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Small library added to West Columbia community center

A small library designed for families is opening at a community center in a West Columbia park.Click to Continue »

 

Man charged with DUI following Blossom Street crashes Thursday morning

A man has been charged with DUI in connection with an accident at Blossom and Harden and Blossom and Assembly streets Thursday morning.Click to Continue »

 

Teens charged in bank robbery

Two St. James High School students were charged with armed robbery in connection to an October 2014 incident, authorities said.Click to Continue »

 

Voices of Faith: What do you make of Balaam and his donkey?

The Rev. Roger Coleman, Pilgrim Chapel: For those of us who come to faith not through study of holy writ or acceptance of revered traditions but by reflection on everyday…Click to Continue »

 

Junk food sales ban at SC schools partially lifted

Attention, schools across South Carolina, you may now resume selling junk food, but on a limited basis.Click to Continue »

 

Charles Townes, Nobel Prize winning native of SC, dies at 99

Charles Townes, a Greenville native, Nobel laureate, nature lover and deeply religious man, died Tuesday in California. He was 99, six months shy of a goal he set for himself…Click to Continue »

 

S.C. State vows to improve 13.7% graduation rate

Struggling S.C. State University wants an added $13.7 million from House budget writers to pay off a $6 million state loan and improve operations at the college, which has one…Click to Continue »

 

Scoppe: Distracted legislating? Don’t bog down SC ethics debate with extraneous issues

LAST WEEK, House Democrats called for creating a redistricting commission to take senators and representatives out of the business of drawing their own districts, a process that has led to…Click to Continue »

 

Barnwell hatchery back in operation, 12 years after being shut down in state budget crunch

The Barnwell Fish Hatchery is back in operation, more than a decade after it was closed due to budget cuts to the S.C. Department of Natural Resources.Click to Continue »

 

Friendship 9 civil-rights era convictions thrown out (+video)

A group of South Carolina civil rights heroes had their moment in the sun on Wednesday morning, as their 1961 convictions for sitting at a whites-only lunch counter were “vacated,Click to Continue »

 

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