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Columbia firefighters will be posted at various intersections today through Friday for the annual Muscular Dystrophy Association "Fill the Boot" Campaign.Click to Continue »

Two people were wounded early Wednesday morning after a shooting occurred near the Star Motel located near Two Notch Road, and Richland County sheriff’s deputies are searching for those responsible.Click to Continue »

Q: Can religions escape their histories of violence?Click to Continue »

The convicted former sheriff of Williamsburg County should be sentenced to less than the three years in prison recommended by federal officials because he succeeded despite a troubled upbringing and…Click to Continue »

A Port Royal man killed in a shooting Friday had testified in January against one of the three men accused of robbing him in a Burton mobile home park in…Click to Continue »

IT’S usually Democrats who think you can get something for nothing. You know, a chicken in every pot, a car in every garage. It was libertarian economist Milton Friedman who…Click to Continue »

A 28-year-old man who lives in Richland County who admitted stabbing his girlfriend to death in 2013, stuffing her body in a Rubbermaid bin and driving it to a McDonald’s…Click to Continue »

Residents in neighborhoods around the University of South Carolina say they are tired of battling large student “party houses.”Click to Continue »

Three men charged with murder in connection of the shooting of a 21-year-old woman nearly two years ago are serving various prison sentences, according to authorities.Click to Continue »

Lexington County Council members split Tuesday on a proposal to make it more difficult for public facilities to be named for anyone.Click to Continue »