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In Brief: October 15, 2013

A development group wants to buy the Palmetto Compress building from the city, a Newberry woman is sentenced to 50 years in prison for killing her boyfriend, and state agencies must submit reports on state-owned buildings.


	Die-In participants lay down on the Pickens Street Bridge on Monday to raise awareness of domestic violence.

Feminists ‘Die-In’ on Pickens

Students crossing the Pickens Street Bridge on the way to class between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. yesterday were forced to think about an issue that usually does not come to mind during a class change: domestic violence.


CPD Chief Ruben Santiago: ‘We want to prevent crime’

Interim Columbia Police Chief Ruben Santiago said Monday he did not believe there was anything officers in Five Points could have done differently to prevent the shooting early Sunday morning that left first-year business student Martha Childress, 18, in critical condition after being struck by a stray bullet.


In Brief: Oct. 13, 2013

A healthy baby is born after her mother jumped from a burning building while pregnant, a Charleston developer is expected to announce a bid for lieutenant governor today and sports-related concussions have more than doubled in South Carolina since 1998.


In Brief: Oct. 9, 2013

The government shutdown is hurting Columbia’s craft beer industry, while it has inspired another man to tidy D.C. monuments while workers are furloughed.


Ramirez twirls to top in USC's Got Talent

A few minutes before competing against each other, a group of performers circled a piano in a backstage Russell House hallway and belted out Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’.”