It was almost one year ago, on October 28th, when seven college students from South Carolina died in a North Carolina beach house fire. Now, friends and family members are remembering the victims, with new events to raise money for scholarships, in their honor. The first Carolina Remembrance Concert was Thursday night, in Columbia. It was to include a slide show to remember the six USC students, and one Clemson student, who died in the Ocean Isle beach fire, last year. WJBF News Channel 6’s Capitol reporter, Robert Kittle, has an exclusive interview with one of the survivors of that fire, about the last year for him, and what he wants everyone to know about the victims.

Federal aviation officials say tires on the doomed jet that crashed last month in South Carolina, killing four and injuring two others, shredded as the plane ran out of runway. The National Transportation Safety Board also said Wednesday that adhesive used on reflectors used to mark the runway in Columbia was found near debris from the tires of the Learjet that crashed on takeoff just before midnight Sept. 19.

An attraction worker at the South Carolina State Fair was killed on the final day of the event when he was struck by the ride. The State newspaper reported that Jeff Doucleff was killed Sunday afternoon when the Inverter hit him.

State lawmakers are still working on a plan to cut the state budget by more than $500 million, but one state agency has already taken steps in hopes of avoiding laying off employees. Department of Consumer Affairs employees agreed unanimously at a staff meeting Thursday to take a ten percent pay cut to save money.

Legislators will be back at their desks in Columbia to deal with plans to cut $488 million from the state’s $7 billion budget.

A federal report says a jet that crashed last month in South Carolina, killing four people and injuring two others, was on fire as it shot across a road at the end of a runway.

The 139th South Carolina State Fair is opening a 12-day run in Columbia Wednesday afternoon, with plenty of exhibits, rides and food. The fair runs through October 19th.

South Carolina voters have a clear choice when they go to the polls next month to elect a U.S. senator. Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham is running for reelection to the seat he won for the first time in 2002, after Strom Thurmond’s retirement. He’s being challenged by Democrat Bob Conley, a pilot and engineer. When it comes to the issues that South Carolina voters say are the most important to them, the two men are on opposite sides.

The vice presidential candidates are getting ready for what could be the most-watched vice presidential debate in history. The 1984 debate between then-vice president George H.W. Bush and Rep. Geraldine Ferraro, the first woman vice presidential candidate on a major party ticket, attracted a TV audience of nearly 57 million.

Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) scores for high schools in South Carolina have been retracted. School officials say there was an error calculating graduation rates in the state.

State officials in both Georgia and South Carolina are concerned the downturn in the economy will force them to slash spending. WJBF-TV News Channel 6’s Columbia reporter, Robert Kittle, shows what those cuts could mean for South Carolina residents.

A spokeswoman for DJ AM says the celebrity disc jockey has been released from a Georgia hospital after suffering severe burns in a fiery plane crash a week ago. Jenni Weinman said Friday that DJ AM had been released from the Joseph M. Still Burn Center in Augusta.

Police say an argument over the use of a credit card led a father to try to shoot his son at a Lowe’s store, Tuesday, in Columbia.

There is a great deal of concern about the big national economic bailout. In fact, one of your U.S. Senators, Lindsey Graham, says its a choice between two options…one bad…the other…catastrophic. WJBF-TV News Channel 6’s Capitol reporter, Robert Kittle, tells us how the plan could affect you.

The investigation continues into the Columbia, SC plane crash that killed 4 and injured former Blink 182 drummer, Travis Barker, and celebrity disc jockey, DJ AM (Adam Goldstein). Some new dash cam video from the first police officer to arrive on the scene sheds more light on what exactly happened.