COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO)– Teachers are leaving the classroom and not returning to the profession at rapid rates and South Carolina is having a hard time filling in the gaps. The Center for Educator Recruitment, Retention, and Advancement, also known as CERRA, released the state’s Annual Educator Supply and Demand Report. The report shows that more than 7,000 teachers did not…
Rolling Study Halls is an imitative sponsored by Google to help students in rural areas like Pelion, to help close the gap for homework for students who have longer commutes home with WI-FI enabled school buses.
Authorities say a man who escaped from his burning South Carolina home was struck and killed by a pickup truck a short time later.
Sumter police have charged three teens after an armed robbery Friday in the parking lot of a local BB&T.
Michael Corbitt, 25, arrested for physical and sexual assault in 2018 SPRINGFIELD, SC (WOLO) – A Springfield man arrested earlier this month for criminal sexual conduct has been arrested once again, this time for murder. Michael Corbitt, 25, now faces a murder charge with a scheduled first court appearance on Tuesday (1/15). He was arrested following a weekend shooting incident…
Weeks after Deputies say a couple is caught stealing thousands of dollars worth of jewelry from an Orangeburg Walmart, they are identified, but not
Students at Lake Murray Elementary ended its annual tradition of giving by collecting 207 coats to give Mission Lexington.
Columbia, S.C. (AP)–South Carolina lawmakers are again introducing legislation to legalize marijuana for treatment of critically ill patients in the state. Beaufort Republican Tom Davis tells The Associated Press he plans to file the Compassionate Care Act on Tuesday. Republican House Rep. Peter McCoy is sponsoring similar legislation in the House. Davis tried last year to get approval for the…
Columbia, S.C. (AP)–South Carolina regulators have changed their minds and ruled that a private utility did intentionally withhold information and mislead them about a project to build a pair of nuclear reactors that ultimately failed. The Public Service Commission voted Monday that South Carolina Electric & Gas was “imprudent” in its dealing with regulators over the reactors. The utility abandoned…
Community can help SCDOT combat area potholes. COLUMBIA S.C. (WOLO)-South Carolina’s Department of Transportation is asking that people report area potholes. SCDOT will be conducting statewide pothole repairs in what they are calling a “pothole blitz”. Officials say a rainy fall and early winter has contributed to the increase in potholes. This is in an effort to repair roads and…
