COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO) — Operation Palmetto Employment is looking to get some of our country’s bravest back in the job market. On Thursday, the statewide military employment initiative is inviting CEOs, business owners, recruiters and hiring managers to their 2016 OPE Midlands Summit, to learn more on the value of military hires. The event is takes place at Sysco of Columbia. An outdoor…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP)– Public officials in South Carolina would have to report who pays them under legislation approved by the Senate. The Senate voted 40-1 on Wednesday to require elected and appointed officials to annually disclose their sources of income. Beyond legislators, that includes the governor, members of city and county councils, school boards and many other boards. They would…
LEXINGTON, S.C. (WOLO) – One Lexington school is celebrating ten years of bringing smiles to hundreds of children around the world. When Pleasant Hill Elementary school started in 2006, P.E. teacher Thomas Cronin wanted to organize a way for students to give back. He found his mechanism for doing so through a charity he’d supported for much of his life:…
Richland County, S.C. (WOLO) — Senator Joel Lourie and Representatives Beth Bernstein and James Smith say it was an online news report with allegations of nepotism and pay offs happening at the Recreation Commission that prompted this investigation. All three legislators, who are part of the body responsible for appointing commission members, say these accusations are too serious to be…
Columbia , S.C. (WOLO) — On Wednesday, dozens packed a Senate subcommittee hearing on a bill that would require individuals to go to the restroom that matches the gender on their birth certificate. Critics say the bill unfairly targets those in the transgender community. At the hearing, individuals on both sides of the issue expressed their opinions on the matter….
PHILADELPHIA (AP) – Cosby hopes the move could block the decade-old testimony from being used in his criminal sexual assault case or the legal battles he’s fighting with women across the country who accuse him of sexual assault or defamation. Cosby, 78, hopes to overturn a ruling that made the documents public last year at the request of The Associated…
FOREST ACRES, S.C. (WOLO) — Officers with the Forest Acres Police Department are looking for two suspects who they say used stolen debit and credit cards to purchase almost $8,000 worth of merchandise. Authorities say that on Friday, April, 1 the pair broke into the victim’s vehicle in the 4100 block of Forest Drive and then used the stolen cards…
Judge JC Nicholson /WCIV CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) – A South Carolina judge on Wednesday delayed until next year the state death-penalty trial of Dylann Roof who is charged with killing nine black parishioners at a Charleston church in June of 2015. Circuit Judge J.C. Nicholson granted a request by Roof’s defense lawyers who provided documents saying a doctor needed two…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – The Latest on the South Carolina House’s road funding debate: 3:05 p.m. Republican senators say the House changed a roads bill to deliberately kill the proposal to change how South Carolina’s road agency is governed. The House voted Wednesday to have both senators and House members confirm the governor’s appointments to the Department of Transportation board….
Columbia,S.C. (WOLO) — It can be a taxing time of the year as you rush to get that paper work into Uncle Sam on time. A new study shows that some of you are willing to do just about anything to avoid the inevitable. Click here to see what some would do to avoid the tax time blues. Categories:…
