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‘Flip & Give’ program gives Shandon home new curb appeal

(photo courtesy: The Moore Company) Columbia,SC (WOLO) — According to event organizers with the real estate group,  The Moore Company say a community effort to renovate a home and make it look completely different, before putting it on the market, was a year in the making. The volunteer program that changed the look of a home in the in Columbia’s…

Deputies in Darlington exchange gunfire with suspects inside car dealership

Darlington, SC (WOLO) — Deputies in Darlington county say officers exchanged gunfire with several people inside a Hartsville car dealership. Investigators say deputies responded after an alarm was triggered at the Dodge dealership on highway 151. Officials say neither the suspects nor the deputies were injured. Deputies say one person was taken into custody but the name of that individual…

5 year old drowns in Sumter hotel swimming pool

(Photo Courtesy: GoFundMe.com) Sumter, SC (WOLO) — According to Sumter County Coroner, Coroner Baker EMS responded to the Econo Lodge in the 200 block of N. Washington Street around 6 p.m. Saturday June 1st, 2019. Baker says once officials arrived the little girl was unconscious and transported to Prisma Health Toumey Hospital where she was pronounced dead an hour later…

Jury finds Timothy Jones Jr. guilty of murdering his five children

It took the jury six hours to come up with the verdict

LEXINGTON, S.C. (WOLO) — After more than three weeks of testimony, the jury heard enough evidence to convict Timothy Jones Jr. of the murders of his five children. The jury deliberated for six hours on Monday and Tuesday, concluding beyond a reasonable doubt Jones Jr. murdered his five children back in August 2014. Nearly sixty people took the stand over the…