Nurses often play a supporting role to the doctors saving lives in hospitals every day, but during the second week in May, nurses are the ones getting all the glory.

DARLINGTON — Maryland resident Kathryn Cooley said her family always laughed when she entered any kind of sweepstakes.

Three Florence men were arrested Friday after deputies say they took more than $200,000 in scrap metal and old cars from someone’s property, Florence County Sheriff’s Lt. Brett Camp said.

A Florence man was arrested Thursday in connection with a Dec. 24 robbery at a Hoffmeyer Road convenience store, Florence County Sheriff’s Lt. Brett Camp said.

DARLINGTON — With all of Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s popularity, it came as no surprise fans expected big things when he signed to race for Hendrick Motorsports last year.

DARLINGTON — Tony Stewart couldn’t win on Darlington’s old surface. But he’s 1-for-1 on the track’s new one. Stewart led 90 laps and pulled away on the green-white-checkered flag restart to win the Diamond Hill Plywood 200 on Friday night in front of an estimated crowd of 31,000.

DARLINGTON — For the fourth straight year, Darlington’s Sprint Cup race is a sellout. Track officials announced on Friday that tonight’s Dodge Challenger 500 is sold out. The race has been sold out every year since NASCAR moved the race date to Mother’s Day weekend. “This (racing Mother’s Day weekend) has really turned out to be a home run for us,” Darlington Raceway president Chris Browning said. “The fans have come out and have really supported this.”

Thumbs up to the students, faculty and staff of McLaurin Elementary School in Florence for walking 26,000 miles in 180 days — enough to visit every state in the nation.