CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) — A 20-year-old Clemson University student has died after falling from a roof. The Pickens County coroner tells local news outlets that Thomas Heard Few of Greenville was pronounced dead early Sunday after he was taken to a Greenville hospital. Clemson police say they arrived to find Few lying on the ground after they were called around 12:45…
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) – JetBlue Airways is ending its twice-daily nonstop service between Charleston and Washington, D.C. this fall. The last flight is scheduled for Oct. 26. The Post and Courier reports JetBlue launched twice-weekly service in 2014 to D.C., a year after touching down in Charleston with initial flights to New York and Boston. Charleston airport CEO Paul Campbell…
COLUMBIA,SC (WOLO)- Columbia police are looking for a man who robbed a local convenience store at gunpoint Saturday night. The armed robbery happened at the Gaz-Bah convenience store on West Beltline Boulevard. Officers say a male suspect left on foot after stealing an unknown amount of cash. No injuries were reported. Anyone with information is asked to call Crimestoppers at…
(Photo Courtesy: the Columbia Museum of Art) Columbia, S.C. – The Columbia Museum of Art is giving you a chance to get a little R and R during Self-Care Sunday. Organizers say it is a first of its kind event catered to dedicating a day full of activities that will help you find ways to treat yourself to wellness and well…
SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) – A Spartanburg business man is accused of pocketing more than $500,000 paid to him by the Town of Pacolet to refurbish and repurpose an aging mill building. The State Law Enforcement Division arrested 64-year-old Callis Anderson on Thursday on charges including embezzling $10,000 or more and failure to pay employees. It’s unknown if he’s represented by…
SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) – A South Carolina woman has been sentenced to 35 years in prison after she admitted shooting her boyfriend to death. The Spartanburg Herald-Journal reports 34-year-old Amy N. Taylor, of Chesnee, interrupted her trial Wednesday to plead guilty to murder. According to a statement from the 7th Circuit Solicitor’s Office, Circuit Judge Lee Alford issued the sentence…
RICHLAND COUNTY,SC (WOLO)-Deputies are asking the public’s help finding four people who broke into a local business and stole hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of cell phones Saturday morning. The incident happened at 3:00a.m. at the Best buy on Two Notch Road. Deputies say the four suspects stole three crates of cell phones from the location which totaled approximately…
A 32-year-old man was arrested Friday in North Myrtle in connection to a sexual assault on June 25th, according to a spokesperson for the City of North Myrtle Beach. Derby C. Sykes of Bladenboro, North Carolina is charged with criminal sexual conduct, third degree. Police say Sykes allegedly made contact with a 16-year-old girl who was swimming in the ocean…
After Marshae Jones was shot in the stomach, she lost her pregnancy. Now, a grand jury has indicted her for manslaughter in the death of her unborn fetus, while declining to hand up a criminal indictment against Ebony Jemison — the woman who shot her during a scuffle between the two women. Despite the grand jury indictment. prosecutors in Jefferson…
ORANGEBURG COUNTY, SC (WOLO)- A Holly Hill woman has been charged after a man was discovered to have suffered a fatal gunshot wound. Sabrina Strickland, 50, is being charged with murder and possession of a weapon during a violent crime. Orangeburg County Sheriff’s investigators were called to a Target Road residence just before 9:30 p.m on Friday after receiving a…
