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Good Morning Columbia anchor helps rescue accident victim

Monica Rivers is seeing who she calls her angel again, for the first time since her accident. That angel, is ABC Columbia News anchor Curtis Wilson. "He means the world to me. Had it not been for him at that time, the angel that god sent to me. I know we all have angels. God has ones assigned to us. And if it was just for that moment on that date, Curtis Wilson was the angel assigned to Monica Rivers," Rivers says.

New details on ambushed deputies at Carriage Oaks subdivision

At around 5:30 a.m. on Wednesday August 3, deputies with the Richland County Sheriff's Department were met with gunfire after they responded to what turned out to be a false 9-1-1 call at the Carriage Oaks subdivision in Northeast Columbia. Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott held a press conference today to share new details on last week's ambush.

Deputies ambushed in Northeast Columbia subdivision

Sheriff Leon Lott says deputies with Richland County Sheriff's Department were ambushed with gunfire at around 5:30 a.m. this morning at Carriage Oaks subdivision in Northeast Columbia. Deputies were called to the neighborhood over a possible domestic dispute. But when the deputies arrived to the home, the homeowners told deputies that they had no dispute and didn't call the police. As deputies left the home, more than fifteen shots were fired from an assault rifle in their direction--striking the deputies' vehicles.

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