In Brief: 7/19/16
By Mary Ramsey | July 19, 2016McMaster to address Republican National Convention South Carolina’s own lieutenant governor will speak at the Republican National Convention on Tuesday, The State reports.
McMaster to address Republican National Convention South Carolina’s own lieutenant governor will speak at the Republican National Convention on Tuesday, The State reports.
A SLED agent was fired and charged with domestic violence against his partner. Two were injured and one died in a motorcycle accident on North Main Street. A boater was sentenced to five years after a 2014 Lake Marion crash killed a USC student.
An attack in Nice, France, resulted in the death of at least 77 people. After firing the captain over a Facebook post and closing the station's doors, the Columbia Fire Department has reopened the fire station. Evidence of salmonella was found in the Lexington County Detention Center.
Former Clemson basketball star Demontez Stitt has died of a heart attack at 27. SC Attorney General Alan Wilson was overruled in a major state court case. A Chapin nurse has received an award for rescuing a woman from a car wreck.
Columbia saw a First Amendment free-for-all on Sunday. Citizens voiced their support for the Confederate flag and states' rights in the late morning and afternoon outside the Statehouse. The evening consisted of a Black Lives Matter protest at the same location.
A new LGBTQ Peer Mentoring Program has been announced by the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs.
After a hard-fought primary campaign, Bernie Sanders endorsed his rival Hillary Clinton on Tuesday and ended his presidential bid.
Today in briefs: Former USC football coach Steve Spurrier has announced that he is publishing a memoir. After a controversial Facebook post mentioning Black Lives Matter protesters, a Columbia fire captain was fired. The driver who crashed through the wall on USC's historic Horseshoe has been identified.
USC is implementing a clear bag policy for ticketed athletic events for safety purposes. An incident at the estate of former South Carolina governor Mark Sanford is under investigation by SLED. Columbia Mayor Steve Benjamin paid a visit to Texas as a U.S. Conference of Mayors delegate for a memorial of the five Dallas officers killed last week.
The flag that was removed from Statehouse grounds on July 10, 2015 was raised again in the same place one year later on Sunday for a rally that drew hundreds of supporters and some protesters.
Newspring Church's pastor is removed, police intervene in Greenville Black Lives Matter protest and South Carolina chief justice takes issue with judiciary funding.
Councilman Moe Baddourah and wife Carrie Rhett must clear psychological evaluations to determine child custody plans. As it passes its 7th day with temperatures above 100 degrees Fahrenheit, Columbia is now one day from breaking its record. A Sumter County teen has been charged in a series of burglaries.
An automobile crashed through the wall and gate of USC's Horseshoe overnight. One man was injured and hospitalized in a Columbia shooting. A head-on collision on Garners Ferry Road left four in the hospital and one dead.
USC football legend Jadeveon Clowney will open and own a vape shop in Columbia. Richland County Coroner Gary Watts released the name of a man who died of hyperthermia in Tuesday's extreme temperatures. An SC woman is charged with failure to pay taxes from her multimillion-dollar income.
The staff at USC's Office of Multicultural Student Affairs will host a space for discussion of recent tragedies in Russell House on Friday afternoon.
USC is now ranked above Clemson among top collegiate athletic programs. Columbia is to be recognized by the Obama administration for its outstanding participation in the "My Brother's Keeper" initiative. Charleston was named the world's best city by Travel + Leisure Magazine.
The battle flag of the Confederacy will be raised on the grounds of the State House by the S.C. Secessionist Party on Sunday in honor of confederate soldiers and in protest of the flag's removal from the dome of the House a year ago.