In the week after a stray bullet paralyzed an 18-year-old USC student, most people have agreed that Five Points has a problem. But opinions vary on just what that problem is.
Five Points, long a favorite shopping and bar district among students, is not safe for them late at night, USC President Harris Pastides said Tuesday.
As she addressed a crowd of USC students about participating in the political process, actress Phylicia Rashad channeled her inner Clair Huxtable and told the students exactly what she thought.
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.
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.
Education, empowerment and entertainment were the words Jasmine Gant used to describe “One Mic,” an annual talent exposition to raise domestic violence awareness.
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 the wake of the weekend Five Points shooting that critically injured 18-year-old Martha Childress, a first-year business student at USC, students gathered Monday night to show their support for Childress and pray for her recovery.
The house of delegates met for the first time Monday night, electing Josh Snead, who filed an organizational challenge to enact the body, speaker of the house.
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.
This week’s crime blotter features a man sleeping in an intersection and a woman passed out next to a garbage can.
Associate Director for Graduate Studies and Research Erik Collins will be retiring after this semester, passing his role on to Lance Holbert.
Students and drag fans alike packed PT’s 1109 Friday night to see who would be crowned Mr. and Miss Gaymecock at the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Straight Alliance’s annual pageant.
A USC student is in critical condition after she was struck early Sunday morning by a stray bullet in Five Points.
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.
The house of delegates will have its first meeting Monday night at 6 p.m. in the Williams-Brice Nursing Auditorium, Student Government has announced.
Law Professor Robert Bockman spoke about the risk, challenge and liberation of reading, writing and running at his “last lecture” Wednesday night.