Three years old. They called him sumo as a nickname because he was a big child with a big smile. He was found in this swing may 22nd. Police arrived in the morning. Through their investigation they determined his mother Romechia Simms had brought him here more than 40 hours before then. They also believe the boy died sometime while she was pushing him in the swing. She kept pushing him for another ten hours or so. That was a very long and exhaustive investigation but as we said the states attorney said he did it right, he wanted to get it right. He got his indictment on friday. We just want to make sure that we had all the information we could gather. We went through it thoroughly and decided to present the evidence we had to the grand jury. Issued on friday. She was arrested saturday. Brad she is still being held on the 125,000 bond. If she is able to get out the judge says she is not allowed to have any unsupervised contact with children. When we come back at 5 00 to tell you more ab
With todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. I believe that im the better person to be the democratic nominee. We need bold changes. We need a political revolution. Iowa voters will caucus in just six days. The war of word between donald trump and ted cruz continues. I learn something new about myself from donald every day. The east coast struggling to recover from the blizzard. This is definitely the most ive ever seen. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is waiting for a response. You want me to go down there with a mop. A controversy over planned parenthood and videos. The people who made the videos are now facing years in prison. The manhunt for three extremely dangerous felons in california continues this morning. We feel that they may be embedded somewhere in the community. The residents of this california ordered to evacuate as this cliff keeps falling into the ocean. The wild attack after a guilty verdict. The defendant charged at the Deputy District Attorney in new mexico
Bentley is here today to unveil the nominees for the Country Music awards. We begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener. Your world in 90 seconds. You have a lousy record. 16 years and you havent picked a winner. Please, pick a winner this time. The candidates make their final pitch to iowa voters. If your doctor says you cannot leave your bed, you wont make it, it doesnt matter. Get up and caucus we cant be burned again. The stakes are too high. I hope you will go. I hoe you will stand up for me. I hoe you will fight for me sounds like you want to make a political revolution. A major winter storm has got its eyes set on iowa. Important to know how this will affect your caucuses. The bulk of that snow you start to see on midnight on tuesday. The World Health Organization is meeting in an emergency session today over ways to battle the growing zika virus outbreak. Declare the virus a Global Health emergency. Two Virginia Tech students are charged with the abduction girl. You j
3 the richland 3 Penny Tax Program just released its annual report and. In it. Details on where millions of tax dollars have gone since the program started. News 19s loren thomas explains what the county hopes to get done this year. 3 Richland County residents should be prepared to see more construction like here on greene street as the Penny Program plans to do even more work on roads in the county this year. We just finished the year so we thought it would be a good idea of whats been accomplished and give the citizens an idea of what they n see go to construction this year. Richland county transportation director rob perry says 31 Million Dollars went toward Construction Projects around the county last year. This year youre going to see more resurfacing, sidewalks, bikeways and our first real projects going into construction. According to the penny report. 127 Million Dollars in sales tax has been collected since the programs start in 2013. Were projecting another 110 million to con
Up, generally between an inch and two inches of rainfall overnight. Its gone, clouds are lingering over down town. Southwest winds at 13, this is as warm as it has been all day long. Dop into drop in the low 50s, at noon 49, and bit time the kids are coming home from school later today, its only going to be in the low to mid40s, sunshine, windy conditions, it will make it feel colder. Despite the warm weather right now. Be sure the kids have the jacket as they head off to school. We will detail the rest of the week and we will get a warmer week. See if theres lingering problems from the road, jen. Reporter it looks like we have cleared all the incidents starting, we had a couple of closed, that is now reopened, so you can get through the area. Theres video of what happened earlier. As can you see, they had it parkway, and both ways were shutdown between delta and tor rennes, and they torrance as we take a look at around, i did get report of an accident from the ramp to the donaldson, a