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Stuff-a-Bus Sign Ups Take Place This Week

Stuff-a-Bus Sign Ups Take Place This Week

Columbia (WLTX) - The Stuff-a-Bus sign-ups have begun, and they're already drawing a large crowd.

Midlands Family Talks About Recent Ethiopian Adoptions

Midlands Family Talks About Recent Ethiopian Adoptions

Lexington (WLTX) - They speak a different language and were raised in another country, but a midlands family who just adopted two girls says their home is much more complete.

Taking the Fright out of Halloween Night

Taking the Fright out of Halloween Night

Richland County (WLTX) - Richland County deputies are out in full force this week, taking the fright out of Halloween night.

What's Been Lost and Found at the State Fair?

What's Been Lost and Found at the State Fair?

Columbia (WLTX) -- It's the place you forget about until you've forgotten something.  You might be surprised what you can discover at lost and found at the SC State Fair.

Essay Contest Offers $100 Prize to Young Consumers

Essay Contest Offers $100 Prize to Young Consumers

Columbia, SC (WLTX) -- Officials with the South Carolina Department of Consumer Affairs announced a contest for fifth and sixth-graders that asks them, "What would you do with $100?"

Hospital Tips Help Keep Your Kids Safe This Halloween

Hospital Tips Help Keep Your Kids Safe This Halloween

Columbia, SC (WLTX) -- Officials at Palmetto Health Children's Hospital have offered some easy ways to keep your kids safe this October 31st.

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Thousands of Flowers Laid For Loved Ones

Thousands of Flowers Laid For Loved Ones

Columbia (WLTX) - You ask, and here at News 19, we have an answer. It's a place you may have driven by time after time but have you ever noticed the abundance of flowers at Columbia's Greenlawn cemetery? One of our viewers asked how they get there, and the answer is simple. It's the people.

Blind Author Reads Book to Blind Readers

Blind Author Reads Book to Blind Readers

Columbia (WLTX) -- Carmella Broome is the first blind author to record her book for blind people in the Midlands, and some believe she is the first to do so in the United States.

Families Focus on Baby-to-be After Shock of In-Vitro Mix-Up

Families Focus on Baby-to-be After Shock of In-Vitro Mix-Up

Detroit (Detroit Free Press) -- The story of a metro Detroit woman's embryos mistakenly being used by a fertility clinic to impregnate an Ohio woman has gone national - and there's another odd coincidence.

Cancer Survivor Wins National Essay Contest

Cancer Survivor Wins National Essay Contest

Columbia (WLTX) -- Getting through the physical pain of chemotherapy and radiation is sometimes just half the battle.

Women's Task Force Meets in Richland County

Women's Task Force Meets in Richland County

Richland County, SC (WLTX) -- The Annual Women's Task Force Conference was held from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Seawell's Banquet and Reception Center on Rosewood Drive Friday.

Volunteers Remove 1,780 Pounds of Trash from River

Volunteers Remove 1,780 Pounds of Trash from River

Columbia (WLTX) -- Organizers of a cleanup effort of the Saluda River say 100 volunteers worked to clean the banks of the river Saturday as part of the annual Beach Sweep-River Sweep program.

SC State Campus Safety Addressed

SC State Campus Safety Addressed

Orangeburg (WLTX) -- As school starts back, so does crime on college campuses.  Today was the inauguration for a new campus initiative at SC State to improve the situation between police and pupils.

Spooked Horse Takes Family on Wild Carriage Ride

Spooked Horse Takes Family on Wild Carriage Ride

Salt Lake City, UT (AP) -- Talk about a wild ride.

Students, Educators Clean

Students, Educators Clean "Appalling" Watershed

Columbia, SC (WLTX) -- Thursday afternoon, when most teachers were going home, more than half-a-dozen volunteers from Heathwood Hall got together to help clean the Gills Creek Watershed.

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Toys "R" US Launches "Cash for Clunkers" for Baby Supplies

(USA Today) -- Add cash for cribs to the stack of programs modeled after the government's car swap program.

Law Dawgs Tear Up the Lexington Football Field

Law Dawgs Tear Up the Lexington Football Field

West Columbia (WLTX) -They're rough, tough law enforcers and they're 10 years old.

Midlands Principal Wins National Award

Midlands Principal Wins National Award

Columbia (WLTX) -- As the doors opened on another school year, Principal Barbara Cole has reason to celebrate.

Clyburn Discusses HIV/AIDS, Health Care at Town Hall

Clyburn Discusses HIV/AIDS, Health Care at Town Hall

Columbia (WLTX) - For the second night in a row, health care was a hot topic tonight in the Midlands.

Simply Delicious Recipe: Cucumber Soup

Simply Delicious Recipe: Cucumber Soup

Columbia-(WLTX)On a hot day, soup might not be your first choice. But if chilled, it can be a fine one. Columbia Chef and Restauranteur Kristian Niemi prepares Bulgarian Chilled Cucumber Soup and is sharing his recipe.

Heroes Need Heroes Too: Ronald McDonald House Needs Help

Heroes Need Heroes Too: Ronald McDonald House Needs Help

Columbia (WLTX) -- After serving the Columbia area since 1983, the Ronald McDonald house has had a lot of the same cooking utensils, and it's time for an upgrade.

Back to School Rush Continues

Back to School Rush Continues

Columbia, SC (WLTX) -- If you have been to any stores lately, you probably have noticed lots of last-minute back-to-school shopping.

Kids Team Up to Help Others at St. Jude's

Kids Team Up to Help Others at St. Jude's

Elgin (WLTX) -- It doesn't take a big person to have a big heart to donate to a good cause, and the children of Hudson's Kids Kastle in Elgin proved just that with a fundraiser to help benefit the patients of St. Jude's Children's Hospital.

New Center Gets to CORE of Learning

New Center Gets to CORE of Learning

Sumter (WLTX)-- It's learning with a twist, actually more than that. Throw in a climbing wall, trampoline, swing and brain bending excersises, all aimed to help kids reach their potential.

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