Columbia, S.C. (WOLO) – South Carolina lawmakers voted 107 to 1 today to pass a measure that would allow SCE&G customers to stop paying for the failed VC Summer project, but they say the Senate has done nothing to help move the bill forward. SCANA customers have paid more than 2 billion dollars toward the company’s debt on the failed…
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COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO, AP) – The South Carolina Senate has agreed to bring back the electric chair as a means of execution in the state. The Senate voted 26 to 12 Tuesday (3/7) for the proposal to use the electric chair if the state does not have the drugs to carry out lethal injection. South Carolina’s execution drugs expired in…
Another Midlands teacher has been recognized for their work inside the classroom and is now in the running for teacher of the year.
A sign manufacturer is bring some big business to Richalnd County
Columbia, S.C. (WOLO) – Columbia Police Department investigators need your help identifying a woman wanted for stealing packages off of the front porch of a home in East Columbia yesterday (3/6). Investigators released surveillance video (below) of a female stealing a package from a victim’s home. Officials say the incident occurred shortly before 9:00 a.m. on Palm Sedge Loop in…
Columbia, S.C. (WOLO) – The Columbia Police Department is currently investigating several incidents of vehicles being damaged by thrown objects on Interstate-126. The incidents were reported yesterday at 7 p.m. on I-126 East (Exit 106) & at Colonial Life Boulevard. Four vehicles were damaged after an unidentified suspect threw an unknown blunt object onto their vehicles, but there were no reports of…
Columbia, S.C. (AP, WOLO)–South Carolina lawmakers have advanced a measure aimed at drawing down utility bills in the wake of a nuclear construction project failure that’s already cost ratepayers billions. The House voted 107-1 Wednesday to give second reading to a bill halting customer payments for the failed project at the V.C. Summer Nuclear Station. One more procedural vote must…
The family of an Orangeburg teen who was reported missing says the girl is now home.
A man has been taken into custody following a brief car chase with local law enforcement.
