COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO)–Officials in Richland School District Two want to start a conversation about diversity in the community. The office of Diversity and Multicultural Inclusion is hosting a series of Community Conversations now through the spring. Community members are invited to share their thoughts and ideas about diversity and inclusion in our schools. The first set of meetings will take…
COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO)– Columbia’s area leaders want to hear from you. City of Columbia Councilwoman Tameika Isaac Devine and Councilman Howard Duvall, Jr are set to host an open house this month. They’re asking for anyone interested to stop by and meet with them on Wednesday, March 9, 2016 from 5 – 8 p.m. The open house will be held…
Columbia , S.C. (WOLO) — Students at Ridgeview High School are advocating for teenage victims of domestic violence by trying to raise awareness about a bill that would give legal rights and protection to teenagers in abusive relationships. “Teens deserve protection and not abuse,” said student Lynnise Brown. Brown and several of her classmates in the scholars academy are aiming to…
Ben Carson on Friday announced his next move after effectively ending his presidential campaign: chairing a group focused on getting out the Christian vote in November.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO) — Between 2008 and 2011 an Allen University track coach is accused of preparing fraudulent tax returns for customers According to the District Attorney’s office Brandon Samuels, 31, prepared taxes for clients at Daitech Tax Service instructing them on how to claim bogus business expenses and other deductions on their tax returns in an effort to decrease…
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The great-great-grandson of a slave who commandeered a Confederate ship and took it to Union forces blockading the South Carolina coast is the new president and CEO of the planned $75 million International African American Museum in Charleston. Museum officials announced on Friday that Atlanta businessman Michael Boulware Moore, who has deep family roots in South…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — About 60,000 poor South Carolinians could lose their government food assistance this summer if they don’t meet work requirements. The state Department of Social Services says South Carolina’s exemption from work-for-food requirements ends April 1. Falling unemployment in South Carolina and other states triggered a rule change in the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. It applies…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO) — Authorities with the Columbia Police Department say that a man running from officers was taken the hopsital after crashing a stolen car into a tree on Caroline Road. The case ensue when the vehicle was spotted in a Walmart parking lot on Garners Ferry Road early Friday morning. According to CPD, the suspect struck a patrol…
Maribel Crespo COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO) — A former Richland County Sheriff’s deputy pleaded guilty to preparing fraudulent tax returns for other former officers. According to officials, 40-year-old Maribel Crespo admitted to illegally providing information of children to deputies tax returns, inflated the amount of money the filer would get on their return and then Crespo would split money with the child’s…
Police are looking for a suspect they say targeted a local pharmacy to steal electronic equipment.
