COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO)– Greenlawn Memorial Park is hosting a community appreciation cookout for volunteers who helped clean up hundreds of desecrated graves. According to organizers, it will take place Saturday from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Staff will grill and serve a lunch of hamburgers and hot dogs for free. The event will kick off at 11:00 a.m. with a…
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — Readers of Travel + Leisure magazine have voted the College of Charleston as the “Most Beautiful College Campus” in America. The college was announced as the winner Thursday afternoon after two weeks of online voting. C of C received nearly 20 percent of the vote, edging the University of Montana for the top spot. College of Charleston was the…
CONWAY, S.C. (AP) – South Carolina prosecutors are offering plea deals to all the four former Horry County police officers charged with sexual misconduct in office. WPDE reports the first officer will go to trial in mid-September if Luke Green, Troy Allen Large, Todd Cox and Darryl Williams don’t accept the plea bargains. All four pleaded innocent and received bond…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO)- In a joint announcement, the director of the South Carolina Department of Corrections and the chief of State Law Enforcement Division said they believe drones and contraband played a role in aiding Jimmy Causey’s escape. “As long as cell phones are continually utilized by inmates in prison we will have things like this, very well-planned escapes as…
Everyone is relieved Jimmy Causey is off the streets again, but no one is more thankful than Jack Swerling. Swerling and his family were held at gunpoint by Causey in 2002. Swerling spoke with us over the phone today to talk about this experience he says felt surreal. Defense attorney Jack Swerling was called immediately Wednesday afternoon when Jimmy Causey…
COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO)– Officials at the largest youth soccer organization in South Carolina are asking parents to remain silent for a whole month while watching league games from the sidelines, following incidents of bad behavior from spectators. Josh Berry hit the streets to get reaction on the new rule. Story here: The South Carolina Youth Soccer Association says the “Silent September”…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) _ Investigators say they are trying to figure out who shot a woman whose body was left in a wheelchair by her boyfriend inside a South Carolina hospital. Authorities said 20-year-old Mayra Sanchez was pronounced dead by doctors after she was found around 4:30 a.m. Friday at Palmetto Health Richland Hospital in Columbia. Richland County deputies said…
courtesy SC Dept. of Corrections COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – Prison officials in South Carolina say an inmate has been captured in Texas after his second escape from a maximum security prison. The South Carolina Department of Corrections said in a Twitter message around early Friday that 46-year-old inmate Jimmy Causey is in custody. Agency spokeswoman Sommer Sharpe says Causey was…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – South Carolina’s Republican Party is opening its wallet to provide a White House panel looking for signs of election fraud with some of the data about voters that the state’s election commission declined to produce. South Carolina GOP Chairman Drew McKissick said Thursday he will buy the voter data as state law allows and turn it…
COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO)–The intense heat in the Midlands means plenty of your neighbors need help beating the heat. The Columbia Police wants to help by giving neighbors in need a way to Fan the Heat. The Police Department is collecting A-C units and fans. If you’d like to help out, by donating, you can drop off your fans and or a-c…
