COLUMBIA, SC — St. Pat’s in Five Points announced its lineup Friday. Fans who have clamored for hip-hop on one of the festival’s main stages should be excited as the rap group Arrested Development, fronted by Speech, is one of this year’s headliners. Foxy Shazam, Chevelle, Eve To Adam, IAMDYNAMITE, Trent Jeffcoat, Josh Thompson and RBTS Win are other notable
Read more →Richland County deputies have announced the arrest of a suspect in a nightclub shooting that left a security guard dead. Officers have charged 22-year-old James Kevin Bethel Jr. with murder. Deputies say Bethel shot 25-year-old Gawayne A. Franklin at Mr. Lucky’s on Seminole Road early Sunday morning. Investigators believe the shooting arose out of an argument that began inside and
Read more →Richland County deputies are searching for a missing 15-year-old. Officers say Gabrielle Swainson disappeared between 3 a.m. and 7:30 am. on August 18th from her home. The girl’s mother said when she returned home from work at 7:30 AM Saturday morning her daughter was missing. Sheriff Leon Lott says they have no signs of foul play, but says the information
Read more →Twin sisters Zaakira Mitchell and Shaakira White have done everything together, including giving birth. Mitchell traveled from Rock Hill to accompany White to her doctor’s appointment at Palmetto Health Baptist. But she had no idea she and her sister would go into labor. “Around three, 3:30 she came back and said ‘I’m 5 centimeters dilated.’ So Dr. Ferguson was telling
Read more →Gamecock basketball players don’t have to go out of town to get a good summer game anymore. Sunday the new South Carolina Summer Pro-Am League tipped off in Columbia. Former players and current professionals Devan Downey, Carlos Powell and Zam Fredrick along with current Gamecocks Eric Smith, Carlton Geathers and others are participating. The 10-team league created by former Gamecock
Read more →A South Carolina Department of Corrections spokesman says a guard has been taken hostage at a maximum security prison in Bishopviille. Communications Director Clark Newsom said a nurse escorted by a guard was passing out medication in the Sumter unit of Lee Correctional Institute around 9 p.m. Tuesday when a group of inmates overpowered the guard. He didn’t know how
Read more →Apparently cops have nothing better to do …An innocent mother got arrested for cheering too loudly for her daughter at her graduation ceremony! Beach balls and bullhorns are commonly banned from graduation ceremonies, but some schools also want to silence the screaming — going so far as to have overzealous audience members arrested. That’s what reportedly happened to South Carolina
Read more →Kershaw County Sheriff Jim Matthews says a child abuse case recently investigated by his department is “horrific.” 24-year-old Catharine Ammons and 27-year-old James Watson of Lugoff were arrested by deputies after hospital officials at Kershaw Health notified law enforcement of possible child abuse. Over several months of abuse, Sheriff Matthews says hospital officials determined Ammons’ 4-year-old daughter suffered two broken
Read more →Crush Gentlemen’s Club, a River Drive business that was the location of a March 1 shooting, was the scene of a fire this morning that closed traffic on River Drive for much of the early commute. The Columbia-Richland County Fire Department received a fire call around 6 a.m., spokesman Brick Lewis said. Crews arrived to find flames and smoke coming
Read more →A Two Notch Road club has been warned by Columbia officials to stop allowing nude dancing by women. Fantasy Island, a non-descript storefront at 3134 Two Notch Road, on Friday was sent a notice that it was violating city zoning laws. Undercover city officials determined the club was operating as a sexually oriented business, which its zoning permit does not
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