COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO) – The American Red Cross is beginning the new year with an urgent need for blood donors. The organization says it’s holiday season blood drives left them nearly 37,000 donations short of their goal. For sickle cell patients like Lorraine Bowman, blood donations could be a matter of life or death. According to the Red Cross, Lorraine…
COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO)–Snow or not, SC DOT crews are working hard to make sure our roads will be safe. ABC Columbia stopped by the DOT complex along shop road Thursday, where crews were prepping the piles of salt and the trucks. DOT workers are also moving to new winter weather shifts to cover the roads. On Thursday SC DOT crews…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – Prosecutors in Dylann Roof’s death penalty trial have called dozens of witnesses, but no one who knew Roof before he killed nine black church worshippers. But Roof’s own journal and manifesto writings shed light on a racist, hate-filled loner who dropped out of high school and posed in photos with the Confederate flag. Prosecutors have painted…
A state court judge has delayed indefinitely convicted church shooter Dylann Roof’s murder trial.
The families of the Charleston church shooting victims are recounting their tragic stories of loss and grief to the jurors who will decide whether or not convicted killer Dylann Roof will be sentenced to death.
Rain, snow and brutal cold are in store for much of the country this week as several weather systems move in from the west.
Thomas Secor SUMTER, S.C. (WOLO) – The Sumter County Sheriff’s Office is looking for the suspect in a fatal shooting Wednesday night in Sumter County. Authorities say witnesses identified the shooter as 35-year-old Thomas Secor. The shooting occurred around 9:30 p.m. in the 4000 block of Briar Branch Road, when Secor was arguing with the victim when things escalated, authorities say….
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO) – Ahead of potential winter weather this weekend, the Red Cross shares tips to make sure your family is prepared for emergencies. As the New Year arrived and many people were making resolutions about things they want to accomplish in 2017, the American Red Cross was busy responding to home fires. Over the holiday weekend, volunteers from…
Columbia Police are investigating an accident involving a school bus and a bicyclist.
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WOLO) – Dylann Roof delivered a very brief opening statement in federal court on Wednesday as the penalty phase of his trial got underway. Roof, acting as his own attorney, spoke for the first time to the jury that will decide if he should be sentenced to death or life in prison for fatally shooting nine black parisioners…
