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Midlands Law enforcement send condolences after Cayce Police officer killed in line of duty

Officer Drew Barr of Cayce Police Department killed Sunday morning

COLUMBIA,  SC (WOLO) –Midlands Law Enforcement agencies are sending thoughts, prayers and condolences to the family of Officer Drew Barr and the Cayce Police Department. The Richland County Sheriff’s Department tweeted: ‘Officer Drew Barr of the Cayce Police Department was killed when shot in the line of duty early Sunday morning. Please keep Officer Barr, his family, friends and the…

Cayce Police officer shot and killed in line of the duty

  CAYCE, S.C. (WOLO) – According the Cayce Police Department, Officer Drew Barr was killed in the line of duty during an early Sunday morning shooting. Police say at approximately 2:48 AM, Cayce police responded to a 911 call at residence 118 Rossmore Road. Deputies found a male individual in the front yard and as they were making contact with him,…

Man armed with guns arrested for trespassing on school property

Deputies say the incident took place Friday afternoon at Dutch Fork High school

FILE Richland Co., SC (WOLO) — The Richland County Sheriff’s Department has arrested a man they was carrying a stolen weapon on school property Friday afternoon. According to deputies,  20 year old Tyshawn Isaiah Lightbourne from Irmo, along with an unidentified woman were approach by a Dutch Folk School Resource Officer (SRO) after a school administrator notified the officer the…

BASIC MARKSMANSHIP TRAINING: Fort Jackson officers demonstrate standard army weapon use

COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO) — Fort Jackson, the largest basic combat training installation in the Army, teaches 45,000 soldiers each year in its basic training program alone. The base employs thousands of workers and contributes more than $2 billion of revenue to the Palmetto State according to a study by the University of South Carolina. “This is the transformation from being…

SC State University gears up for ‘Parade of Champions’

The event was postponed twice due to COVID concerns

Orangeburg, SC (WOLO) — South Carolina State University students, staff, and alumni will finally be able to celebrate the Bulldogs victory in both academics and athletics during the long awaited ‘Parade of Champions’. The event was put on hold twice over the course of one month, after school officials say several student athletes tested positive to COVID. The off, on…

Woman rescued after falling in toilet trying to retrieve cell phone

Fire officials say the woman dropped her cell phone in an outhouse and fell in trying to get it

(ABC News) —QUILCENE, Wash. — A woman who accidentally dropped her cellphone into the hole of an outhouse in a national forest and fell in while trying to retrieve it had to be rescued by firefighters in Washington state. Brinnon Fire Department Chief Tim Manly said the woman, who was at the top of Mount Walker in the Olympic National…

ACLU wins settlement to remove some from Sex Offender Registry

Columbia, SC (WOLO) — In a settlement agreement with South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson along with State Law Enforcement Division Chief Mark Keel those wrongly convicted of sodomy in the state of South Carolina will now be taken off of the Sex Offender Registry in the Palmetto State. The announcement comes after arguments in Mary Geiger Lewis’s courtroom Friday,…