A teen missing from the Darlington area since 2009 and believed to be in Mexico has been located and returned to her family, according to investigators.
A new effort is underway to help combat overpopulation in animal shelters in the Midlands with the opening of Pawmetto Lifeline's new Spay/Neuter Clinic.
A woman pleaded guilty last week to helping dispose of her boyfriend's 2-year-old son's body in a trash can and then filling it with 450 pounds of concrete in 2010. Grace Trotman entered a guilty plea on charges of homicide by child abuse and desecration of human remains.
Leaders of the nation's largest Protestant denomination have endorsed an optional alternative name for the Southern Baptist Convention: Great Commission Baptists.
Less than a week after WIS aired a video showing an Elgin councilman and the former Kershaw County GOP co-chair discussing plans to "harass" officers there, Elgin council plans to vote on a resolution to support local law enforcement.
South Carolina banned video gaming a dozen years ago after a legal battle that went all the way to the state Supreme Court. But proponents of restrictive legislation advanced by a Senate Judiciary subcommittee Wednesday say that manufacturers of new gaming machines may have found a legal loophole.More >>
A Boiling Springs man says he made up a heroic tale that he told at a 9/11 ceremony last year in Spartanburg about his role as a New York City firefighter.More >>
Wednesday, February 22 2012 9:07 AM EST2012-02-22 14:07:41 GMT
Business leaders in Columbia voiced their displeasure over a new rule from City Council aimed at determining more precisely how much money those businesses were bringing in.More >>
Wednesday, February 22 2012 8:57 AM EST2012-02-22 13:57:38 GMT
On Jan. 26, James Sanders made his way out of jail, but documents released on Monday show detention workers made it easy for him. An internal investigation by the Berkeley County Sheriff's Office details the series of events that lead up to the escape.More >>
Tuesday, February 21 2012 11:56 PM EST2012-02-22 04:56:44 GMT
Nine people arrested in a prostitution sting in Orangeburg have officers from the Public Safety Department saying they've seen an increase in people selling sex in some areas.More >>
Tuesday, February 21 2012 6:14 PM EST2012-02-21 23:14:05 GMT
It's 2005, and Adam Turner is performing at the Springdale Elementary School Talent Show. He chose to sing a Tim McGraw song. It's "Live Like You Were Dying."More >>
Tuesday, February 21 2012 1:43 PM EST2012-02-21 18:43:25 GMT
The University of South Carolina and its mascot are celebrating a new set of wheels to help the school's statewide reading and literacy program.More >>
Tuesday, February 21 2012 1:30 PM EST2012-02-21 18:30:31 GMT
All eastbound lanes of Interstate 26 are back open after being shut down for several hours Tuesday morning while emergency crews cleaned up the mess left behind from a tractor trailer accident.More >>
Officers with the Lexington County Multi-Agency Narcotics Enforcement Team (NET) arrested four men and seized more than 150 grams of cocaine and crack cocaine with a street value of more than $15,000. More >>
Tuesday, February 21 2012 12:45 PM EST2012-02-21 17:45:10 GMT
Things are slowing down on a dangerous portion of Highway 6 after two children were killed in an accident last year and residents asked for change.More >>
Tuesday, February 21 2012 11:00 AM EST2012-02-21 16:00:33 GMT
Norway Mayor Jim Preacher's speeding case was set for trial Tuesday morning, but could now be months away after Preacher asked for a jury trial. Preacher got the ticket Jan. 18, after a Highway Patrol trooper clocked him running 70 in a 55 mile per hour zone.More >>
Tuesday, February 21 2012 10:18 AM EST2012-02-21 15:18:22 GMT
An Ohio middle school teacher has been charged with public intoxication and simple assault after two bouncers claimed she bit them while drunk early Sunday morning.More >>
Monday, February 20 2012 10:56 PM EST2012-02-21 03:56:39 GMT
Nearly 500 children are treated every year at Palmetto Health Children's Hospital for sickle cell disease. It's a painful disorder that typically affects African-Americans, but not many people know about. More >>
Monday, February 20 2012 10:41 PM EST2012-02-21 03:41:15 GMT
If you've been refilling your car with gas in the past few weeks, perhaps you've noticed the steady rise in price? Just in time for the spring and summer seasons, gas could hit $4 a gallon in just a few weeks.More >>
Monday, February 20 2012 5:51 PM EST2012-02-20 22:51:42 GMT
In the neighborhoods south of the Dorn Medical Center, golf clubs have become walking sticks thanks to a pair of fox attacks put folks in the area on high alert.More >>
Monday, February 20 2012 5:41 PM EST2012-02-20 22:41:04 GMT
Teen driving deaths are up 11 percent nationwide from January to June of 2011. From January to Feb. 20 of last year, four teens were killed while driving on roads.More >>
A Columbia man's birthday is Tuesday, and it's going to be a good one. Last week, he won $300,000 playing the South Carolina Education Lottery's Palmetto Cash 5 game.More >>
Monday, February 20 2012 11:14 AM EST2012-02-20 16:14:46 GMT
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley said her proposed budget for 2012-13 increases money for public schools, but a closer look shows her recommendations would actually decrease state funding by nearly $80 million.More >>
