Lawmakers debate how to help students read South Carolina lawmakers are still discussing how to respond to a study showing that about 30 percent of third graders in the state struggle to read at their grade level, WIS reported. They are currently debating a measure that would hold back third graders who fail to meet certain requirements.
It’s official: Ben Rector will open for Andy Grammer at Carolina Productions’ spring concert April 17.
Gov. Nikki Haley will soon see Emma’s Law on her desk, a former Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center guard was sentenced Wednesday to serving two years in federal prison after he beat a homeless man in a cell and a former Columbia postal worker pleaded guilty to taking counterfeit bills from Secret Service agents to spend on various things, including drugs.
The next leaders of The Daily Gamecock, Garnet & Black magazine and WUSC-FM were selected Wednesday by the Board of Student Publications and Communications.
Vice President Joe Biden and Boeing President W. James McNerny will address graduates at commencement ceremonies May 9 and 10.
Columbia moved one step closer to bringing a minor league baseball team to the city after City Council on Tuesday voted to build a stadium in a planned Bull Street development.
At 4 p.m. on a warm, sunny Wednesday, Haley Guyton is raking the sand at USC’s new sand volleyball facility along with her teammates.
Police are not sure who called in a fake bomb threat that cleared the city courthouse for more than two hours Tuesday. Investigators are trying to figure out who called the threat in, city police said on Twitter. No hazards were found after the threat was reported around 10 a.m., and the scene was cleared around 12:30 p.m. The evacuation closed two blocks of Washington Street in the Vista from Park Street to Gadsden Street.
S.C. State University used millions of state dollars that were intended to aid poor families to cover its budget problems, The State reported.
Mickey Rooney died Sunday at the age of 93 in his North Hollywood home. According to the Los Angeles County Coroner’s office, Rooney died a natural death.
Gov. Haley plans $50,000 trip to India Gov. Nikki Haley will travel to India for a trade mission in November, The State reported.
Opera is in Mandy Fang’s family. Her father, sister and brother-in-law are all professional opera singers, but Fang has stayed on the composition side of the centuries-old art.
Barney Frank, a retired U.S. congressman from Massachusetts and former chairman of the House Finance Committee, is one of the people that worked to prevent economic crisis in years past.
Briefs don’t include every incident from the last week, and suspects are presumed innocent until proven guilty. Information could change as investigations continue.
When David Simone was diagnosed with T-cell lymphoma cancer the fall of his junior year, his Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity brothers stepped up to the plate to help out.
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.
As candles were lit, tents were set up and music raged on, students remembered why being a part of Relay for Life was important to them.