Columbia, SC (WOLO)– A scary moment during an SC State basketball game when one of the team members, Ty Solomon, collapsed and needed immediate medical attention. During Saturday’s game against North Carolina State, SC State player Ty Solomon fell to the ground and his heart suddenly stopped beating. Thanks to the immediate response of emergency personnel performing…
Kershaw Co., S.C. (WOLO)– Kershaw County deputies say they arrested a man for intentionally running over two people last Friday in Elgin. Investigators say Steven Lee is charged with two counts of attempted murder. According to deputies on December 1st Lee ran over the victims in his GMC pickup on Watts Hill Rd after an argument. Investigators say Lee’s truck…
Columbia, S.C. (WOLO)–South Carolina’s first African-American Supreme Court Chief Justice passed away Sunday according Clerk of Court Brenda Shealy. No other details surrounding Ernest Finney’s death were released. Finney served as an associate justice from 1985 to 1994 and chief justice from 1994 until his retirement in 2000. Columbia Mayor Steve Benjamin tweeting Monday Morning; Chief Justice Finney was a…
Thousands of riders from across the U.S. will descend on Dorn VA Medical Center Sunday, December 10, for the annul Christmas Motorcycle Charity Ride for Veterans.
An early morning fire has displaced 19 residents at a Columbia apartment complex, according to Red Cross of S.C.
COLUMBIA SC (WOLO) For fifty years, the Nutcracker has been a Columbia City Ballet tradition, and this year is no different. According to the ballet company’s Executive Director William Starrett, this year, as with years past will be a different twist on the classic tale. “We have pulled out all the stops,” says Starrett, who writes and choreographs the performance…
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) – Charlotte police have made an arrest after a fight in the stands of the ACC Championship football game that was seen by thousands on social media. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department spokesman Keith Trietley said stadium officials notified police about the disturbance in a seating section. Trietley says officers determined Reed Fletcher was a primary aggressor and arrested…
New Year’s Day is game day for the Gamecocks. Carolina has accepted an invitation to take part in the 2018 Outback Bowl to face off with Michigan.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A former South Carolina police officer will soon learn how long he’ll spend in prison for the shooting death – captured on video by a witness – of an unarmed motorist. A sentencing hearing is scheduled to begin in Charleston on Monday for Michael Slager, the former North Charleston police officer in jail since pleading guilty…
In this image taken early Thursday, Nov. 30, 2017, Alex Bowen poses in the kitchen at a Waffle House in West Columbia, S.C. When Bowen found the only worker at the empty South Carolina Waffle House asleep, he took his meal into his own hands. Bowen chronicled with selfies how he made his own double Texas bacon cheese steak melt…
