Columbia News

Historic Columbia will hold it monthly Homeschool Friday program on May 2. Homeschool Friday is open to all homeschool students.

Everything is 50% off at Goodwill on Monday, April 21. One of the best fishing holes in Columbia just keeps getting better, and local thrift shoppers wait anxiously for these special half price sales.

Save up to 50% off at Roundabouts Consignments Spring Fling on Saturday, May 3. This is the event many Columbia thrifty shoppers have been waiting for to complete their spring and summer wardrobes at a fraction of regular consignment prices.

COLUMBIA, S.C. There is almost 40 million Americans over the age of 65. Five years from now, that number is going to double.

A photograph taken of battle on Gold Beach fought along side British troops. John Cummer, a WWII veteran who was a gunner on a landing craft during D-Day.

They buried it on the internet, but The State newspaper did at least see fit to put the story front and center in its Sunday Metro print editions over the Easter weekend.

And for good reason, since I was such a student, years before Menkoi, Columbia's first and only authentic ramen house, opened downtown.

Of Montreal played at the Columbia Museum of Art on April 17 as part of the Indie Grits festival.

Heathcliffe the koala poses for the camera in his enclosure at the Riverbanks Zoo and Gardens in Columbia, S.C. PHIL RABY/Special to QMI Agency Clipped to a steel cable and suspended 12 metres above the ground, I was about to find out why South Carolina's award-winning zoo is called Riverbanks.

When it was announced that Pope John Paul II would be coming to Columbia, South Carolina, in September, 1987, 10-year-old Jennie Elizabeth Clark was as anxious as anyone to see the Holy Father, never foreseeing a handshake or a personal blessing.

Those looking for clothes, shoes and purses will want to stop by a yard sale at 108 Quail Field Rd .

Lexington County Sheriff's Department deputies on Thursday, April 17 said they arrested the two men after deputies saw them performing "illicit sexual acts' at a public boat landing on the Saluda River at 9 Radio Lane near Irmo.

Officials with the VA Medical Center in downtown Charleston say a North Charleston man who was initially federally charged with a $525 fine for an $.89 drink refill will instead be given a warning.

A child playing with a cigarette lighter caused a Friday morning house fire in Columbia, according to the Columbia Fire Department.

Moke McGowan announced plans Thursday to retire in September from his post as president of the Long Island Convention & Visitors Bureau, a job he's held for 10 years.

The proposal from Rep. Harold Mitchell would have allowed deadly force in those scenarios.

West Columbia, SC West Columbia police have arrested a man who broke into a woman's home and attempted to sexually assault her.

With temperatures expected to drop into the mid 30's Wednesday night, certain crops may be at risk, especially strawberries.

University of South Carolina police are investigating after someone spray-painted the field of Williams-Brice Stadium with a Clemson Tiger logo.

And for good reason, since I was such a student, years before Menkoi, Columbia's first and only authentic ramen house, opened downtown.