Columbia SC

RICHLAND COUNTY, S.C. (WACH) — The Richland County Sheriff’s Department announced Tuesday the arrest of a suspect in connection with a fatal shooting on Mellowood Drive earlier this month. Deputies identified Benjamin Hampton, 31, during the investigation as the shooter in the Sept. 21 killing. Warrants were...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina could feel significant impacts if Congress fails to reach a deal to avoid a federal government shutdown. A closure would send nonessential federal employees home without pay. According to the Library of Congress, South Carolina had more than 24,000 federal civilian workers last year....

COLUMBIA, S.C (WSPA) – There has been a massive push for over a decade in South Carolina to shut down contraband cell phone use inside the state’s prisons. The Department of Corrections said the contraband phones are fueling violent crime, drug trafficking, and even cartel connections from behind bars. This mission...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - A man is facing charges after allegedly opening fire at four Richland County deputies early Tuesday. Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said 23-year-old Renardo Tyson is facing several charges:. Four counts of attempted murder. Unlawful to taunt, torment, tease, beat, strike or administer...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - South Carolina Congressman Ralph Norman is calling for a state solicitor to be impeached over a Columbia murder case. In a statement Tuesday, Rep. Ralph Norman called for the South Carolina General Assembly to introduce articles of impeachment for Fifth Circuit Solicitor Byron Gipson. Norman,...

A South Carolina woman credited a store clerk's error with earning her a $303,000 prize from a South Carolina Education Lottery Palmetto Cash 5 drawing.

SOUTH CAROLINA — A Darlington County man has been arrested in connection with a carjacking that occurred Monday in Florence, police said. According to the Florence Police Department, 30-year-old Antoine Laurell Lawrence was charged with carjacking and aggravated breach of peace following the incident in the 500 block...

Ga., S.C. due for hundreds of millions more in Helene aid. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is sending hundreds of millions of dollars in federal assistance to Georgia and South Carolina for Hurricane Helene recovery. Updated: moments ago. An ex-South Carolina lawmaker formally pleaded guilty to multiple counts of...

Police pulled a Florida woman off a Bahamas-bound cruise ship after the Lexington County Sheriff’s Department took out six warrants for her arrest. The department got it wrong, she alleged in a recently filed lawsuit. Rebecca Rego, 25, who lives in Florida, had never been to South Carolina, her lawsuit said, when a...

A plan to allow cellphone jamming in state prisons can move forward, the Federal Communications Commission decided Tuesday. The three-person commission’s unanimous vote represented a major win for state officials who have long said jamming is the best way to deal with an inundation of contraband cellphones in the...