COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO)– Advocates for the care and welfare of South Carolina’s children gathered at the State House Tuesday for Child Advocacy Day. Attorney General Alan Wilson, along with other local leaders want to put the focus on child abuse prevention, including awareness and prosecution of offenders. The goal of the Children’s Advocacy center is to bring the system together,…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO) – One of the State’s top Republicans announced she is running for Governor in 2018. Catherine Templeton made the announcement Tuesday afternoon. Templeton has run the State’s Labor Department and the Department of Health. In a release, Templeton says “I have never run for office, and I won’t run for the next one, but I can’t unsee…
Gov. Henry McMaster says he will veto bills that would increase the state’s gas tax and borrow money for a backlog of repairs at state-owned buildings.
The death toll from an explosion that tore through a train in Russia’s second largest city has grown.
COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO)– Longtime Republican Senator John Courson is free on bond after attending a court hearing Wednesday in Richland County. Courson appeared before a judge on ethics charges, charges he denies. Courson was given a $16 Thousand Dollar personal recognizance bond. A grand jury indicted Courson on misconduct in office charges earlier this month. Categories: Local News, Politics,…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO)- The 2017 road bill’s path to the Senate floor will continue to wait as senators voted 23 to 18 against a special order that would have prioritized the legislation. Some senators who voted no say their vote does not mean they do not want road funding. “We are not going to support a straight up tax increase,”…
Shots were fired this morning near the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.
A bill borrowing $498 million for a backlog of repairs at South Carolina’s public colleges and other state-owned facilities is heading to the House floor.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – Gov. Henry McMaster has named a former business and banking executive to lead South Carolina’s economic advisory board. Edward Grimball of Edisto Island is the next chairman of the Board of Economic Advisors, which reviews and approves revenue projections that lawmakers use to write the state budget. McMaster said Tuesday he’s confident the board under Grimball…
A ban on all nuclear weapons not getting full support from Unites States and more than a dozen other countries.
