The Sumter County Sheriff’s Office says they arrested a man who took scrap metal from a business and sold it to another business for personal profit.
The Richland County Sheriff’s Department says they are investigating a suspicious fire in Hopkins where an individual was found dead.
Richland School District One has been approved to continue the federally funded food program through June 30. The food program provides seven days’ worth of breakfasts and lunches to students at no cost to their parents.
The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control released the state’s latest coronavirus numbers as of Thursday.
According to the City of Columbia, more than 11,000 meals were donated this year through the Martin Luther King Jr. Honor the Dream virtual and drive-thru food drives.
On Friday, the Department of Employment and Workforce announced it has begun payments for the third and final Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation.
Johnson & Johnson is planning to have enough COVID-19 vaccines for 100 million Americans by April. A board member says that’s the plan if the clinical trial works out.
A flight attendants’ union is praising President Biden for his new mask mandate. The president signed an executive order that requires people to wear masks on airplanes, trains, ships and buses.
Parents of little ones in the Midlands, there are some important dates coming up. Richland School District One is registering students for its Pre-K program. Parents of three and four-year-olds in the district are asked to register for the next school year as soon as possible.
Thursday, Congressman Jim Clyburn announced that Benedict College President Doctor Roslyn Clark Artis has been appointed to serve on the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity.
