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SCDOT encourages community to report area potholes

Community can help SCDOT combat area potholes. COLUMBIA S.C. (WOLO)-South Carolina’s Department of Transportation is asking that people report area potholes. SCDOT will be conducting statewide pothole repairs in what they are calling a “pothole blitz”. Officials say a rainy fall and early winter has contributed to the increase in potholes. This is in an effort to repair roads and…

Angel Tree Delivers, thanks to all who donated

COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO)– The Salvation Army and ABC Columbia want to extend a big thank you to all who donated to the Angel Tree. Because of kind donors, children across the Midlands rung in the holiday season with a Merry Christmas. This year, 525 children’s Christmas wishes were answered in the Salvation Army’s Angel Tree program. ABC Columbia is a proud…

Police: NYC Triple homicide suspect may be in South Carolina

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) – Police say a suspect wanted for killing three people in a shooting last summer in New York City may be hiding in coastal South Carolina. Charleston Police spokesman Charles Francis says officers are helping look for Sam Cross in Charleston and nearby Colleton County. New York Police say Cross shot and killed 33-year-old Mustafa Tarver; 33-year-old…

Keep the Midlands Beautiful offers free mulch Saturday

Columbia, SC (WOLO) — The payoff is coming for all the Christmas trees that have been dropped off over the last two weeks for the Grinding of the Greens. Keep the Midlands Beautiful is giving away free mulch from its Grinding of the Greens program today Saturday January 12th. The organization says the giveaway begins at eight thirty this morning…