Columbia News

Gov. Nikki Haley says the capital city's rejection of a strong mayor referendum that she publicly backed will not affect her fight to restructure South Carolina state government.

Nicole Rusinyak, outreach coordinator at the Columbia Animal Shelter, which euthanized nearly two-thirds of the animals it took in last year.

The juicy lamb chop is served with a dab of pesto and a mild piquillo pepper, chorizo and tomato sauce, as well as pickled and grilled white asparagus.

Eight years ago, Dave Chappelle, one of the best comedians of the past 30 years, walked away from his massively successful and wildly popular Comedy Central sketch show Chappelle's Show, skipping off to Africa to get as far away from show biz as possible.

Dash cam video just released shows a state trooper pulling over South Carolina star football player Jadeveon Clowney last Saturday night.

Tuesday Columbia City Council passed the first reading of an ordinance that would crack down on the sale of individual cigarettes.

The store will provide service to current members as well as guide potential customers through the shopping and enrollment process.

Cops nabbed a man Tuesday they say shot and killed the brother-in-law of Columbia, S.C., Mayor Steve Benjamin.

HHHunt Corp. -- the general partner of Auston Park at Columbia, owners of the 17-acre tract at the intersection with Fernandina Road -- was notified late Monday that the project is not moving forward.

State Rep. Andy Patrick of Hilton Head Island said Monday he is "exploring the idea" of a run for state superintendent of education.

COLUMBIA, SC Changes to Mega Millions in October promising bigger, faster growing jackpots have driven the top prize for Tuesday night to $344 MILLION .

South Carolina's prison population has dropped 2.8 percent this year, saving taxpayers $5.2 million.

South Carolina state troopers say they ticketed Gamecocks defensive end Jadeveon Clowney for going 110 miles an hour on Interstate 77 last Saturday.

A former South Carolina guard has agreed to plead guilty to a federal charge in a case connected to the jailhouse beating of a handcuffed homeless man, according to court documents.

Deputies on Friday arrested three men who are accused of defacing and vandalizing the interior of a mausoleum and a monument on a burial grounds at Bush River Memorial Gardens in late November.

Today the descendant of a Confederate soldier is searching the former prison site for any artifacts those prisoners left behind.

Charlotte Mecklenburg police are asking for the public's help in locating a suspect accused in the deadly Beatties Ford Road shooting Friday.

Under Brown's estate plan, his worldwide music empire was left to the "I Feel Good" Trust, an education charity for needy students in South Carolina and Georgia.

Darla Moore School of Business economists Douglas Woodward and Joseph Von Nessen are speaking Monday morning at the Capstone campus room on the Columbia campus.

Speakeasy Favorite Returns Originally established in 1856, Chicken Cock Whiskey was a speakeasy favorite during Prohibition.