Third-year USC law student Stephanie Wharen is set to compete in the 2015 Ringside World Championship Boxing Tournament from August 5-8, arguably one of the most important events within amateur boxing.
The KKK and NSM were met with fierce opposition during their rally outside of the South Carolina Statehouse on Saturday.
The University of South Carolina announced on Thursday morning that South Carolina Supreme Court Justice Jean Toal, the first woman to serve on the state's highest court, will be the commencement speaker for summer 2015 graduates on August 8.
With the possibility of a 15-story housing complex, the Icon on Main, located within a block of the Horseshoe, the My Carolina alumni association has argued that it is not far enough from the historic quadrangle – because at times it will “cast a dark shadow on the historic Horseshoe.”
New Horizons passes by Pluto after 9 years of flight NASA's New Horizons research vessel hit an important milestone today as it passed by Pluto following a nine year journey that took the craft more than 3 billion miles from Earth,
On Friday morning, the Confederate battle flag was removed from the South Carolina Statehouse grounds for the last time.
An Air Force F-16 fighter jet collided mid-air with another plane at around 11:01 a.m. on Tuesday.
National titles not on roster for SEC Network's USC 'Takeover' day The Gamecock's two most recent College World Series championships are not planned in the lineup on Thursday, during the 24-hour block that USC games will "take over" the SEC Network's programming. An ESPN statement further explained that there was a catch to the network devoting a whole day of coverage to a school— the exclusive rights to the game held by ESPN. "NCAA championships were unavailable for schools to air this year during their Takeover day,” ESPN said in the statement.
On Tuesday, a chapter in South Carolina history began winding down when Dylann Roof was formally indicted on 13 charges related to the Charleston church shooting, at the same time that the S.C. Senate entered the final throes of voting over the removal of the Confederate flag from the Statehouse grounds.
With her crowning on Saturday as Miss South Carolina, Daja Dial pledged to lead the state into a new era of progress starting with support of the Confederate flag’s removal from Statehouse grounds, and in turn received approval from viewers and fellow competitors alike.
It is time again for South Carolina Black Pride Week which, starting Wednesday, will celebrate the African-American LGBT community through a myriad of family-friendly, political and entertainment events for “the most vulnerable and underserved in our community,” as described on the SC Black Pride website.
A public viewing will be held for the late Senator Clementa Pinckney on Wednesday in the South Carolina Statehouse, SCE&G announced that it had donated $100,000 to the Mother Emmanuel AME Church, and following the controversy around the Confederate battle flag in front of the South Carolina Statehouse this week, petitioners have begun to rally to remove a similar symbol found on the Mississippi state flag.
On Tuesday, as the S.C. General Assembly begins discussions over the Confederate battle flag on the Statehouse grounds, the words "Take it down!" echoed around the capitol, as large crowds gathered to rally both for and against its removal.
As a violent cloudburst subsided over the capital of the Palmetto State on Monday afternoon, Governor Nikki Haley held a press conference calling for the removal of the Confederate battle flag from the South Carolina Statehouse grounds.
On Thursday morning, the FBI released information on the man they suspect to have carried out a shooting on June 17 at a historic African-American church in Charleston that left nine dead and left another three in the hospital.
The Richland County Sherrif’s Department were called to respond to a house on Pelican Drive in the middle of the day after a man was shot multiple times in front yard, the USC director of the former Center for Manufacturing and Technology, pleaded guilty to illegally obtaining $336,000 in federal grant money last Friday, and the Oliver Gospel Mission has begun the task of providing heat relief to the homeless.
As flocks of incoming freshmen flooded campus on Monday and Tuesday for the first of 13 orientation sessions, returning students and graduates were reminded of their own experiences as first-years.