COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO) – ABC Columbia sat down with South Carolina Equality’s Director of Operations Jennifer Tague to discuss the group’s reaction to Sunday’s mass shooting in a gay Orlando nightclub. Categories: Local News, National News
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO) – The Capital Club, one of the state’s longest running gay bars, held a candlelight vigil for the victims of the Pulse Nightclub shooting Sunday night. Categories: Local News, News
Santa Monica, C.A. (WOLO) — The same day as what is now being dubbed the worst mass shooting in US history in at an LGBT nightclub in Orlando Florida, another man, thousands of miles away is arrested. While law enforcement officials maintain the two incidents are not related, they believe they were able to thwart a possible attack at a…
LEXINGTON, S.C. (WOLO) – The Lexington County Sheriff’s Department has partnered with the Cayce-West Columbia Lions Club to collect new and used eyeglasses and hearing aids to support the Lions’ mission of assisting children and young adults who experience hearing and sight problems. New and used eyeglasses and hearing aids will be accepted June 13-27 at the following locations: Lexington…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO) — Richland School District Two Food Services, operated by Sodexo will again serve free, nutritious meals on weekdays this summer. Students up to age 18 can enjoy a variety of healthy breakfasts and lunches that meet and exceed nutritional standards set by the United States Department of Agriculture and the National School Lunch Program. Meals will be served Monday through…
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The names of Confederate generals still adorn street signs in Charleston’s public housing projects, and a heroic waterfront statue dedicated to the Confederate Defenders of Charleston still faces Fort Sumter, where the first shots of the Civil War were fired. Just down from the Emanuel AME church where nine black parishioners studying their Bibles were gunned…
WASHINGTON (AP) _ Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are adjusting their presidential politicking after the worst mass shooting in U.S. history. Clinton is postponing her first joint event with President Barack Obama on Wednesday in Wisconsin after the night club shooting in Florida. Trump says he’s changing the focus of his speech Monday at a college in New Hampshire from…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO) – In response to the tragedy in Orlando, Florida, Reformation Lutheran Church will hold a candlelight prayer vigil Monday at 6 p.m. The vigil is being organized in cooperation with South Carolina Equality, the South Carolina Gay and Lesbian Business Guild and the Harriett Hancock Center. It will be held in the church sanctuary located at 1118 Union Street…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO) – Leaders of Columbia mosques and local Muslim community released a statement Sunday, expressing deep shock at the mass shooting in Orlando, Florida that left at least 50 people dead. “We strongly condemn this barbaric act against humanity,” said Chaudhry Sadiq, President, Peace and Integration Council of North America (PICNA) and President, Masjid Noor Ul Huda. “There can be…
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) – Three congressional primaries will be up for grabs Tuesday including a closely watched race between a state legislator and an incumbent GOP congressman. That race has state Rep. Jenny Horne’s challenging U.S. Rep. Mark Sanford in the Lowcountry. Sanford is a former governor who disappeared for five days in 2009, telling his staff he was hiking…
