Columbia News

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.

Kurt Eyring with Miller-Valentine Group in Columbia has been elected to the board of directors for the Associated Builders and Contractors of the Carolinas.

As the curtain falls on the BCS era, the college football championship picture is, as usual, a colossal mess.

Sunday's parade is expected to draw about 3,500 riders. They start at Carolina Honda with opening ceremonies at 10:00 a.m. and the public is invited to attend.

Celeb stylist Brad Goreski shows you how to pull off the latest trends on a budget by mixing vintage finds with items from your fave stores! With Christmas only days away, stores are filled with dazzling arrays of holiday fashions and accessories, ready for shoppers to finish their holiday shopping.

Fall in Columbia means - well, let's be frank: For most people, it means college football.