Author: ABC Columbia Staff

Man armed with guns arrested for trespassing on school property

Deputies say the incident took place Friday afternoon at Dutch Fork High school

FILE Richland Co., SC (WOLO) — The Richland County Sheriff’s Department has arrested a man they was carrying a stolen weapon on school property Friday afternoon. According to deputies,  20 year old Tyshawn Isaiah Lightbourne from Irmo, along with an unidentified woman were approach by a Dutch Folk School Resource Officer (SRO) after a school administrator notified the officer the…

SC State University gears up for ‘Parade of Champions’

The event was postponed twice due to COVID concerns

Orangeburg, SC (WOLO) — South Carolina State University students, staff, and alumni will finally be able to celebrate the Bulldogs victory in both academics and athletics during the long awaited ‘Parade of Champions’. The event was put on hold twice over the course of one month, after school officials say several student athletes tested positive to COVID. The off, on…

ACLU wins settlement to remove some from Sex Offender Registry

Columbia, SC (WOLO) — In a settlement agreement with South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson along with State Law Enforcement Division Chief Mark Keel those wrongly convicted of sodomy in the state of South Carolina will now be taken off of the Sex Offender Registry in the Palmetto State. The announcement comes after arguments in Mary Geiger Lewis’s courtroom Friday,…