Richland County

Rick Chow made national headlines in 2023 after he was accused of killing a 14-year-old he thought was shoplifting from his store.

Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott is calling for a Forest Acres bar to close after an officer-involved shooting there left one person dead on Mother’s Day.

Employment numbers are on the rise in some of the largest counties as South Carolina is named the fastest growing state in the nation.

Dr. Ronald McNair, born in Lake City and the second African American man in space, was honored with the title of "Palmetto Pioneer" Wednesday afternoon.

Statewide, 75.2% of students surveyed agreed or strongly agreed that "adults at my school prevent bullying from happening." Despite the relatively high percentage, 67.5% of students in Chester County were confident in school staff bully suppression. And 68.5% of students in Richland Two agreed with the prompt.

Food banks, which are not state-funded resources, largely rely on philanthropy and their own wallets. The banks were calling on South Carolinians and their good will to help feed people beyond the fund drive. And the generosity will need to trickle down to food pantries and restaurants.

Richland County became the first South Carolina county to pass a hate crime law.

Federal investigators found in a scathing report this week that a large jail in South Carolina vastly underreports the violence occurring behind its walls and lets dozens of inmates go unsupervised for so long that at least two killings of prisoners were reported to jail staff from outside callers.

U.S. Congressman Jim Clyburn joined South Carolina and city of Columbia leaders on Jan. 10, 2025, to formally announce a $204.2 million federal grant to help cover the Assembly Street railway project.

“I’ve said it over and over this past year. Juveniles with guns is going to get you one of two places — the cemetery or in jail," Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said Friday, Jan. 3, 2025.