COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO) – A flu-related illness has taken the life of a child in the Midlands, according to the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC). The death occurred in DHEC’s Midlands Health Region. This is the first pediatric death reported in South Carolina this season. South Carolina suffers its 1st pediatric flu related death, this according to…
Deputies say a corrections officer is recovering after an Alvin S. Glen Detention Center inmate is accused of assaulting the officer during an argument.
Chapin, SC (WOLO)– Maddie Edwards is only 7-years-old but knows how big of an impact kindness can have. In the land of pencils and crayons, and wiggling bodies, there is one girl who stands out. In a fire-truck red dress, Maddie is speechless when an EMS crew stops by just to see her, and pay forward an act of kindness she had…
Twenty-two athletes have descended upon Columbia, South Carolina, this weekend to take part in the USA Basketball Women’s National Team’s three-day minicamp.
A’ja Wilson scored 21 points and had nine rebounds to lead No. 7 South Carolina to a 79-66 victory over Alabama on Thursday night.
Local officials are trying to figure out how a body ended up in a Lexington County River.
Columbia, SC (WOLO)– A new bill could have Dreamers paying in-state tuition for college here in South Carolina. Some South Carolina lawmakers are pushing a bill that allows DACA participants in-state tuition and occupational licensing. Representative Neal Collins said he has heard many stories of Dreamers going to school here here all their life, but when it comes time for college,…
ORANGEBURG, S.C. (WOLO)- Half a century has passed since the Orangeburg Massacre but the wounds remain fresh for the for the students who were injured and family members of the men who were killed. Things were emotional Thursday afternoon at South Carolina State as hundreds remembered the night of February 8, 1968 when at least 30 students were injured, three…
a 22 year old suffers non life threatening injuries after police say he took them on a chase before crashing his car while under the influence.
ORANGEBURG, S.C. (AP) – South Carolina State University is marking 50 years since white troopers opened fire on black students in a civil rights protest by hearing from the son of a black man originally charged with causing a riot. Bakari Sellers will speak at the Orangeburg campus at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the Smith-Hammond-Middleton Memorial Center, named for the…
