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CPD search for woman in connection with robbery

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Columbia, S.C. (WOLO) – Columbia Police Department investigators need your help identifying a woman wanted for stealing packages off of the front porch of a home in East Columbia yesterday (3/6). Investigators released surveillance video (below) of a female stealing a package from a victim’s home. Officials say the incident occurred shortly before 9:00 a.m. on Palm Sedge Loop in…
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Vehicles damaged by thrown objects along interstate

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Columbia, S.C. (WOLO) – The Columbia Police Department is currently investigating several incidents of vehicles being damaged by thrown objects on Interstate-126. The incidents were reported yesterday at 7 p.m. on I-126 East (Exit 106) & at Colonial Life Boulevard. Four vehicles were damaged after an unidentified suspect threw an unknown blunt object onto their vehicles, but there were no reports of…
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McMaster Names Condon Santee-Cooper Chairman

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Columbia, S.C. (WOLO)–Today Gov. Henry McMaster named Charleston Attorney Charlie Condon as the new chairman of Santee Cooper’s Board of Directors. Condon fills the position left vacant by former chairman Leighton Lord. Lord resigned from the post back in December after Gov. McMaster called for his resignation in the wake of the abandonment of the construction of two nuclear reactors…
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SC House Advances Bill Cutting Customer Bills Over Failed Nuke Project

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Columbia, S.C. (AP, WOLO)–South Carolina lawmakers have advanced a measure aimed at drawing down utility bills in the wake of a nuclear construction project failure that’s already cost ratepayers billions. The House voted 107-1 Wednesday to give second reading to a bill halting customer payments for the failed project at the V.C. Summer Nuclear Station. One more procedural vote must…