(photo: Open Streets Columbia) Columbia, SC (WOLO) — This weekend you can park your car and play in the middle of the street, or do any other activity your heart desires. It’s all part of Open Streets Columbia on Main Street, the third year the City of Columbia’s Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee in conjunction with Soda City, will shut…
Source: NWS Columbia, S.C. (WOLO)–The National Weather Service says the Midlands is under a tornado watch until 6pm Friday. The NWS tornado watch is issued when weather conditions are favorable for the development of a tornado. Stay with ABC Columbia News for further updates. Categories: Local News, News, State
RaNiya Wright (Photo provided by family) Walterboro, S.C. (WOLO)– The Colleton Co. Solicitor’s office says Raniya Wright, 10, died of natural causes. Wright died following a fight on March 27th at Forest Hills Elementary School. The solicitor’s office says its medical examiner found no signs of trauma, and discovered that Wright had a pre-existing medical condition, AVM and had been…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO) — South Carolina is under significant threat for severe thunderstorms during the daytime hours Friday. The National Weather Service in Columbia has issued a Tornado Watch for the entire ABC Columbia viewing area until 6 p.m. A well-developed upper-level trough, which is allowing for a strong combination of unstable warm air from the south to collide with…
Columbia, S.C. (WOLO)– The National Weather Service and the ABC Columbia Weather team are predicting severe weather in the Midlands Friday afternoon. The NWS is predicting wind damage from 60-70 mph wind gusts is the highest threat, but isolated tornadoes and hail is also possible, mainly in the central and eastern Midlands. Officials also expect some scattered damage to trees…
South Carolina is under significant threat for severe thunderstorms during the daytime hours Friday. The National Weather Service in Columbia has issued a Tornado Watch for the entire ABC Columbia viewing area until 6 p.m. A well-developed upper-level trough, which is allowing for a strong combination of unstable warm air from the south to collide with a powerful draft of…
The Lexington Police Department is asking the community for assistance in obtaining the whereabouts of two brothers involved in multiple shoplifting incidents.
The Richland County Sheriff’s Department is investigating a shots fired call on Grays Inn Road. Deputies responded to Grays Inn Road around 4:15 p.m., where they found a man injured with a cut to the face. The man was rushed to the hospital.
The Fairfield County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a shooting incident on Wednesday at the Birch Street area in Winnsboro.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO) — Uber is putting the University of South Carolina at the forefront of its new campus safety initiative. After President Harris Pastides’s “What’s My Name?” movement picked up steam nationwide, Uber rolled out some changes through a partnership with colleges across the country to remind students of essential safety tips. “We also added a new ‘Check Your Ride’…
