(WOLO) Columbia, SC-Columbia Mayor Steve Benjamin today announced the creation of the Mayor’s Panel on Violent Crime and Bond Reform to improve upon and recommend new tools for law enforcement to keep career criminals in jail and off the street once they’re arrested.
An armed robbery at a Richland County convenience store ultimately leads to a shootout with deputies.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Strong storms rumbling through South Carolina's capital city led to a busy night for local firefighters.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The interim Columbia police chief says he believes a medical condition caused the problems that led to the arrest of the president of the South Carolina chapter of the NAACP and he thinks a judge will dismiss the charges.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina's highest court has ruled that an Indian child who's at the center of a custody suit that went to the U.S. Supreme Court should be returned to the Charleston-area couple seeking to adopt her.
The president of the South Carolina NAACP, Lonnie Randolph, Jr. is fighting trespassing, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest charges stemming from an altercation outside a five points business.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Air Force warplanes grounded by Pentagon budget cuts are back in the skies over the Southeast.
(WOLO) Columbia, SC-Interim Columbia Police Chief Ruben Santiago encourages the public to call CRIMESTOPPERS with information regarding an indecent exposure incident.
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) _ A federal agency estimates it will cost $150,000 a year to administer the Endangered Species Act along hundreds of miles of the Southeast coast designated as critical habitat for loggerhead sea turtles.
A lawyer representing Columbia Interim Police Chief Ruben Santiago, filed a civil lawsuit late this afternoon, claiming former Columbia Police Captain Dave Navarro has committed slander, defamation and has intentionally inflicted emotional distress upon his client.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina nursing home operator has pleaded guilty to defrauding $1 million from South Carolina's Medicaid program.
The attorney for state NAACP President Lonnie Randolph says what was interpreted as a crime last Friday were actually symptoms of diabetes.
ORANGEBURG, S.C. (AP) — An Orangeburg man has been sentenced to 38 years in prison after pleading guilty in the 2012 shooting death of a 31-year-old woman.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina's highest court says public bodies cannot use the Freedom of Information Act to justify decisions not to release records or hold open meetings.
BATESBURG-LEESVILLE, S.C. (AP) — Two people have been killed in a wreck on US 178 in Batesburg-Leesville.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The Associated Press South Carolina daybook for Wednesday, July 17
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a former elementary school teacher in Anderson County has pleaded guilty to child pornography charges.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The State Law Enforcement Division has started an investigation into the Columbia Police Department after the interim police chief and a fired captain each accused the other of illegal behavior.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley has agreed to pay a $3,500 fine for not properly identifying donors to her 2010 campaign.
Mayor Steve Benjamin is forming a panel who will take a closer look at current police policies and procedures to make sure career criminals do not fall through the cracks.
