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29 women, 7 men lost to domestic violence honored at Silent Witness Ceremony

COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO) — The National Domestic Violence Hotline reported answering over 440,000 calls, texts, and chats in 2022. To honor lives lost to domestic violence here in South Carolina, the attorney general’s office held the 26th Annual Silent Witness Ceremony. Family and friends joined together at the SC State House to honor their loved ones taken from them as…

What you need to know as student loan repayments resume this month.

Federal student loan borrowers will be required to pay their monthly student loan bills starting in October. The pandemic-related pause from 2020, was providing relief to nearly 44 million borrowers by freezing their accounts. After several extensions by both the Trump and Biden administrations, the pause expired after Congress prohibited the president from extending it another time. Restarting payments all at…