Three USC head coaches’ four-year contract extensions were approved by the board of trustees Monday, allowing the university to retain athletics staff that has brought conference and NCAA honors to Columbia.
The Healthy Carolina Farmers Market is back for the summer, selling fresh fruits, vegetables and other treats to USC students. Though held on Greene Street during the spring and fall, the market is on Davis Field every Tuesday during the summer term.
USC’s School of Journalism and Mass Communications announced the creation of a fellowship for business journalists to earn a doctorate degree, starting with a $500,000 donation from alumnus Kenneth W. Baldwin Jr.
The 49 newest top scholars at USC have been chosen. The university has awarded the annually given Carolina, McNair, Horseshoe and Hamilton scholarships to 44 incoming freshmen, and five new students have received Stamps Carolina Scholarships, established this year through a gift from the Stamps Family Charitable Foundation.
Main Street’s oldest building is becoming a bank and coffee shop, Rep. Bakari Sellers will run for lieutenant governor and concealed carry permit holders are one step closer to bringing guns to restaurants and bars.
Incidents including a DUI, simple possession of marijuana and a fight between two women occurred in the last week’s worth of reports.
USC is partnering with the Columbia Police Department to gauge residents’ perceptions of the city’s safety. The effort is funded by a grant from the Smart Policing Initiative totaling nearly $300,000, CPD spokeswoman Jennifer Timmons said.
Recent Honors College graduate, William “Cole” Franks has been awarded the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship (NDSEG).
John McDermott, chair of the economics department, has been appointed interim dean of the Darla Moore School of Business.
USC’s board of trustees approved a $4.965 million project May 28 intended to mitigate the settlement of dirt near Carolina Stadium’s left field that has caused cracking in sidewalks and the stadium’s facade. The high price tag comes from the amount of engineering work the project requires, which USC spokesman Wes Hickman said is “pretty significant.”
The Gamecocks will play at home for yet another bid to travel to Omaha for the 2013 College World Series. The team, which finished second to Arizona for last year’s national championship, will face off against Saint Louis, which has been seeded fourth of the four teams which will play at Carolina Stadium.
Charlotte’s mayor will join Obama’s cabinet, a woman was arrested in the killing of a former S.C. State football player and three cast members from “Welcome to Myrtle Manor” were arrested over the weekend.
Near the 29th obstacle of Saturday’s USMC Ultimate Challenge Mud Run, 20 people were lying in the mud. A Marine stood over them shouting instructions.
Less than 1 percent of Richland County’s population is estimated to be homeless. But that doesn’t mean the other 99 percent doesn’t have a stake in addressing the problem of homelessness.
USC’s endowment was among the fastest growing in the SEC last year, but on a per-student basis, it’s still the smallest in the conference.
A Columbia rapper pleads guilty to sex trafficking, a suspected bank robber is arrested while waiting for a getaway cab, and four children die in a Hartsville mobile home fire.
Running into Callcott Auditorium on Thursday night to “2001,” Cocky presented an award of his likeness to Mark Sarosi, the art director behind the Budweiser “Brotherhood” advertisement. The Cocky Award, voted on annually by members of Professor Bonnie Drewniany’s “Super Bowl of Advertising” class, is presented to the best Super Bowl commercial each year.