Mayor Steve Benjamin ABC COLUMBIA Columbia, S.C. (WOLO)– Columbia Mayor Steve Benjamin wrote an open letter to President Donald Trump ahead of his visit to Columbia and Benedict College Friday. It reads; Mr. President, welcome to Columbia, South Carolina. In these incredibly difficult times in which we live, we may disagree fundamentally on many issues of public importance but I…
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Sumter police say three people were injured in a shooting early Saturday morning.
Categories: Todays Forecast
Columbia, S.C. (WOLO)–Attorney General Alan Wilson says South Carolina is part of a multi-state settlement requiring Johnson & Johnson to pay nearly $116.9 million for the deceptive marketing of trans-vaginal surgical mesh devices. Wilson says South Carolina will receive $4,097,718.60 under the settlement. Transvaginal surgical mesh is a synthetic material that is surgically implanted through the vagina to support the…
Columbia police say they have figured out who was duping tires behind a building on Sunset Dr.
Courtesy:SCDNR Columbia, S.C. (WOLO)– The state’s Drought Response Committee says the drought statuses of most of the state’s counties will remain unchanged this fall. Officials say Aiken, Abbeville, Allendale, Anderson, Bamberg, Barnwell, Calhoun, Chester, Cherokee, Clarendon, Colleton, Edgefield, Fairfield, Greenville, Greenwood, Hampton, Jasper, Kershaw, Lancaster, Laurens, Lee, Lexington, McCormick, Newberry, Orangeburg, Richland, Saluda, Spartanburg, Sumter, Union and York counties all…
Courtesy: Ryal Curtis Columbia, S.C. (WOLO)– A scary scene this evening at the South Carolina State Fair. Several fair-goers reported hearing what sounded like gunshots prompting peoople to run for the exits. Richland County deputies say there was not a shooting. No word on where the sounds came from. State Fair General Manager Nancy Smith released this statement following the…
Stephen Stinnette/ Source: SCSO Sumter, S.C. (AP)–A man who killed an accomplice in a South Carolina robbery and buried his body twice as he tried to keep anyone from finding it has been sentenced to 35 years in prison. Stephen Stinnette’s sentence also includes time for orchestrating a July fire and riot at the Sumter County jail that he used…
According to SLED investigators, Gershon Carmel was found safe.
