The City of Columbia is doing its part to help with the severe blood shortage across the state. The city and Mayor Daniel Rickenmann are hosting the 12th Annual Columbia Lifesavers Blood Drive.
Deputies with the Richland County Sheriff's Department are asking for the public's help finding a missing teen who has medical issues that require medication.
Richland County Coroner Naida Rutherford released the name of a driver who died after a collision at the intersection of Two Notch Road and North Brickyard Road.
The Columbia Police Department says a 30-year-old man has been charged with accessory after the fact in connection with the shooting death of a man found earlier this month.
Friday, the University of South Carolina named Dr. Michael Amiridis president-elect. Dr. Amiridis had served as chancellor of the University of Illinois-Chicago since 2015, and previously served as provost at UofSC.
“We are going to keep seeing an increase. 80 percent of us are going to be infected in a few weeks I think. It’s so infectious," said Dr. Divya Ahuja, Prisma infectious disease specialist.