office was informed that Deputy Patrick Roscoe, 24, had been arrested by the South Carolina Highway Patrol for driving under the I-influence,…

Officials with the Chesterfield County Sheriff’s Office said a woman and her eight-year-old are safe after being kidnapped on Tuesday, May 28. According to Sheriff Cambo Streater, his office was notified that a female and her eight-year-old son were taken by force from the residence where they were staying in the Jefferson area of the…

A person is dead following a single-vehicle collision. According to Lance Cpl Brittany Glover with the S.C. Highway Patrol, a single-vehicle collision occurred at 12:30 a.m. Sunday, May 19 on Bear Creek Road at Evans Mill Road. This is approximately six miles south of Chesterfield. Glover said a driver of a 2008 Pontiac was traveling…

South Carolina Law Enforcement has charged two women with abandoning a vulnerable adult in CHESCO housing in Chesterfield County, which led to the person’s death in September of last year. According to SLED, Janique Darrelle Stanton of Bennettsville and Amani My’Shawna McCray of Cheraw were charged on April 25 with abuse/neglect, resulting in the death…

A Patrick man died Thursday, April 25, after a collision with a tractor-trailer near McBee. According to Lance Cpl. Brittany Glover of the South Carolina Highway Patrol, the collision occurred at 6:29 p.m. on SC-151 at Spraught Lane (1.5 miles south of McBee). The driver of a 1996 Volvo tractor-trailer and the driver of a…

An Ohio man escaped injury after his truck was engulfed by fire Tuesday evening. Brian Rice had driven down from Ohio to purchase a truck in South Carolina. As Rice was traveling back on Highway 151 near the Family Dollar store in McBee, his back passenger tire caught fire. Rice and two other people tried…

A man faces six counts of attempted murder after a shooting at Pageland home on Monday night. Chesterfield County Sheriff’s Office officials said Adrein Deuntae Bracey, 38, was arrested and charged with six counts of attempted murder for shooting into an occupied dwelling. Officials said a female juvenile received minor injuries from shattered glass and…

McLeod Health officials have announced plans to construct a new $45 million hospital in Cheraw. The new facility will be built on the current McLeod Health Cheraw site and will replace the current building, which was built in 1980. As McLeod Health Cheraw, McLeod assumed operation of the Chesterfield General Hospital in 2015. Officials leased…

Clarification In the candidate filing in the March 27 issue of The Link, Allen Blackmon is identified as a Democrat. Blackmon is a Republican. He is running against incumbent S.C. Sen. Penry Gustafson for State Senate District 27. .