Columbia News

Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott apologized publicly today to a man falsely accused by his deputies and local prosecutors in the 2006 Mother's Day slaying of the man's wife.

One of the world's premier authorities on autism and Asperger's Syndrome will be in Columbia on Monday for a Future Horizons Conference.

The South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum says it has seen a 24 percent increase in visitors from the last fiscal year.

It might be wild dogs or a deranged person, but someone or something apparently is killing and torturing pet cats in West Columbia.

COLUMBIA, S.C. - A small Christian college in South Carolina plans to double the size of its campus over the next few years and increase enrollment.

COLUMBIA, S.C. South Carolina prison officials have discovered a hole dug by inmates at a maximum security prison that might have been part of an escape plan.

Authorities say a teen has been shot in the parking lot of a Gastonia bank. Adrian Perkins, 18, died shortly after he was shot around 1:30 a.m. Saturday.

Normally you think about grilling out or playing ball when you think about summer activities, but for some we met Tuesday, it's about walking amongst the dead.

Three South Carolina gas stations and a supplier have agreed to donate $6,500 to the American Red Cross to settle price-gouging allegations related to last fall's Gulf Coast hurricanes, state Attorney General Henry McMaster is expected to announce today.

Columbia police says they have charged the former director of Campus Services at SC State University with assault and battery with intent to kill.

Patrick Tracy Burris. Burris, the serial killer who terrorized a South Carolina community by shooting five people to death before police killed him Monday, was paroled just two months ago, authorities said.A Video: Crime & courtsA A A A More video updated COLUMBIA, S.C. - The South Carolina serial killer who terrorized a small community was ...

Eleven people died on S.C. highways over the Fourth of July holiday weekend, according to preliminary numbers released Monday by the S.C. Department of Public Safety.

Columbia's 2008-09 general fund budget will have a deficit of approximately $9 million, the city's interim chief financial officer said Monday.

Columbia police are investigating an apparent single-traffic fatality collision in which an as-yet unidentified man in his 20s was found near a wrecked car early Sunday morning.

COLUMBIA a ' The South Carolina company that employed four workers who died following an explosion as they unloaded fireworks on North Carolina's Outer Banks had been cited for at least one previous accident.

The Columbia Fencers' Club is 25 years old and membership is nearing an all-time high with perhaps more newcomers than ever, says the Club's Co-founder and Head Coach, Dr.

Mmm ... models!: Valentino: The Last Emperor opens tonight at the Nickelodeon Theatre.

WLTX - An accident has taken the life of a man driving in Orangeburg County. It happened at 11:15 this morning about 6 miles east of the town of Orangeburg on US-178. The unidentified man was driving a 2003 Mitsubishi Ellipse Convertible heading west, when the car ran off the road on a left sided curve.

The operators of South Carolina's largest landfill have been fined $9,000 for failing to properly bury waste at its dump near Bishopville.

Wanda Charping and Jackie Breland signed a contract in November 2007 on what they thought was a small accounting project in South Carolina's largest city.