Monday, February 20 2012 8:13 AM EST2012-02-20 13:13:15 GMT
This week every third grader in the Richland One School District is getting a copy of "All Around Town," a children's book written by local children's author Dinah Johnson.More >>
Sunday, February 19 2012 4:29 PM EST2012-02-19 21:29:44 GMT
147 years have not eased the vehement hatred South Carolinians have for General William Tecumseh Sherman. After two days of artillery bombardment, General Sherman and thousands of Union soldiers crossed the Congaree and Broad Rivers on February 17th, 1865, and entered Columbia.More >>
About 1,500 family, friends and celebrities attended the star-studded funeral of Whitney Houston on Saturday. She was remembered for her grace, unrivaled voice and faith.More >>
About 1,500 family, friends and celebrities attended the star-studded funeral of Whitney Houston on Saturday. She was remembered for her grace, unrivaled voice and faith.More >>
Saturday, February 18 2012 7:07 PM EST2012-02-19 00:07:13 GMT
For 40 years Lela McGhee has called Dixonville home. The 61-year-old says she's seen her neighborhood change from a safe community where neighbors looked out for each other to a place known for something else.More >>
The spring tourism is getting under way in South Carolina. While the $14 billion industry is expecting a better year than 2011, those predictions are shadowed by the specter of an expected rise in gas prices to $4 a gallon.More >>
Friday, February 17 2012 6:28 PM EST2012-02-17 23:28:15 GMT
Instructors at the Richland County Sheriff's Department's shooting range had to be especially patient with a group of students Friday afternoon. They were members of Midlands news media. Most of them broadcasters, a group with notoriously short attention spans.More >>
Americans are getting an election-year tax present. Congress voted with rare speed and cooperation Friday to extend a Social Security payroll tax cut for 160 million workers and to renew unemployment benefits for millions...More >>
Friday, February 17 2012 6:20 PM EST2012-02-17 23:20:37 GMT
Playing a round of golf is tough to do if you depend on a wheelchair to get around. But Richland County is making it easier with a new specialized golf cart.More >>
Friday, February 17 2012 6:06 PM EST2012-02-17 23:06:43 GMT
It took 14 years and $24 million to make one building a reality. It's the transit center -- the first phase of the James Clyburn transportation center at SC State.More >>
Friday, February 17 2012 5:47 PM EST2012-02-17 22:47:36 GMT
A new wave of technology is coming to the Columbia Metropolitan Airport. New imaging machines will be used in the screening process starting next week.More >>
The South Carolina House is considering two bills that could change the way South Carolina citizens get information from police and their local and state governments.More >>
Friday, February 17 2012 3:57 PM EST2012-02-17 20:57:05 GMT
11,000 people live in Irmo. But not all of them have homes. Right now in Richland-Lexington School District 5, every single school has students who are homeless.More >>
Friday, February 17 2012 2:33 PM EST2012-02-17 19:33:17 GMT
Investigators say a bullet fired by Frederick Wither's tore a hole in the jeans of one of the deputies, but did not touch his skin.
A drug suspect who Richland County sheriff's deputies say shot at them during the execution of a search warrant has been charged with attempted murder and possession with intent to distribute marijuana.More >>
Friday, February 17 2012 9:45 AM EST2012-02-17 14:45:49 GMT
The Richland County Sheriff's Department says they arrested a North Charleston man Tuesday on charges that he sexually assaulted two women in the 1980s.More >>
Thursday, February 16 2012 10:37 PM EST2012-02-17 03:37:04 GMT
Six months after staying tight lipped about who they were investigating as a person of interest in the disappearance of Brittanee Drexel, investigators in Myrtle Beach are releasing names.More >>
Thursday, February 16 2012 6:12 PM EST2012-02-16 23:12:21 GMT
For nearly 4 1/2 hours Thursday, South Carolina State University's Board of Trustees met behind closed doors talking to Reggie Lloyd, their brand new attorney.More >>
Two Midlands women are charged with scamming college students by taking money from them to sublease the apartments they had advertised on Craigslist, but never assuming the lease.More >>
The South Carolina State Board of Trustees has been in "executive session" since early Thursday morning. University President Dr. George Cooper has admitted the school is currently under some sort of investigation, according to WIS News 10's Jody Barr.More >>
Thursday, February 16 2012 1:39 PM EST2012-02-16 18:39:11 GMT
Thursday morning a bond hearing was held for the man accused of shooting and killing Aiken Pubic Department of Public Safety Officer Scotty Richardson.More >>
A shots fired call in Cope led Orangeburg County sheriff's officers to locate narcotics, four handguns and an AK-47, according to Sheriff Leroy Ravenell.More >>
Thursday, February 16 2012 10:08 AM EST2012-02-16 15:08:21 GMT
On a 911 call released Wednesday, a friend of David Hedrick tells emergency dispatchers that David Hedrick had just fatally shot himself after a recent breakup with his girlfriend, 30-year-old Dara Watson, who police are currently searching for.More >>
Thursday, February 16 2012 9:47 AM EST2012-02-16 14:47:52 GMT
