Author: ABC Columbia Staff

PRISMA Children’s Health gets largest donation to date

Columbia, SC (WOLO) —The largest gift ever to PRISMA Health’s Children’s Hospital was presented Thursday May 9th, 2019. The organization Curing Kids Cancer handed over a check for 170 thousand dollars for the Children’s Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders. The money donated Thursday will support Curing Kids Cancer’s 1.2 million dollar endowment at PRISMA Health Midlands Foundation. Categories: Health,…

Parents of Tucker Hipps win battle to make transparency act permanent

Clemson, SC (WOLO) –Today Governor Henry McMaster signed into a law a bill designed to require colleges to keep disclosing any violations committed by their Fraternities and Sororities. The Tucker Hipps Transparency Act is named after Hipps, a student, who died in 2014 after falling off of a bridge during a Fraternity run at Clemson University. In 2016 a temporary…

Deputies arrest man accused of insurance fraud, filing false burglary report

(Photo: Alvin S. Glen Detention Center) Columbia, SC (WOLO) —The Richland County Sheriff’s Department have arrested 56 year old Larry Jerome Bruce accused of filing a false police report and making a false insurance claim. According to Deputies, on April 18, 2019, Bruce called 911 and told officials he was robbed of 36 thousand dollars worth of property. Authorities say…