Six people are dead after at least 23 tornadoes tore through Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia on Thursday. One person died in Georgia, where officials are describing the damage southwest of Atlanta as “catastrophic.”
Sumter Police have released video of the tractor trailer that was involved in a fatal hit and run with a missing woman last week.
Fairfield County, SC (WOLO) –Candles lit, and tears flowing down the faces of family and friends trying to grasp the loss of a life gone too soon. “I was woke to a call that my son had been shot.” It’s a mother’s worst nightmare, that is now Amber Mullen’s reality. That is how the sheriff’s department says 18 year old…
( Report by: Nick Papantonis) CONWAY, S.C. (WPDE) — The concept of “herd immunity” is once again in the headlines as South Carolina prepares to transition to the next phase of the coronavirus vaccination rollout. While not every scientist and doctor believes in it, it’s generally accepted as the point when a virus cannot easily spread within a population because…
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas officials on Thursday raised the death toll from February’s winter storm and blackouts to at least 111 people — nearly doubling the state’s initial tally following one of the worst power outages in U.S. history. The frigid weather also was blamed for dozens of more deaths across other Southern states including Arkansas, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Kentucky…
UNDATED (AP) — Nearly half of U.S. elementary schools were open for full-time classroom learning as of last month. But a Biden administration survey says the share of students with in-person instruction has varied greatly by region and by race — with most nonwhite students taught entirely online. For the White House, the results of the national survey released yesterday…
The Riverbanks Zoo was able to help save the life of a North Carolina man after he was bitten by his pet. Officials in Raleigh say, on Sunday, the man was bitten by his pet Green Mamba, a highly venomous snake.
A military helicopter touched down on the University of South Carolina’s campus Thursday afternoon. UofSC’s ROTC program, in partnership with the South Carolina National Guard, displayed an Apache Helicopter at Blatt Field.
Spring is in the air, and the Midlands Spring Plant and Flower Sale is back at the South Carolina State Farmers Market. The four day sale will run from April 8-10 from 8 a.m.-6-pm. and from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. on April 11.
A new study has found COVID-19 vaccines are effective and safe in pregnant and lactating women.