A WIS Investigation took a look into the backgrounds of interim South Carolina State University police chief and the department's commander, which found both men had run ins with law enforcement in their past.More >>
It will take more than $1 MILLION to get an Orangeburg man to hang up his hat. "I've been working since I was 16," said the South Carolina Education Lottery's latest millionaire. "I'm not quitting now," he added.More >>
Wednesday, February 15 2012 10:44 PM EST2012-02-16 03:44:09 GMT
An online video posted over the weekend details a plot to "harass" Kershaw County deputies over one group's anger about what it calls, "the police state of South Carolina." Elgin town councilman Larry Risvold and Kershaw County Patriots leader Jeff Mattox spoke to a group in Cayce about their plans last Saturday.More >>
The South Carolina Senate is close to wrapping up work on a bill that would eliminate the agency that handles much of the state's bureaucracy and put much of its duties under the governor's control.More >>
Wednesday, February 15 2012 6:53 PM EST2012-02-15 23:53:32 GMT
Miles above Crayton Middle School the International Space Station brought a kind of interstellar Skype session to a captivated audience. Crayton is one of three schools from across the country selected to spend 20 minutes talking with astronauts on the International Space Station.More >>
The South Carolina Court of Appeals has overturned the conviction and five-year prison sentence of a Dillon County man whose dogs attacked and killed a 10-year-old boy.More >>
South Carolina Treasurer Curtis Loftis will continue to sit on a commission that oversees the $26 billion investment fund for public workers' pensions after senators voted against removing him.More >>
Wednesday, February 15 2012 5:19 PM EST2012-02-15 22:19:01 GMT
Running is thought to be an easy exercise to get into. After all, there's no equipment, you can do it anywhere and you can do it by yourself or with friends.More >>
Wednesday, February 15 2012 4:47 PM EST2012-02-15 21:47:04 GMT
Several shots were fired at a Barnwell County Sheriff's deputy while he searched a neighborhood for a home invasion suspect early Wednesday morning.More >>
Wednesday, February 15 2012 3:52 PM EST2012-02-15 20:52:20 GMT
Surveillance cameras left in place after Columbia's New Year's Eve celebration captured a bizarre scene on February 3 -- a seemingly drunk man swinging a large chain and threatening pedestrians in broad daylight on Main St.More >>
Wednesday, February 15 2012 2:40 PM EST2012-02-15 19:40:41 GMT
Reports that Iran had shut off oil supplies to Europe and will ramp up uranium production is putting pressure on already tense relations between the country and the U.S. and Israel.More >>
Wednesday, February 15 2012 2:32 PM EST2012-02-15 19:32:16 GMT
The Department of Motor Vehicles is back open and Shop Rd. traffic is moving again after being closed for a couple of hours Wednesday morning while authorities investigated a bomb threat.More >>
Celebrate Presidents' Day with a visit to Riverbanks Zoo and Garden and be among the first to see the Zoo's newest resident—a female bald eagle.More >>
If you purchased a Palmetto Cash 5 ticket from Mini Mart Express LLC at 7869 Fairfield Road in Columbia for Tuesday's drawing, you might be $300,000 richer today.More >>
Wednesday, February 15 2012 11:46 AM EST2012-02-15 16:46:43 GMT
Police say one of the first clues the Nike shoes might be fake was the logo of Michael Jordan. The former NBA star had too many fingers, an officer wrote in his report.More >>
Wednesday, February 15 2012 10:36 AM EST2012-02-15 15:36:49 GMT
Sixteen people were arrested after deputies say they broke into a power-production plant near Asheville and several of them climbed on the 400-foot smoke stack.More >>
Wednesday, February 15 2012 8:51 AM EST2012-02-15 13:51:24 GMT
As I eat, sleep, and pray side-by-side with the homeless, I miss my family, my home, work, and life as I've always known it. That feeling is a luxury out on the streets. Most of the men I meet along the way want very little to do with their past. In many ways, their past is what pushed them to the streets. More >>
Tuesday, February 14 2012 10:41 PM EST2012-02-15 03:41:44 GMT
Imagine taking the time-honored tradition of the blind date and combining it with a little bit of manic speed. You get, of course, speed dating.More >>
Tuesday, February 14 2012 6:21 PM EST2012-02-14 23:21:16 GMT
It's Valentine's Day. And while it might be easy to get your significant other a dozen roses, a greeting card, or a box of chocolates, all the hip and cool people are still sending out singing telegrams.More >>
Tuesday, February 14 2012 5:45 PM EST2012-02-14 22:45:39 GMT
When pit bulls began disappearing from the Columbia Animal Shelter late last month, you won't believe where they ended up: chained to trees in a crude stockade off Zorn Street near the Bamberg County town of Denmark.More >>
Tuesday, February 14 2012 4:54 PM EST2012-02-14 21:54:21 GMT
The North Carolina man who became an instant celebrity after posting a video on YouTube shooting up his 15-year-old daughter's laptop, got a visit from the police department and child protective services last week.More >>
Syrian gunners pounded an opposition stronghold where the last dispatches from a veteran American-born war correspondent chronicled the suffering of civilians caught in the relentless shelling. An intense morning barrage...