Author: ABC Columbia Staff

Donate Life and DMV team up for you to give the gift of life

Columbia, SC (WOLO) —April is donate life month in South Carolina. Tuesday morning the organization and the South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles came together  to mark Donate Life’s tenth anniversary and the more than two million people who have signed up to save lives through eye, organ, and tissue donation. Officials with the DMV say it is a program…

Columbia Mayor to propose more requirements for ride-sharing in city limits

Columbia, SC (WOLO) — Columbia Mayor Steve Benjamin says he fully supports the recommendations the parents of slain UofSC student Samantha Josephson are now pushing for. Columbia police say Samantha was kidnapped and killed after she got into a car in Five Points she mistook for a Uber. Samantha’s parents, Seymour and Marci Josephson say they are happy with legislation…

Charlotte Police release body cam footage of deadly shooting, protests planned

CHARLOTTE, NC (WOLO, WCCB) – The CMPD has released the body-cam footage from the deadly officer involved shooting at a Burger King in northwest Charlotte last month. Police say Danquirs Franklin, 27, was shot and killed on March 25th. In the video you can hear officers repeatedly tell Franklin to drop his gun. Several protests were planned in Charlotte Monday…