Academy Sports and Outdoors is gifting thousands of dollars in new workout equipment to Alcorn Middle School, including weight benches, dumb bells and jump ropes.
The mayor of South Carolina’s capital city is considering issuing a school mask mandate, a move he says would protect vaccine-ineligible children amid the coronavirus’s resurgence. The effort would put Columbia Mayor Steve Benjamin, a Democrat, at odds with Republican Gov. Henry McMaster as well as the GOP-controlled Legislature, which recently barred such policies for all public schools.
This morning, Historic Columbia took the first steps in creating their new state of the art greenhouse and gatehouse. A ceremony was held to break ground on the $2.5 million project at the Hampton-Preston Mansion and Gardens.
The University of South Carolina is reversing its decision last week to require masks inside campus buildings. This comes after South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson wrote a legal opinion saying the university could not legally require mask wearing on campus.
Today, clients of Transitions Homeless Center were on hand when their artwork was put on display just outside the food court at Columbia Metropolitan Airport.
The Richland County Sheriff's Department says an employee a restaurant in Chapin is accused of touching a child inappropriately in the restaurant's bathroom.
The Richland County Coroner's Office released the name of a man who died after being hit by a motorcycle near the intersection of Two Notch Road and Trenholm Road.
City Councilwoman Tameika Isaac Devine will officially file in Columbia's mayoral race today. She is expected to file at Columbia City Hall at 4:30 p.m.