COLUMBIA (WOLO): Sunday, the Department of Health and Environmental Control announced an additional 425 cases of COVID-19. Another 19 deaths have also been reported. South Carolina has now reported 485,387 total cases and 8,438 total deaths. DHEC also reports a 3.4% positivity rate. Categories: Local News, State Tags: COVID-19, DHEC
COLUMBIA (WOLO): Tuesday, South Carolinians had the chance to find their inner philanthropists and give back to the more than 480 nonprofit organizations across the Midlands. Donations continue to roll in, as a record-breaking number of nonprofits participate in Midlands Gives Day. This year the fundraising event is entirely online. Elizabeth Houck, Strategic Initiatives Associate, with the Central Carolina Community…
Columbia, SC (WOLO) —- It was an emotional day for family and friends who gathered for a celebration of life in memory of 15 year old Sanaa Amenhotep. Three people have been arrested in connection to the teens kidnapping and death. While the investigation into what happened after Amenhotep left her home April 5th her Northeast home continues, those who…
SAN DIEGO (AP): Three people were killed and more than two dozen others were hospitalized after a boat capsized and broke apart just off the San Diego coast. Officials suspect it was a human smuggling operation. Lifeguards, the U.S. Coast Guard and other agencies responded around 10:30 a.m. Sunday following reports of an overturned vessel near the peninsula of Point…
COLUMBIA (WOLO): A memorial service for 15-year-old Sanaa Amenhotep will be held Monday evening. Amenhotep was kidnapped from her home on April 5th, and shot later that day, according to officials. Her body was found on April 28th in Lexington County. According to a Facebook post from Chris Leevy Johnson with Leevy’s Funeral Home, the celebration of life will be…
COLUMBIA (WOLO): The Department of Health and Environmental Control announced 456 more cases of COVID-19 in South Carolina Sunday. 11 more deaths have also been reported. South Carolina has reported 482,907 total cases of COVID-19 since last March, and 8,379 deaths. DHEC also announced a 3.8% positivity rate. Categories: Local News, State Tags: COVID-19, DHEC
COLUMBIA (WOLO): An 18-year-old from Cayce and two minors are accused of kidnapping and shooting a Columbia girl to death last month in a remote part of Lexington County. According to the Lexington County Sheriff’s Department, Treveon Nelson and the two minors, a male and a female, whose names will not be released due to their age, are charged with…
COLUMBIA (WOLO): Saturday, the state Department of Health and Environmental Control announced another 660 cases of COVID-19. 8 more South Carolinians have died from the virus. South Carolina has now reported a total of 482,310 cases and 8,367 deaths, according to DHEC. DHEC also reports a 4.4% positivity rate. Categories: Local News, State Tags: COVID-19, SC DHEC
COLUMBIA (WOLO): Wednesday was a somber day outside the South Carolina Department of Transportation headquarters, as community and family members gathered to remember the dozens of employees fallen in the line of the duty. 89 names are now listed on the wall outside SCDOT, after 3 more were added Wednesday morning, including 2 employees killed in 2019 with Horry Maintenance, and…
COLUMBIA (WOLO): South Carolina lawmakers began debating a roughly $10 billion spending plan for the 2021-22 fiscal year on the senate floor Tuesday. Last week, the Senate Finance Committee passed a budget plan, which includes an unexpected additional $1.7 billion dollars of federal funding. Many lawmakers attribute South Carolina’s good financial standing to how the state responded to the COVID-19…
