Columbia, S.C. (WOLO)– South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson joining other states and businesses filing paperwork Friday to begin court proceedings against the federal government’s vaccine mandate for private employees with 100 or more employees. Attorney General Wilson releasing a statement Friday, saying, “Unlike the Biden administration, the judges with whom our petition has filed will consider the constitution. The…
(CNN) — “Do your holiday shopping now” that’s the advice that is being given by the owner of a truck company who says the trucker shortage in the United States will continue to not only raise prices but could worsen the supply chain slowdown. As Camila Bernal explains, despite efforts from the White House to fix the problem, many in…
COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO)– Voters in the City of Columbia will head to the polls for a runoff in the Mayoral Election. The runoff is set for November, 16 2021. ABC Columbia’s Miya Payton spoke with both candidates, Daniel Rickenmann and Tameika Isaac Devine, as they prepare for the runoff. Categories: Local News, Politics Tags: City of Columbia, runoff
COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO) – A former teacher has won a special election Tuesday night for the Richland One School board. Robert Lominack (Courtesy: Robert Lominack for Richland One School Board) Rober Lominack garnered more than 64% of the votes to win the open at-large seat. According to unofficial results from the Richland County Election Commission Tuesday night, Lominack got at…
Columbia, SC (WOLO) — State Attorney General Alan Wilson is joining a lawsuit to stop the federal funding of abortion. According to the Attorney General’s office, the lawsuit which was filed by Ohio’s Attorney General does not challenge the right to an abortion. Instead, it seeks to re-instate a 2019 law that requires federally funded family planning clinics to be…
COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO)– Tuesday, November 2 is election day in Columbia. Voting precincts for the City’s Municipal election will be at MLK Park, Main Street United Methodist, Hyatt Park Elementary, The Harbison Community Center and St. Andrews Middle school. Residents can also vote absentee in person at either the Richland or Lexington County Administration buildings until November 1, at 5pm….
COLUMBIA, SC (AP) — A South Carolina resident is indicted in the investigation into the January 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol. According to the US Attorney’s Office, George Tenney of Anderson is accused of pushing an employee of the House Sergeant at Arms and joining in the effort to force open the doors of the capitol to allow…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – A former South Carolina county councilman has been given the maximum sentence for lying about an indictment on child sex charges when he tried to buy a gun. News outlets report that federal district Judge Mary Geiger Lewis told Kerry Trent Kinard on Wednesday that if she could have given him more than 18 months, she…
(AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins) Columbia, S.C. (AP)–South Carolina’s oldest and most powerful state lawmaker is currently receiving hospice care after the discovery of what colleagues describe as an inoperable cancer. A GOP senator told The Associated Press on Thursday that Hugh Leatherman’s staff notified a handful of lawmakers the 90-year-old Florence Republican was recently hospitalized after experiencing severe abdominal pain. Leatherman…
PHOENIX (AP) – The Biden administration is threatening to revoke the authority for three Republican-controlled states to handle their own workplace safety regulations because they have refused to adopt rules to protect health care workers from COVID-19. The threats were sent to Arizona, South Carolina and Utah as the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration prepares to adopt much more…
