City of Columbia kicks off the annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Honor the Dream Food Drive benefiting Harvest Hope Food Bank. Ple
Lexington County residents may get a visit from the Federal Emergency Management Agency this week
We have an update on the escaped monkeys out of Yemassee.
Columbia, S.C. (WOLO)– Edward Simmer has been named the state’s first Director of Public Health. Governor Henry McMaster made the announcement Tuesday morning. “Dr. Edward Simmer joined DHEC in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and immediately proved to be an exceptional leader and invaluable member of Team South Carolina,” said Governor Henry McMaster. “As interim director of DPH, he…
Columbia, S.C. (WOLO)–Midlands residents will have a new option when flying the friendly skies. Tuesday Columbia Metropolitan Airport and Allegiant announced the airline will now fly out of CAE. The flights will begin in February. To celebrate, the company says it is offering one-way fares for as low as $39. Categories: Local News, News, Richland
Lancaster Co. (WCCB)–The Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office is working to identify a body found last week off Bethel Road in the southwestern part of the county. According to LCSO, the skeletal remains were found on November 13th by a member of a utility crew working in the area. Several bones and “other items” were scattered over an area of about…
Washington, D.C. (CNN) –South Carolina Representative Nancy Mace introduced a resolution to ban transgender women from using women’s restrooms in US capitol buildings. Mace is pushing for the ban less than two months before America’s first out transgender person enters Congress. Sarah McBride will be sworn-in in January as a new representative from Delaware. Mace says McBride is a biological…
Columbia, S.C. (WOLO)–The woman convicted of killing her two children in union county in 1994 is up for parole. Officials with the Department of Probation, Pardon, and Parole services say Susan Smith’s parole hearing will take place in Columbia Wednesday. Smith began her 29-year sentence in 1994, after she was convicted on two counts of murder in the deaths of…
Governor Henry McMaster is proclaiming December as “Wreaths Across America Month” — recognizing a group that’s dedicated to honoring our Veterans throughout the country and across South Carolina.
The Columbia Police Department has arrested a man accused in a deadly stabbing from 2021
