Student voter initiative holds environmental forum
By Mike Woodel | Aug. 31, 2016Environmental issues were the topic of the first of six forums hosted by the Lead The Way voter initiative.
Environmental issues were the topic of the first of six forums hosted by the Lead The Way voter initiative.
A build-up of radioactive material was uncovered at a nuclear power plant near Columbia, Gov. Nikki Haley and her family released their 2014 and 2015 tax returns and one man was hospitalized after a Sunday shooting.
OMSA has opened "The Intersection: Multicultural Student Lounge" to students for meetings, dialogues, presentations and a sense of a diverse and inclusive community.
Attempts to improve emergency personnel's interactions with the deaf and hard of hearing are highlighted after the recent shooting of a deaf North Carolina motorist.
Ernest F. Hollings Special Collections library will recognize one of the most celebrated writers in Southern literature, William Faulkner, with a new exhibit thanks to rare donations.
A father and daughter were found dead in a Northeast Richland County neighborhood, a Hispanic man was killed in an officer-involved shooting in North Charleston and a new Zika case was reported in Horry County.
Court documents revealed new details about the disappearance of Brittanee Drexel while on vacation in Myrtle Beach in 2009, a federal judge ruled the University of North Carolina system can't enforce the state's "'bathroom bill" on its campuses and former Gamecock football standout Victor Hampton was arrested for DUI.
Cooler heads prevailed Thursday evening when students and faculty gathered at the USC School of Law to attend a forum on policing in the 21st century. Guests mingled over refreshments in the Law School lobby prior to adjourning to the auditorium for the main event.
A mural dedicated to the victims of the Mother Emanuel Church was defaced, a man stole more than $10,000 in merchandise from a Columbia Wal-Mart and the Richland County Recreation Commission agreed to cooperate with an investigation.
South Carolina Democrats will drop the names of two former presidents from an annual fundraiser, an inmate's family is suing the Department of Corrections after he died while at Lee Correctional Facility and a man was arrested after making bomb threats to the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center.
The USC School of Medicine is accused of violating the Animal Welfare Act in a federal complaint to be filed Thursday by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.
A conference hosted USC's McNair Center for Aerospace Innovation and Research and other entities pulled members of the scientific, academic and political community together to discuss and promote education and further innovation in the field.
The fall semester's Student Organization Fair gave over 150 of USC's more than 400 clubs a chance to recruit new members.
In the midst of heated discussions about police and community relations and less than a year after an incident at Columbia's Spring Valley High School, USC is delving into the topic in multiple ways this week.
Everything you need to know about what's happening on campus in the coming days
A car crash closed portions of Devine Street on Tuesday, independent taxi drivers will no longer be able to do business at Columbia Metropolitan Airport and an incident involving pepper spray sent 21 Richland County students to the hospital.
No one was injured when shots were fired at a home off Two Notch Road, police are searching for a mentally challenged 18-year-old from Greenville, and mosquitoes in North Charleston were found to have West Nile virus.