Sarah Ellis

Columbia police Saturday night arrested a suspect wanted in the rape on Friday of an elderly woman in a bathroom stall at a doctor’s office.

A former officer at the S.C. Department of Juvenile Justice faces up to 40 years in jail after being accused of “hog-tying” two juveniles as punishment for making noise.

As Columbia continues a nearly billion-dollar campaign to improve its water and sewer systems – and specifically works to improve water customer care and perception – a new assistant city manager has been named to oversee Columbia Water services.

One of the three suspects in a string of armed robberies and kidnappings in the student-heavy area near the University of South Carolina’s Williams-Brice Stadium said Friday he had “nothing to do with it.”

Losing Faith: Why South Carolina is abandoning its churches

In the midst of a pandemic that’s taken the hardest toll on African Americans, it’s “unconscionable” to take away an important pharmacy in a largely black community, leaders say.

One apartment will boast a 20-plus-foot-tall stained glass mosaic of Jesus Christ. (You sure won’t find that anywhere else in Columbia, that we know of.)

Once described as “a little man with a squeaky voice, dead eyes and a black heart,” Pee Wee Gaskins claimed to have killed dozens of people. But it was a homemade bomb in a prison cell that sealed his fate with the electric chair.

Ask anyone how the Gamecock fan base grew to be this way, and all fingers point to Coach Dawn Staley, the founder and the center of the “fam” culture.

It’s the second year in a row that the Midlands has boasted numerous restaurants getting James Beard attention, putting the region in the company of Charleston and Greenville, which are known for their robust culinary scenes.