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Allen University launched its Langston Hughes Poetry Center with poetic joy.Click to Continue »

God gave Karen Alexander a vision 14 years ago when she started her program for education and empowerment through the arts, she says.Click to Continue »

A street gang-themed fraternity party and hateful social media comments have stirred demands from some Clemson University students and faculty for administrators to address the lack of diversity at that…Click to Continue »

A verbal argument of an undisclosed nature turned violent Saturday morning at the Mallard Pointe Apartments on Hallbrook Drive off Garners Ferry Road.Click to Continue »

Mark Plowden, chief of staff for S.C. Lieutenant Governor Henry McMaster, has been charged with driving under the influence, court records show.Click to Continue »

A local doctor was arrested Tuesday and charged with simple assault and battery in connection with an incident at Sand Dunes Resort in Myrtle Beach.Click to Continue »

LEXINGTON, S.C. (AP) – South Carolina road officials say Interstate 20 west of Columbia will be the next South Carolina interstate expanded to three lanes in each direction.Click to Continue »

Students at Allen University were told to remain indoors Friday night after a student was grazed in the leg by a ricocheting bullet near campus, university officials said.Click to Continue »

South Carolina law enforcement officials issued an amber alert Saturday morning for a missing 14-year-old girl in Chesterfield County. Deputies said Alexis Ann Deas' stepfather took her Friday from school…Click to Continue »

Almost Heaven Retreats are for seeking spiritual direction in the solace of silence.Click to Continue »