Columbia SC

PROSPERITY — Prosperity Police Chief Wesley Palmore has successfully graduated from the Excellence in Policing and Public Safety (EPPS) Program, from the Joseph F. Rice School of Law, University of South Carolina. The EPPS Program is an executive-level leadership program that focuses on contemporary issues in...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Finlay Park will introduce “Finlay Fridays” later this month. The park announced that every Friday, starting Feb. 20, it will host concerts through Oct. 30, 2026. The event is open to the public, and food and drinks will be available. The artists performing for...

RICHLAND COUNTY, S.C. (WOLO)– The Richland County Fire Marshals Office is investigating a second fire this month at a Midlands apartment complex. Officials say just before 6 on Wednesday morning, Feb. 11, 2026, they responded to Bent Tree Apartments on Bent Tree Road to a fire in the apartments’ leasing office...

Holly Scott, the oldest of 15 children, was born and raised in the rural town of Eastover, South Carolina. After graduating as valedictorian of Webber High School in the early 1950s, she enrolled in the Columbia Hospital School of Nursing, which was first established in September of 1935 at the corner of Laurens and...

NEWBERRY — An arrest has been made in connection to a shooting that left two people injured Friday night on Jefferson Street, the City of Newberry Police Department announced. Zah’Kee Yahmir Clark, 22, of Chapin, was taken into custody and booked into the Newberry County Detention Center. Officers...

Beware. Once you’ve parked your vehicle at this Midlands airport, it could be repossessed in minutes despite the absence of an active lien. It allegedly happened to Clive Campbell last December while he was traveling over the Christmas holiday from the Columbia Metropolitan Airport. His 2022 Nissan Pathfinder, which...

Country Herald is Local News, Independent Pulse. Covering breaking local news, sports, lifestyle and events. South Carolina drivers are navigating wet pavement and steady rain this February morning as showers sweep across Columbia. Temperatures hover near 63 degrees under thick overcast skies. A southwest breeze...

SOUTH CAROLINA — Authorities have arrested one person and are continuing to search for two others following a chase that ended in a crash near Interstate 85 on Wednesday. According to the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office, the incident began on Pine Circle in Pelzer when a homeowner reported seeing several people...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A Columbia man has been sentenced to eight years in prison after pleading guilty to domestic violence, child abuse and possession of an illegal shotgun, according to the Fifth Judicial Circuit Solicitor’s Office. Prosecutors said Robert James Norris Jr. pleaded guilty Feb. 5 to domestic...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WACH) — Temperatures have soared to the 70s this afternoon across South Carolina, making this the warmest day since January 10th. Tonight will remain unseasonably warm with forecast lows in the mid to upper 50s. This spring-like warm up won't be around too much longer since our...