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New Partnership Aims at Helping SC Seniors

South Carolinians have a new way to find out what services are available in their area.
ABC Columbia Staff

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO) — South Carolinians have a new way to find out what services are available in their area. Tuesday afternoon, Lt. Gov. Henry McMaster announced the launch of SC 211. The number can connect callers with support groups, community clinics, counselors, shelters, food pantries, programs for seniors, and other services. SC 211 is free and available in multiple…
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Watch: Riverfront Park Reopens Following Flood

ABC Columbia Staff

Columbia, S.C. (WOLO) — Community members are hitting the trail at Riverfront Park for the first time in months Two and a half miles of the walking trail between the Broad River and the Columbia Canal is open for the first time since October’s flood. Columbia Resident Jean Peeler says, “It was a real void in my life. This is…
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Watch: Governor Haley Signs Domestic Violence Bill

ABC Columbia Staff

Columbia , S.C. (WOLO)- On Tuesday, Governor Nikki Haley signed a bill that creates domestic violence fatality review committees in each of the 16 solicitor circuits in the Palmetto State. “This is pulling in forensics, this is pulling in law enforcement, this is pulling in prosecutors, this is pulling in everyone to figure out how did we go from start to…
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Ex-Guard Admits Smuggling Drugs into Federal Prison in SC

ABC Columbia Staff

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) _ A former guard has pleaded guilty to bringing drugs into a federal prison in South Carolina. U.S. Attorney Bill Nettles says Anthony Jermaine Creech of Blackville pleaded guilty Monday to providing marijuana to inmates at Estill Federal Correctional Institution. Estill is a medium-security prison. Nettles says while Creech was working as a guard there in January…
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President Obama Calls ‘Vicious’ 2016 Campaign a ‘Race to the Bottom’

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President Barack Obama speaks following a meeting with the National Security Council, Feb. 25, 2016, at the State Department in Washington. (ABC News) — President Obama used an annual St. Patrick’s Day lunch on Capitol Hill to take aim at what he called the “corrosive, vulgar” state of the 2016 campaign. “I know I’m not the only one in this…
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New Partnership Aims at Helping SC Seniors

South Carolinians have a new way to find out what services are available in their area.
ABC Columbia Staff

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO) — South Carolinians have a new way to find out what services are available in their area. Tuesday afternoon, Lt. Gov. Henry McMaster announced the launch of SC 2-1-1. The number can connect callers with support groups, community clinics, counselors, shelters, food pantries, programs for seniors, and other services. SC 2-1-1 is free and available in multiple…
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Haley Says She’s Likely to Sign Bill Restricting Abortion

ABC Columbia Staff

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Gov. Nikki Haley says she’ll almost certainly sign a bill banning abortion past 19 weeks in South Carolina. The Republican governor said Tuesday that she “can’t imagine any scenario in which I wouldn’t sign it.” The bill could soon be on her desk. The House is expected to vote Wednesday on a compromise the Senate passed…