COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO)–National Night out is set for Tuesday, August 7th. Cities and towns across the state are taking back the night for the event. A number of law enforcement agencies are holding programs. Richland County Sheriff’s Deputies will host a number of events at places like the Region 1 Substation on Lower Richland Blvd. and Windsor Lake Elementary school….
COLUMBIA,SC (WOLO)- Seeing dogs out in public places is pretty common,especially when it comes to service dogs. However a midlands non-profit says people claiming their dogs are service animals to get into places. “It makes it harder for people who have legitimate service dogs to be accepted in public when they really need that help to get back out there,”…
LEXINGTON, S.C.(WOLO) – Lexington County detectives have arrested a Lexington woman in connection with the death of her newborn child. Brennan Hailey Geller, 21, is charged with homicide by child abuse because she failed to provide medical care for the infant she delivered in her car Friday night, according to an arrest warrant. Geller placed the newborn in a trash…
SUMTER, SC (WOLO)-A Sumter man has died from injures sustained in a house fire last week. Sumter county, Chief deputy Coroner, Bryan M. Rogers tells ABC Columbia news that Lorenzo Gutierrez died Sunday at Joseph M Still Burn Center in Augusta. Gutierrez and three other family members were airlifted from their Bowmen Drive home on July 28 after the fire….
COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO)- Dozens of activist rallied at the Statehouse on Saturday to call for stricter gun laws. The ‘March on the NRA’ was led by students in the Midlands with some assistance from the group, Indivisible Midlands. Speakers at the event called on Federal and State Lawmakers to take action to reduce gun violence and minimize the influence on…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCIV) — South Carolina’s governor has signed an executive order removing a mayor who pleaded guilty to domestic violence. The executive order filed Friday removes John Kay Hansen as mayor of Ware Shoals, a town of about 2,100 people approximately 90 miles northwest of Columbia. Gov. Henry McMaster wrote in the executive order that the state Constitution allows him to remove…
ORANGEBURG, SC (WOLO)- Investigators are looking into a suspicious death that happened Friday afternoon. Just after 1 p.m. a caller reported seeing an individual on the ground in a driveway near the junction of Joe Jeffords Highway and Pineland Street, Sheriff Leroy Ravenell said. Orangeburg County Sheriff’s investigators arrived and find a male lying beside on overturned moped in the driveway,…
LEXINGTON, SC (WOLO)-The need for people to protect and serve is a problem for several agencies in the Midlands. Across Lexington County, for instance, they’re currently looking to fill more than 100 positions. “When people pick up the phone and call 911, we will always be there,” Deputy Candi Shealy said. “24 hours a day 7 days a week, if…
FAIRFIELD COUNTY, SC (WOLO)- It has been one year since the VC Summer nuclear plant shut down which cost thousands of people their jobs. Some of them are still feeling the impact. “I had to make a lot of sacrifices just to get by,” Laquanta Gaston, former light equipment operator for VC Summer said. Like the more than 5,000 other…
COLUMBIA,SC (WOLO)- It’s been talked about for more than a decade, but now people are starting to see some growth in the Bullstreet district, one restaurant at a time. Developers expect the project to turn the old state hospital into a vibrant community. Developers hope to turn 191 acres of land from the old State hospital into a vibrant new…
