COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO)– Health Officials in South Carolina are launching a new web application which provides restaurant food ratings and scores from The S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control. The S.C. Food Grades program allows you to find restaurants on the map and then click to view the two most recent inspection scores. say officials. You can also view…
Columbia, S.C (WOLO) — The death of 64 year old Legendary Basketball Coach Pat Summitt has taken the sports world by storm. The news of Summitt’s death even touching some right here in the Midlands, including South Carolina Women’s Head Basketball Coach Dawn Staley. The American basketball Hall of Fame player and Gamecocks Coach, Dawn Staley, took to twitter Tuesday…
COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO)– It’s Runoff Election Day in South Carolina. Polls are open from 7am-7pm. Voter turnout is expected to be low, just two weeks ago on Election Day officials said only about 14 percent of registered voters cast their ballot. In Richland County, the race for the Richland County Council District 10 seat is in a runoff. In Lexington…
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — Federal prosecutors want Dylann Roof’s defense team to disclose a list of mitigating factors they will use in the sentencing phase of the trial to stave off the death penalty for the 22-year-old Eastover man accused of killing nine people in a downtown Charleston church. Citing the federal cases against Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Gary…
KNOXVILLE, T.N. (WOLO) — Former University of Tennessee women’s basketball coach Pat Summitt has died at 64. Summitt was the winningest coach in Division I college basketball history. She led the Lady Vols to eight national championships. Her son, Tyler Summitt, released a statement on his mother’s death. It reads in part, “She died peacefully this morning at Sherrill…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – South Carolina voters are returning to the polls to settle runoffs for party nominations in 13 General Assembly districts. There are six state Senate primaries being decided Tuesday, including three involving incumbents, as well as seven state House primaries. There are no statewide races. Candidates needed 50 percent plus one vote during the June 14 primary…
(CNN) – Pet fish gets a prosthetic eye to keep him from getting bullied by his tankmates. Categories: News Tags: Fish, pet, Prosthetic Eye
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO) – Quiana Anderson Reed was recently crowned Mrs. South Carolina United States 2016. She will go on to represent the state this summer in Las Vegas, NV in the national Mrs. United States Pageant, Inc. A resident of Duncan, Reed is the Director for Recruitment at Spartanburg Community College. According to a press release, 33-year-old Anderson, decided to compete…
A quilt donated to Mother Emanuel (Bill Burr/WCIV CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Some of the hundreds of prayer quilts donated to Mother Emanuel AME Church after last year’s church shootings are being displayed in Charleston. The quilts are on display through Thursday at the Charleston Civil Design Center near the church. In the days following the shootings on June 17…
A unanimous Supreme Court on Monday overturned the bribery conviction of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell in a ruling that could make it harder for prosecutors to bring corruption cases against elected officials. McDonnell had been found guilty in 2014 of accepting more than $165,000 in gifts and loans from a wealthy businessman in exchange for promoting a dietary supplement….
