With what will likely be a hotly contested presidential election bearing down, and in hopes avoiding issues seen at voting precincts during a calamitous June 9 primary, Richland County is on t…
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A site on the south side of Cayce will hold homes, apartments and retail development in a $65 million mixed-use project.
If all goes as planned, there will be a significant new addition to one of Columbia’s historic sites sometime next year.
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An 80-year-old housing project that made headlines after two men died there from carbon monoxide poisoning in 2019 is now being prepared for d…
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South Carolina's Capital City and surrounding counties are shifting a decades-long economic development strategy, with a plan to target, high-paying, fast-growing technology and software companies rather than chasing large manufacturing plants seen elsewhere in the state.
Richland County has opted to join Columbia in requiring masks when entering businesses.
Bakari Sellers is everywhere. Or at least it seems that way.
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Police said an "incendiary device" was left at the base of the Benjamin Tillman monument on the S.C. Statehouse grounds. It did not sustain any permanent damage and two were arrested.
It appears that Lexington County Blowfish baseball games — set to begin Wednesday night at Lexington County Baseball Stadium — could be in vio…
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South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson’s office has issued an opinion about the constitutionality of the Heritage Act, the 20-year-old la…
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The superintendent of a Midlands school district has tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
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Citing the recent spike in COVID-19 cases in South Carolina, the Columbia Fireflies minor league baseball team on Sunday announced the cancell…
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[Editor's note: This event has now been canceled due to COVID-19 concerns.]
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A new tenant is planning to set up shop in the historic Tapp's building on the 1600 block of Main Street.
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On June 23, Columbia City Council passed an emergency ordinance that mandates that citizens wear masks when entering commercial businesses in …
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Many business leaders welcomed Columbia's move requiring masks in commercial spaces, but questions on the rules linger.
Prosecutors will not charge Columbia Police Officer Kevin Davis, who fatally shot 17-year-old Joshua Ruffin. Davis spotted a gun in Ruffin's hand, prosecutors said.
A Columbia liquor store employee was arrested on assault and hate intimidation charges Wednesday after a Black Upstate town councilwoman complained that he tried to hit her and called her a racial slur during an argument over her giving leftover pizza to people outside the store.
After nearly a year as the interim director of the embattled Columbia Housing Authority, Ivory Mathews has been named the executive director a…
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A pair of Richland County Council incumbents were demonstrably defeated in Democratic runoff elections on June 23.
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Columbia environmental watchdog group Congaree Riverkeeper recently suspended, then fired, a key staff member. The firing came just days after…
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Columbia City Council on Tuesday passed an ordinance that will require citizens to wear masks at commercial businesses in the Capital City, in…
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A Columbia protest organizer is encouraging protesters to get tested for the coronavirus after several group leaders and protesters received positive tests.
House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn and Columbia Mayor Steve Benjamin participated in a Statehouse rally where AME faith leaders rolled out an ambitious reform plan they say will bring equality to all South Carolinians.
As the City of Columbia is considering requiring citizens to wear masks in public places amid the quickly spreading coronavirus pandemic, at l…
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Richland County has a new director for its embattled elections and voter registration office.
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A judge will consider whether to throw out a $1 million settlement Richland County paid after firing its former administrator.
Columbia City Council has approved a measure that formally prohibits officers at the Columbia Police Department from using chokeholds, except …
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Historic Columbia, the nonprofit dedicated to preserving the culture and heritage of Columbia and Richland County, is calling for the removal …
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So, how’s that “reopening” going, South Carolina? Weeks after many businesses, dine-in restaurants and other amenities in the Palmetto State w…
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Columbia City Council is considering an emergency ordinance in which it would require people to wear masks in public places in the Capital Cit…
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The University of South Carolina board is expected to ask lawmakers this week for permission to remove from a dorm the name of a doctor who performed medical experiments on slaves, responding to longstanding protests that have grown louder in the wake of recent nationwide racial justice protests.
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It might have taken a while for the tally to come in, but when it did, history was made in Richland County.
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Three people, including two wearing law enforcement ankle monitors, have been arrested in connection with a series of group break-ins on the first recent weekend of demonstrations in downtown Columbia.
South Carolina's only national park is set to reopen more areas that had previously been shuttered amid the novel coronavirus pandemic.
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The town of Irmo is planning a “workshop” on crime problems that have recently surfaced in some normally law-abiding neighborhoods.
Columbia's bus system will require riders to wear masks as cases of the novel coronavirus have surged in South Carolina.
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In a statement Wednesday, S.C. Election Commission spokesman Chris Whitmire bemoaned that in the state's second-most-populous county, which has been plagued by election mishaps for years, "yet again, voters were unnecessarily subjected to extreme wait times and confusion at polling places."
It was well into Wednesday morning before the unofficial final results were tallied in the Richland County election primary, which was marred …
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You can’t accuse U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn of holding back in his thoughts about Republican President Donald Trump. As reported by Jamie Lovegrove…
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As Free Times went to press Monday, protests in Columbia had been going for nine days, taking aim at police brutality and systemic racism in r…
A shortage of volunteers willing to work the polls in Richland County amid the coronavirus pandemic created a number of problems around the county as residents cast their ballots Tuesday morning.
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Three sneaker stores have relocated out of Columbia Place mall, highlighting its loss of retail options
Columbia's police chief says an officer's knee "unintentionally shifted" into an "incorrect position" in the midst of a May 30 arrest during p…
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COLUMBIA — About 150 protesters turned up at the S.C. Statehouse early Saturday afternoon for an eighth straight day of demonstrations calling…
Columbia Mayor Steve Benjamin released a pair of police body cam videos late Friday afternoon connected to the arrest of an African American m…
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