COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO)– A group of local small businesses and environmentalists are rallying against a proposed rate hike. The Energy Coalition launched the “Stop the Blank Check” Project Monday. The Coalition opposes SCE&G’s request for rate hikes for construction of two nuclear plants. An SCE&G spokesman there will always be unexpected costs that come up, but the plants will save…
Lexington Co., S.C. (WOLO)–The Lexington County Sheriff’s Department wants to know how a three-year-old girl got her hands on the gun that she accidentally shot herself with. Captain Adam Myrick says just after 12:30 Monday afternoon deputies responded to a home on Glenn Rd. in Gaston. Myrick says the girl’s injury was not fatal but her condition is unknown at…
COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO)– A massive blaze at a Casket Company in Sumter put area firefighters on alert and blocked traffic. It happened off Magnolia street in Sumter. According to officials, firefighters were able to get the fire under control at 6pm Monday. But it was anticipated to take several more hours to extinguish it. At one point the Lafayette Street…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – A group of small businesses, environmental groups and community leaders are joining together for the first time to ask South Carolina regulators to reject part of a rate increase to pay for nuclear power plants under construction. The group called Stop The Blank Check said Monday it wants the Public Service Commission to refuse South Carolina…
Timothy Napoleon RICHLAND COUNTY, S.C. (WOLO) – Deputies with the Richland County Sheriff’s Department are looking for a suspect who allegedly robbed an employee at the Bluff Road Waffle House at gunpoint. 21-year-old Timothy Napoleon is accused of going to the eatery on May 30, where he then demanded money from the victim and fled with $300. Officials say no one…
SHAW AIR FORCE BASE, S.C. (WOLO) – A spokesperson with Shaw Air Force Base said Monday that a former officer has been charged with possession of child pornography and obstruction of justice. Col. William R. Jones was charged on June 29; a preliminary hearing is scheduled for Aug. 8, officials say in a press release. “The charges are being worked through…
SUMTER, S.C. (WOLO) – The Sumter County Sheriff’s Office arrested a man Sunday evening who they said kidnapped and assaulted his mother and sister. Matt Samuel Cox, 46, of Sumter, was charged with two counts of kidnapping and one count each of assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature and assault and battery, 1 st degree. The warrants state that on or between July…
LEXINGTON, S.C. (WOLO) – Lexington County deputies are searching for a Gaston man wanted on two first degree domestic violence arrest warrants. John Horace Baugher, 44, struck a female victim and threw her to the floor on two occasions, according to the warrants. “Investigators have determined arguments between Baugher and the victim turned physical at a Gaston residence June 25 and…
ORANGEBURG, S.C. (WOLO) – An Orangeburg man has been charged with armed robbery and carjacking after a man was robbed at gunpoint last week. Tykeem Johnson, 20, was charged with armed robbery, carjacking and a weapons charge after his arrest. Bond was denied during a hearing on Friday. A man called Orangeburg County Sheriff’s investigators on July 9 after fleeing…
SUMTER, S.C. (WOLO) – Sumter County Sheriff’s Office deputies are investigating after a suspect in a shooting at a Sumter Club crashed his car into a masonic lodge early Sunday morning. About 2:40 a.m. deputies responded to a call of a reported shooting at a club in the 3800 block of Broad Street. The incident started when man was arguing…
