Changes slated to take effect for the General Educational Development test, or GED, are dramatic, according to educators. They say now may be the time to get your degree before the updated version is unveiled.

The attorney for state NAACP President Lonnie Randolph, Jr. wants someone else prosecuting his case.

When the murder of 33-year-old Midlands mother of four, Kelly Hunnewell, was gunned down during a late night robbery of a bakery earlier this month, it got the attention of columbia mayor steve benjamin in a unique way.

(WOLO) Columbia, SC-Representative Michele Bachmann is being investigated by The House Ethics Committee.

(WOLO) Columbia, SC-South Carolina has refused to rehear a Republican activist's arguments accusing Gov. Nikki Haley of breaking ethics laws.

State NAACP President Lonnie Randolph will have to wait a little longer to see if charges against him will be dismissed. This, after City of Columbia attorneys say they need more time to review evidence.

The biological mother of a girl at the center of a South Carolina adoption dispute has sued the federal government over a law governing the placement of Indian children.

A Columbia police officer is forced to draw his weapon and fire.

For the first time, we are seeing what really transpired during the arrest of State NAACP President, Dr. Lonnie Randolph. He is accused of refusing to pay for dry cleaning and becoming combative with police. His attorney wants all charges dropped. Also, Columbia Mayor Steve Benjamin sounds off on the trouble his police department constantly finds itself in.

A Midlands toddler is caught in the middle of a deadly shooting in Richland County.

Scam alert, the South Carolina Department of Consumer Affairs wants to warn you about some suspicious calls that are preying on the elderly and disabled.

South Carolina's highest court says it won't rehear a case involving a Charleston-area couple's attempts to adopt a girl of Cherokee heritage.

The trial of Marcus Bailey is in its second day. He is accused of killing Almanita Smith at her Northeast Columbia home last August. This case brings light to an ongoing problem in South Carolina - domestic violence.

RIDGEVILLE, S.C. (AP) _ Two people have died after an explosion in the garage of a home in Jasper County. Coroner Martin Sauls says 61-year-old Harry Drayton and 21-year-old Maurice Thomas were declared dead following the explosion about 6 p.m. Monday.

(WOLO) Columbia, SC-Police have made an arrest in the suspicious death of a Bishopville man.

(WOLO) Columbia, SC-A former South Carolina Treasurer says he plans to fight a recent d-u-i charge against him. Thomas Ravenel was arrested yesterday in New York after a traffic stop.

A Richland County murder trial is moving forward in court.

GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) _ A 36-year-old man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for killing his girlfriend and her mother in plea deal that prosecutors say was offered when an investigator in the case was arrested.

(WOLO) Columbia, SC-Lexington County Sheriff’s Department deputies arrested a 23-year-old man on Sunday, July 21 on charges that the man broke into two homes on R.B. Baker Drive near Chapin and one home on Crystal Creek Circle near Chapin.