(ABC News) — Federal officials around the world today are urgently trying to track the backgrounds and contacts of the newly-married parents of a baby girl who killed 14 people in California last week in a suspected ISIS-inspired attack, as a new photograph emerged showing the future terrorists entering the U.S. together for the first time last year. The image,…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Will Muschamp has received a 5-year, $16 million deal to lead the South Carolina football program. University trustees approved the contract Monday morning, a day after South Carolina announced he would replace Steve Spurrier. Muschamp’s contract pays him $3 million in the first year, increases each year after by $100,000 and contains a variety of incentives….
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO) — Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott is requesting the community’s assistance in locating a suspect wanted for stealing over $7,000 worth of merchandise. Sheriff Lott said that sometime between 6 p.m. on Monday, November 2, to Wednesday, November 11 one or multiple suspects broke into a business at 1000 Bluff Industrial Boulevard. Authorities say the suspect(s) was…
WALTERBORO, S.C. (WCIV) — After almost four decades, Walterboro police have made an arrest in a murder case that’s been cold since 1978. The suspect, 59-year-old James Willie Butterfield, was charged on Tuesday with murder, criminal sexual conduct in the first degree, and burglary in the first degree. According to the original incident report, in the early hours of May…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO) — Deputies with the Richland County Sheriff’s Department are looking for a man wanted for attempted murder. Sheriff Leon Lott said 25-year-old Leroy Beaton II and the victim were involved in a verbal altercation that became physical. Beaton allegedly pulled out a gun and shot the victim Lott said. The incident happened around 2 a.m. on Sunday,…
The Louisiana State University marching band will learn the University of South Carolina’s fight song and alma mater.
SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) — A Clifton man has been sentenced to life in prison for shooting his wife to death a day after her birthday.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO) — Sixty years ago, Rosa Parks, a 42-year-old secretary for the NAACP defied Jim Crow laws that called for the separation of the races by refusing to move to the back of a bus in order to allow a white passenger to have her seat. Her defiant act in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955 was a pivotal point…
Photo courtesy of WCIV CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — The wait to know whether federal prosecutors will seek the death penalty in the Dylann Roof murder trial will go on for at least another couple months, it appears after Tuesday morning’s bar meeting. U.S. Attorneys told Judge Richard Gergel that they had not yet filed the formal paperwork to the federal…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO) — Richland County Department of Social Services (DSS) officials report that an infant was brought to Palmetto Health-Richland on November 26 and placed under the protection of Safe Haven staff. Upon the information and belief of the agency, the child falls under the jurisdiction of “Daniel’s Law,” the Safe Haven for Abandoned Babies Act, officials say. Officials…
