The North Myrtle Beach Park & Sports Complex hosted 80 teams for the International Quidditch Association World Cup VII this weekend, USC Upstate faces budget cut threats once again and candidates for S.C. governor and attorney general received $336,345 in campaign contributions that were over state legal limits.
Police are investigating a pair of weekend aggravated assaults at the Woodlands and Copper Beech that hurt two people within two hours. The first incident early Sunday morning involved a group of three or four assailants, a police report said.
Lights, cameras and fashion galore represented the finale for USC Fashion Board’s week of festivities. The event, hosted by America’s Next Top Model icon Yoanna House, welcomed students, community members and vendors, who each played a role in fostering the event’s success.
Hotelier scopes out Vista as potential build site An undisclosed hotelier is interested in building a new, 100-room hotel in the Vista, The State reported. According to an attorney representing an investment group interested in the property, the hotelier is looking at a 0.6-acre lot at Lincoln and Lady streets that fronts the city’s new Lady Street parking garage. The unidentified investment group owns other hotels in the state, and the new five-story hotel would have dedicated parking spaces in the garage.
SC is home to 18 sets of twins in the freshman class alone. Some of them may blend into the crowd, but Peggy and Julie Smith definitely stand out.
The student senate celebrated Wednesday night after passing its first few pieces of legislation, followed by a lively discussion regarding the university’s health services.
The state Supreme Court ruled in favor of George M. Lee III regarding seat-licensing fees, State Senate Majority Leader Harvey Peeler objected to a bill that would make the Columbian mammoth the official state fossil of South Carolina and an observatory dome was lifted to the top of the South Carolina State Museum Wednesday.
Fashion and style occupied the Arnold School of Public Health Tuesday as the USC Fashion Board hosted its annual symposium.
Students will start feeling the effects of USC’s plans to build a privately funded dorm behind the Carolina Coliseum as soon as next week.
Wayne Gregory, Jr., who has served as the City of Columbia’s economic development director, has been fired and arrested for embezzling money, WIS-TV reported.
A few days after the dust settled at the Springdale Race Course, the highly anticipated numbers are in: How many people got arrested?
For the Hester family of Newberry, making soap runs in the family.
Three men were arrested after the Friday robbery of a convenience store in West Columbia, The State reported.
Construction on the 878-bed housing project on USC’s west campus is set to begin in fall 2015 and will change up parking accommodations around the Carolina Coliseum, according to a university release.
Columbia Police have arrested the suspect connected to last weekend’s shooting in Five Points. Jacob O’Nay Green, 23, was located at a Riverwind Drive apartment complex at around noon Monday, according to a CPD press release.
A bus traveling to Carolina Cup Saturday morning crashed into another bus after the driver swerved to avoid a couch in the road.
Briefs don’t include every incident from the last week, and suspects are presumed innocent until proven guilty. Information could change as investigations continue.