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United Way hotline helps SC families with taxes

United Way hotline helps SC families with taxes

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Some families in South Carolina are getting help doing their taxes this year thanks to the United Way.
    
The organization has set up a hotline staffed by volunteers offering free tax assistance. The help is open to families statewide that make less than $50,000. People can dial 2-1-1 from any phone, 24 hours a day, and set up an appointment from now until April 15.
    
United Way's South Carolina call center has logged more than 10,000 calls for tax help so far this year. More than 6,800 appointments have been set up.

Don’t Let ID Thieves Access Your Data

Don’t Let ID Thieves Access Your Data

 

Walk for Sight with SC Lions Clubs on April 6

Walk for Sight with SC Lions Clubs on April 6

During the month of March, Lions from all across South Carolina have walked the main streets of their respective cities, towns and communities as part of the first annual “South Carolina Lions Walk for Sight” to increase public awareness of Lions’ humanitarian services in our state and around the world.  Highlighting their motto, “WE SERVE,” Lions focused public attention on their roles as servants of the less fortunate throughout the world and providers of a better quality of life to many residents of the Palmetto State.  

 

Security safeguard measure implemented to aid in the prevention of tax fraud

Security safeguard measure implemented to aid in the prevention of tax fraud

New for 2013, the SC Department of Revenue (DOR) has implemented a security safeguard measure to help prevent fraud-related individual income tax filings.

Statewide Tour Makes Stop at City Community Garden

Statewide Tour Makes Stop at City Community Garden

City of Columbia Parks and Recreation’s NOMA Community Garden will be soon be getting some special visitors.  The community garden will be in included in the inaugural statewide Midlands Farm Tour happening Saturday and Sunday, April 6-7, 2013 from 1-5 p.m. on both days.

 

Husband charged after wife dies with sores on body

Issac WIlson (Source: Sumter-Lee Regional Detention Center)

SUMTER COUNTY, SC (WIS)- A Sumter County man is under arrest after investigators say his neglect to care for his bed-ridden wife caused her death.

Deputies found 78-year-old Louise Wilson malnourished in what they described as "very unlivable conditions" in the couple's James Street home on March 15th.  Wilson died at the hospital a week later.

After her death, deputies charged Wilson's husband, 74-year-old Issac, with neglect of a vulnerable adult resulting in death.