Author: ABC Columbia Staff

Everything voters need to know for Statewide Primaries

SC Statewide Primaries are Tuesday June 9, 8am-8pm

Columbia, SC (WOLO) — Election Day is rapidly approaching and the South Carolina Election Commission wants to make sure voters don’t have to leave anything up to chance when it comes to knowing your options. Below is a complete list provided by SCElections Commission to answer possible questions you may have before you get to the polls Tuesday June 9….

Prisma COVID-19 testing sites available Friday

Prisma announces new testing sites in Orangeburg

Orangeburg, SC(WOLO) — In a continued effort to expand testing accessibility throughout the state, Prisma Health is teaming up with the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) and state agencies to host another COVID-19 testing event in Orangeburg Friday June 5. Testing will be held from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. at William J. Clark Middle School, 919…

Some Instagram users ‘black out’ Tuesday

Did you see a host of black boxes on social media Tuesday? Here's why.

Columbia, SC (WOLO) — If you were scrolling through the social media site Instagram Tuesday and encountered a sea of blacked out squares, there was a reason you weren’t seeing things pictures. Some users joined a growing number of people in the entertainment industry that said they could no longer sit by an talk about their artists when there was…

Protesters demonstrate well into Tuesday night

Day four of protests downtown Columbia continue

Columbia,SC (WOLO)— “No Justice, No peace!” As the sun set on the fourth day of protesting, frustration over incidents of police brutality against people of color across the country was not setting.  One of the protesters describing what he saw as he joined crowds to protests, and march in hope of  change. His response, “Pain,  all of these people are…

LCSD: Woman arrested for stabbing father multiple times with large kitchen knife

LEXINGTON, SC (WOLO) – A woman accused of stabbing her father multiple times with a large kitchen knife was arrested at her home in Lexington County. According to the Lexington County Sheriff’s Department, Geri Lin Oswald stabbed him multiple times in the upper body Monday night at their home in the 200 block of Bailey Island Circle. Mr. Oswald was…