We’re live at 11 in a few!

It’s been a #TGIT night of primetime on ABC Columbia. Your news is coming up next. Here’s what we’re working on tonight:

You don’t have a household name like Haley, Staley, Spurrier, or Muschamp to be one of our ‘Midlands Most Fascinating’ People. You’ll meet the brilliant mind behind an app and computer software that boasts customers like Boeing and NASA. He lives in Forest Acres. And, anybody who’s preferred mode of relaxation is coding has to be included on our ‘Most Fascinating’ list. Grace Joyal takes to the skies to bring you a story you’ll see only on ABC Columbia News at 11.

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Remember Walter Scott? Remember the passionate plea to outfit police with body cameras? The call was answered swiftly by SC State House lawmakers with the passage of a bill requiring all police and sheriff’s departments to implement body cameras?

One problem as explained by one sheriff and echoed by others: “Everybody felt good last year when we passed it, but there wasn’t the teeth in it and there wasn’t the money behind it.”

ABC Columbia‘s Beth Rousseau dives into a story that shows how politicians who move fast when emotions are still running high can lead to what some call unfunded mandates or political grandstanding. See it at 11 on ABC Columbia News.

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It’s the Olympics of freebies and giveaways. Go for the gold with our Golden Tablet Giveaway. You’ve gotta watch at 11 to hear the phone number to call and register to win!

We’re live in a few!

-Ben