A cigarette for 75 cents, 2 for 1 dollar; the Brisk, shady sales

By 8:30 a.m., amid the procession of sleepy-eyed office workers and addicts from the nearby methadone clinic, Lonnie Loosie plants himself in the middle of the sidewalk on Eighth Avenue in Midtown. Addressing no one in particular, he calls out his one-size-fits-all greeting:...

Woman shoots self in head with Police Officer's Gun in South Carolina Hospital

Columbia, SC -  A very sad incident occurred last night in the Palmetto State.  A woman removed a gun from a Department of Corrections officer and shot herself in the head.  The police were at Palmetto Health Hospital in Columbia with an inmate who needed...

Jury Awards More than $1 Million in K-9 Attack

"The jury found that the officers violated his rights to unlawful search of his body, and also that the Sergeant and dog handler on the scene didn't correctly operate. "

Funeral Home Destroyed In Fire

" December 31, 2006 South Carolina - Columbia's J.P. Holley Funeral Home, whose owners describe it as the first black-owned funeral home in Richland County, was destroyed in one of five "suspicious" fires early Saturday, officials said. At 5:56 a.m., a fire broke out at the...

Text message leads to kidnapping suspect

"A man suspected of kidnapping a 14-year-old girl and keeping her in an underground bunker was arrested Sunday, surrendering without a fight along a highway after eluding police for months with an elaborate system of hideouts and tunnels. Investigators arrested Vinson Filyaw...