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Ibotta teams up with Walmart for holidays

Ibotta and Walmart offer some doorbuster deals just in time for the holidays

(CNN) WalMart is teaming up with shopping app Ibotta, for a huge thanksgiving promotion this year. According to Ibotta customers shopping for food at Walmart online can get 100% percent cash back on specific items. To get this deal, people have to download the Ibotta’s extension and link it to their Walmart account. Walmart.com this extension will tally up the…

SC announces the first flu death during spike in COVID-19 cases

Health experts say the victim died as a result of complications from influenza

(Associated Press) –The state’s first flu death of the season was announced Wednesday. The agency announced that an individual from the Pee Dee region has died from complications due to the flu. the person’s age and gender we not released. The Department of Health and Environmental Control (D-HEC) recommends everyone six months or older receive a flu vaccine. For more…

South Carolina schedules execution but doesn’t have drugs

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – The state of South Carolina has scheduled what would be its first execution in nearly a decade, but corrections officials say they still don’t have any lethal injection drugs to carry out the execution. Richard Moore (SCDC) The state Supreme Court has scheduled the execution of Richard Bernard Moore for Dec. 4. The 54-year-old inmate has…

Comedian brings laughs to Segra Park Friday

Funny man Rob Schneider is hoping to lighten things up with a few laughs at Segra Park Friday November 20

Image: Columbia FireFlies Columbia, SC (WOLO) — 2020 has been a rough, unpredictable and in some cases devastating year for many not just here in the Palmetto state but across the country and the world as people comes to terms with the ‘new normal’ of an ongoing pandemic. While the coronavirus is ongoing, and daily numbers continue to spike, one…

DHEC experts say it could take months before most South Carolinians can get a COVID-19 vaccine

This comes despite Pfizer-BioNTech's plan to file for emergency authorization to mass produce doses this week

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO) — Several companies are on the doorstep of getting federal approval for their COVID-19 vaccines, but South Carolina experts say it could take some time before everyone can get their shots. In the last week, Moderna and the Pfizer-BioNTech partnership have announced that their vaccines have been more than 90% effective at preventing COVID-19. The CEO of…

Police say the holidays are a prime time for car break-ins

Columbia police want to make sure thieves don’t turn your happy holidays into a blue Christmas. Wednesday afternoon, police and other law enforcement as well as city officials held a news conference asking Midlands residents to be aware of items you leave in your car. Police say the holidays are a prime time for car break-ins.