Columbia SC

COLUMBIA, SC (WACH) — In a mental health emergency, families can find themselves racing against the clock — and, under current law, unable to intervene when their child is legally an adult. A bill advancing at the State House aims to change that by allowing parents to make...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The FBI Columbia Field Office is accepting applications for the upcoming annual Teen Academy this summer. The Teen Academy program allows rising junior and senior high school students to experience a comprehensive look into today’s FBI. Students will receive presentations on topics including...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Police in Columbia are investigating after a passenger bus was stolen from a local church. According to the Columbia Police Department, investigators are searching for the person or persons responsible for taking a 2016 GMC Savana belonging to Northminster Presbyterian Church. Authorities say the...

BAMBERG — On a wet March morning, some 30 people awaiting their day in court filed, along with their families, into a former National Guard armory-turned-civic hall on Bamberg’s main highway. They passed one by one through a metal detector and took a seat in a plastic folding...

LEXINGTON COUNTY, S.C. (WACH) — A Lexington man has pleaded guilty to gun charges, according to the Department of Justice. De’Marionne Zaquann Miller, 22, pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. He was...

RICHLAND COUNTY, S.C. — Deputies in Richland County are investigating after a bullet was found in a bedroom of a home off Trotter Road that left a hole in the ceiling, alarming the family whose young child sleeps in the affected room. Caroline and Jim Six said they discovered...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WRDW/WAGT) - South Carolina’s electric cooperatives have approved a new rate for data centers and other major power users, a policy leaders say is meant to protect everyday customers. The board of Central Electric Power Cooperative, the Columbia-based group that supplies wholesale power to 19 local...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - A new 80-unit affordable housing community near Forest Acres is now open, as Columbia works to address a growing demand for affordable housing across the city. Addison Pointe offers one- to three-bedroom units and targets working families whose income falls within 20 to 60 percent of...

A South Carolina woman wanted for allegedly participating in a phone scam in which the caller member to be a Lancaster County Sheriff’s Department member was arrested, Manheim Township Police said Monday. Veronica Anntonette Oliva, 36, of Columbia, South Carolina, was arrested in her home state and extradited to...

LAKE MURRAY, S.C. (WBTV) - Dozens of people reportedly felt an earthquake in central South Carolina early Thursday morning. The 2.1-magnitude earthquake struck around 2:30 a.m. on March 19, and had an epicenter near River Road close to Lake Murray, according to data from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). As...