Orangeburg, S.C. (WOLO) – The Orangeburg County Sheriff’s Office is asking the public for information that may lead to locating a missing teen. Family members of 14 year-old, Jamella Houser, reported her as having gone missing on Sunday. Houser is known to frequent areas such as, the St. Paul Apartments area, Seminole Street in Orangeburg, and also the Mett’s Trailer Park…
RICHLAND COUNTY, SC (WOLO) – Richland County deputies have arrested a suspect in a recent shooting that was caught on camera. Investigators say Jonte White, 35, was arrested Monday (3/5) at the Days Inn on Bush River Road. He is charged with attempted murder. According to deputies, on February 11 White shot a person multiple times at the BP on…
Quinton Jackson and Michael Shannon Sumter, S.C. (WOLO) – Texting the wrong number is bad. Texting a deputy when you think you are texting your drug customer is even worse. On Thursday (3/1), A Sumter County Sheriff’s Deputy received a text from someone asking to sell a quantity of marijuana. An agreement was made that the unknown texter would meet…
Columbia, S.C. (WOLO) – Marion C. Wilkes, 76, has been convicted of murder by a Lexington County jury following a week long trial. Wilkes was sentenced to 45 years for the stabbing and beating death of his wife, Susan Reynolds Wilkes, on June 11, 2014. Wilkes is not eligible for parole. The couple had been married for 34 years and…
SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) – A pastor of a church day care in South Carolina says a teacher found a loaded gun in a student’s lunch bag and safely confiscated it. Lake Bowen Baptist Pastor Brad Atkins to the Herald-Journal of Spartanburg it appears the child’s mother put the gun in a zippered outer pouch but forgot to remove it when…
(Photo: @countyoflex) Lexington, S.C. (WOLO) – Lexington County first responders were dispatched to an incident in the 200 block of Minnie Fallaw Rd. in Pelion. Severe weather and damaging winds caused damage to a mobile home. The roof of the structure was blown away. Two people were in the home at the time of the…
Sumter, S.C. (WOLO) – Sumter School District officials are optimistic that power will be restored to High Hills Elementary School late this evening. The school was closed Thursday (3/1) due to a power outage. High Hills plans to reopen on Friday, March 2. If that changes, the school will make an announcement by 5:30 AM. Stay with ABC Columbia for more updates. Categories:…
Columbia, S.C. (WOLO) – United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Benjamin Thomas Samuel McDowell, age 30, of Conway, South Carolina, pled guilty in federal court in Florence, South Carolina. McDowell pled guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. FBI officials say they became aware of McDowell’s escalating white supremacist views on social media. McDowell…
(WOLO) – Fed-Ex is not cutting its ties with the National Rifle Association. Gun control advocates have called for companies to stop doing business with the NRA, however Fed-Ex issued a statement saying it “has never set or changed rates for any of our millions of customers around the world in response to their politics, beliefs or positions on issues.”…
COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO) – As part of Read Across America week, ABC Columbia’s Josh Berry visited Harbison West Elementary Wednesday (2/28). Fun time hanging out with Harbison West fifth graders this morning! #ReadAcrossAmerica pic.twitter.com/3prFHnxTaY — Josh Berry (@_joshberry) February 28, 2018 Josh visited Ms. Parnell’s 1st grade and Ms. Murray and Ms. Washington’s 5th grade classes reading several books including…
