In Brief: Oct. 9, 2013
By Amanda Coyne | Oct. 9, 2013The government shutdown is hurting Columbia’s craft beer industry, while it has inspired another man to tidy D.C. monuments while workers are furloughed.
The government shutdown is hurting Columbia’s craft beer industry, while it has inspired another man to tidy D.C. monuments while workers are furloughed.
Capitol shooting suspect shot and killed, South Carolina employees furloughed after government shutdown and repeat DUI offender sentenced to 17 years in prison.
A high school quarterback is facing drug charges, 11 juveniles pleaded guilty in the beating death of a Columbia man and the city’s next mayor will get a pay raise.
Police found no evidence that a woman was raped near the East Quadrangle in February and closed the case, but they decided not to send an update students, an official said.
Today’s In Brief features an overturned tractor-trailer full of pigs, a spike in small-town crime and an upcoming Charleston Battery renovation.
Five thousand people dressed as fairies, bananas and cows in white from head to toe were pelted with paint as they ran across Columbia early Saturday at the Color Me Rad 5k.
Included in this week’s Crime Blotter are a screaming woman and a man throwing mattresses into the street, neither of whom were found by police.
A sea of pink raced through Columbia this Sunday as Zeta Tau Alpha’s largest ever Pink Ribbon 5k kicked off this week’s “Think Pink” activities with a resonant bang.
This festival had everything: dogs in rainbow outfits, giant sea urchin-esque backpacks, drag queens and a camel. What sounds like something out of the mouth of Saturday Night Live’s Stefon actually took place in downtown Columbia on Saturday: the 24th annual SC Pride festival, South Carolina’s oldest and largest gay pride celebration.
A rainbow of colors decorated the streets on Saturday as Columbia hosted the annual SC Pride Festival and Parade.
PCBs found in Columbia-area sewers Carcinogenic chemicals have been found in a Columbia-area restaurant’s sewers, The State reported. The revelation comes out of a state investigation of illegal chemical dumping in the Midlands and the Upstate. Now, the concern is whether PCBs found their way into rivers from wastewater treatment plants or onto farmland and landfills from contaminated sludge. PCBs have recently been found in multiple Upstate wastewater treatment plants, which release into rivers.
After years of waiting, students will soon be able to use their CarolinaCards off campus, but not all local businesses are on board.
Columbia will be colorful in more than one way Saturday. Starting the day bright and early at 8 a.m. is the Color Me Rad 5K, in which runners are pelted with five different colors of powdered paint.
The Arnold School of Public Health sponsored the second annual Hispanic/Latino Community Forum at the Richland County Public Library Thursday evening.
Accused shooter out on bond during killing A man is accused of killing another man in a parking lot last week while out on bond on charges of attempted armed robbery and attempted murder, The State reported.
A woman told the Columbia Police Department she was grabbed by an unknown man on Pickens Street who told her to “come with him” around 10:30 a.m. By 5 p.m. Tuesday, police had arrested her on charges of making the story up.