Allison Baker COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO) – In a statement Wednesday (12/6), City Manager Teresa Wilson confirmed that Assistant City Manager Allison Baker resigned Friday following an “inappropriate behavior” investigation. According to the statement an allegation regarding inappropriate behavior involving Baker was officially reported to Human Resources on November 29, and an internal review and investigation began immediately. It says in…
Rep. John Conyers WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Congressman John Conyers Jr. announced his retirement Tuesday. In an radio interview with Detroit radio host Mildred Gaddis, Conyers said his retirement is effectively immediately. The announcement comes after multiple woman accused Conyers of sexual misconduct on several occasions over his decades in office. The 88-year-old was head of the House Judiciary Committee…
Columbia, S.C. (WOLO)–South Carolina’s first African-American Supreme Court Chief Justice passed away Sunday according Clerk of Court Brenda Shealy. No other details surrounding Ernest Finney’s death were released. Finney served as an associate justice from 1985 to 1994 and chief justice from 1994 until his retirement in 2000. Columbia Mayor Steve Benjamin tweeting Monday Morning; Chief Justice Finney was a…
Embattled Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore is ahead in one new poll but tied with his Democratic rival in another recent survey. A new CBS News poll released Sunday found that “71 percent of Alabama Republicans say the allegations against Roy Moore are false,” according to a CBS News release. The survey of likely voters found that Moore, who has been accused…
In this image taken early Thursday, Nov. 30, 2017, Alex Bowen poses in the kitchen at a Waffle House in West Columbia, S.C. When Bowen found the only worker at the empty South Carolina Waffle House asleep, he took his meal into his own hands. Bowen chronicled with selfies how he made his own double Texas bacon cheese steak melt…
(WOLO) – New charges were filed in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 campaign. President Trump’s former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn was charged with lying to federal investigators. Categories: National News, News, Politics
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., told reporters Friday they have the votes to pass tax reform and will vote later this afternoon.
ABC News – Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, once a member of President Trump’s inner circle of advisers, has pleaded guilty in a deal with the Special Counsel investigating foreign meddling in the 2016 elections in which he admits to lying to the FBI about his back-channel conversations with the Russian ambassador. Flynn’s plea signals the former top adviser to…
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Rep. John Conyers, who is under fire for accusations of sexual harassment, is in the hospital, an aide to Conyers confirmed to CNN.
