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Watch: Carolina Cup in Camden

COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO)– Get ready for the pomp and circumstance and one of the Pinnacles of Horse Racing: The Carolina Cup is Saturday in Camden. The 81st annual event, hosted by the Carolina Cup Racing Association, will take place rain or shine. Gates open at 9am Saturday. ABC Columbia’s Jennifer Ready reports. Categories: Local News, News Tags: Carolina Cup

WATCH: Open Studios Art Tour

COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO) –From Pottery to Painting, Saturday and Sunday in Columbia you can tour Artist Studios in an Open House. Columbia Open Studios is a free event in Richland and Lexington Counties showcasing local artists and their works. Saturday, April 2 (10am – 6pm) and Sunday, April 3 (12pm – 6pm) For a full list of artists click here: Categories:…

Watch: Pawmetto Lifeline Introduces “Max”

Columbia,S.C (WOLO) — Pawmetto Lifeline  introduces us to the latest pet of the week looking for a forever home. Click here to find out if you could be the perfect match for this furry friend.   Categories: News Tags: Max, pawmetto pick, Rochelle Dean

Time Running Short for Growers to Get SC Help After Floods

ORANGEBURG, S.C. (AP) — As state lawmakers consider helping South Carolina farmers after last year’s rains and floods time is running short for growers to know if help is coming for spring planting. South Carolina Agriculture Commissioner Hugh Weathers tells The Times and Democrat of Orangeburg that timing now is critical. With lawmakers on break this week, Weathers says the…

Watch: The Latest on USC Basketball Players Charged

Columbia,S.C (WOLO) — Five players with the men’s USC basketball team are fouling out of the season after being suspended for alleged behavior off the court. Two of those players, Eric Cobb and Jamall Gregory are facing charges of damaging several vehicles with a BB gun. The pair was expected to be in court Friday but that unexpectedly changed. A…

Severe Weather Sweeps the South

  ATLANTA (AP) _ Tornadoes swirled through Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama as the severe storms head toward the Carolinas. Emergency management officials Rita White and Harry Markham say one tornado touched down in Eldridge in central Alabama around 8 p.m. Thursday and another hit about hour before in Ardmore in the northern part of the state. There were no immediate…

Watch: Crowds Gather for Final Day of Edna’s #1

Columbia, S.C. (WOLO) — Customers packed the parking lot of Edna’s #1 on Thursday for the restaurant’s final day. Fast food favorites and countless memories is what kept customers coming back to the Midlands staple for more than five decades. Raymond and Edna Schumpert opened the iconic eatery in 1959. The couple’s granddaughter Christina says their hard work and good…

Deputies: Bullet Lodged in Man’s Testicles After Wife Shoots Him

Photo courtesy of WFTV MELBOURNE, FL (WFTV) –Brevard County deputies arrested a 60-year-old woman on Wednesday accused of shooting her husband in their Melbourne home. Deputies said Victoria Reid knowingly shot her husband of 16 years during a domestic argument about an affair while in their home on Timacuan Drive. Reid told her husband she was going to maim him…