Myrtle Beach, SC (WPDE) — more than 50 years ago– Richard McCleary gave his infant son up for adoption— .and hadn’t seen him since, that is until Friday. Amanda Kinseth with our ABC sister station WPDE was there at the Myrtle Beach International Airport and shares the heartwarming moment as father and son reunite Categories: Local News, News, State
CPD investigating deadly shooting in the 4600 block of Catherine Avenue. (Courtesy CPD) COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO) – Columbia Police are investigating a deadly shooting Friday night in north Columbia. One male victim has died. It happened in the 4600 block of Catherine Avenue which is around the Eau Claire neighborhood. Details are limited but CPD says officers responded to the…
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – A Minnesota court has set a June sentencing date for Derek Chauvin, who was convicted of murder and manslaughter in the death of George Floyd. Online court records say Chauvin will be sentenced on June 16 at 1:30 p.m., by Judge Peter Cahill, the Hennepin County judge who oversaw the trial. Chauvin, 45, was convicted Tuesday of…
COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO) – The commanding general at Fort Jackson says the soldier seen in a viral video shoving and yelling at a black man is not facing additional disciplinary actions right now. Jonathan Pentland, an active-duty soldier, has already been charged with third degree assault and battery for shoving the victim on a sidewalk in his neighborhood April 12….
The Columbia Police Department says another arrest has been made in connection with the assault that occurred at the Colony Apartments Monday.
The Gamecock baseball team scored four runs in the sixth and two in the eighth and the pitching trio of Brannon Jordan, Andrew Peters and Brett Kerry held Arkansas to just four hits in a 6-2 win over the Razorbacks on Friday afternoon at Founders Park in game one of a doubleheader.
Due to severe weather expected tomorrow, the City of Columbia is urging drivers to avoid flood prone streets.
A U.S. health panel says it’s time to resume use of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine, despite a very rare risk of blood clots. Out of nearly 8 million people vaccinated before the U.S. suspended J&J’s shot, health officials uncovered 15 cases of a highly unusual kind of blood clot, three of them fatal.
Tomorrow is National Drug Take Back Day. This afternoon, Attorney General Alan Wilson and Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott held a news conference encouraging South Carolinians to go by one of several drop off sites Saturday to drop off unused prescription medications.
President Joe Biden is preparing a plan to raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans. The increases are expected to nearly double the capital gains tax for people who make more than $1 million per year. It’s to pay for his trillion dollar American Family Plan, which will fund things like child care, paid family leave and free community college tuition.
