COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO) — The battle over roads is heating up in the SC Senate. Lawmakers are expected to begin debate Wednesday. Among the proposals to fix state roads is raising the gas tax by 12 cents a gallon over three years. Senators may have a long way to go this week to find more money for roads. They spent…
COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO) – As the South Carolina Republican primary draws near, Governor Nikki Haley told ABC Columbia that she is not ready to endorse any of the candidates. On Tuesday at a meeting to discuss the expansion of a program to help poor expectant mothers at the State House Haley said she is still making up her mind. Stay…
WHO: Richland County Government and Richland Penny Program Development Team WHAT: Host a public meeting to present the Pineview Road Widening Project FORMAT: Open house to include informational displays. Staff will present the project for review and receive comments from residents WHEN: Feb. 29, 5 – 6:30 p.m. WHERE: Bluff Road Park, 148 Carswell Dr. Columbia, SC 29209 COMMENTS: The…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – South Carolina senators say their extensive debate on road funding will start Wednesday. Senators were warned last week that would spend days on a roads bill. But they met for just over an hour Tuesday before adjourning. Senate President Pro Tem Hugh Leatherman instead said senators would meet two hours earlier Wednesday and may debate well…
Rich Wandover/Photo COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — More of South Carolina’s poor mothers-to-be will get parenting help at home through a $30 million public-private partnership that aims to reduce pre-term births and child hospitalizations. Gov. Nikki Haley is joining other state officials and private nonprofit leaders Tuesday to announce the state’s Pay for Success project that provides bonuses when evaluations show…
SUMMERVILLE, S.C. (AP) — A Summerville man has been arrested after police say he impersonated a police officer in Berkley County. Media outlets report that Zachery Sivils was arrested Monday after a Berkley County deputy saw him in an SUV with blue flashing lights behind another vehicle at a gas station parking lot. An incident report says the deputy approached…
(ABC News) — Justice Antonin Scalia’s Supreme Court chair and the bench directly in front of it have been draped with black wool crepe in memory of the late jurist, the court announced this morning. A black drape also hangs over the courtroom doors, in keeping with Supreme Court tradition that dates back to at least the death of Chief…
Raymond Quadir Eugene Jones, Jr. KERSHAW COUNTY, S.C. (WOLO) –Deputies say Possession of drugs and a gun landed a Camden man with a lengthy criminal history back behind bars on Friday. During a traffic stop on Feb 12., Kershaw County Sheriff’s Deputies say they found about 15 pounds of marijuana, 17 grams of crack cocaine and 12 grams of powdered cocaine inside…
(ABC News) — At a capacity campaign event in Riviera Beach, Florida, Bill Clinton played campaign surrogate again for his wife, Hillary Clinton, but this time he was in Donald Trump’s backyard, just next door to West Palm Beach. The former president was in his usual stump when a man in the crowd took off his shirt, revealing a concealed…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO)– Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush is making stops in Columbia ahead of Saturday’s First in the South Primary. Jeb Bush will tour FN Manufacturing Tuesday off Clemson road. Jeb will also attend a Columbia Town Hall before heading to Batesburg Leesville for a town hall there. Tuesday night Bush will attend the “Last Word in the South” candidate…
