In Brief: October 2, 2013
By Hannah Jeffrey | Oct. 1, 2013Mega Millions jackpot to be raised, Nikki Haley’s office assists with heath care questions and bears found in South Carolina mountains to be returned to the wild later this fall.
Mega Millions jackpot to be raised, Nikki Haley’s office assists with heath care questions and bears found in South Carolina mountains to be returned to the wild later this fall.
City Hall gets a $1.1 million renovation, SG’s Constitutional Council releases its opinion on the Snead case, and 5 flu cases have been reported in the Midlands.
More than 3,800 students are enrolled in 212 sections of the course. Students say the organization, size and teaching style of the class have helped them bond with one another and feel comfortable participating in class.
A key component of the Affordable Care Act rolls out today, but the law won’t start to affect USC directly for more than a year. Health insurance exchanges open today, meaning Americans can apply for coverage on state or federal “marketplaces” designed to compare prices and options.
Marva Smalls is not in the aerospace engineering business, but South Carolina is. That’s why Smalls, a USC alumna and executive at Viacom and Nickelodeon, donated $1 million to the McNair Center for Aerospace Innovation and Research.
Today’s In Brief features an overturned tractor-trailer full of pigs, a spike in small-town crime and an upcoming Charleston Battery renovation.
Five thousand people dressed as fairies, bananas and cows in white from head to toe were pelted with paint as they ran across Columbia early Saturday at the Color Me Rad 5k.
Included in this week’s Crime Blotter are a screaming woman and a man throwing mattresses into the street, neither of whom were found by police.
A sea of pink raced through Columbia this Sunday as Zeta Tau Alpha’s largest ever Pink Ribbon 5k kicked off this week’s “Think Pink” activities with a resonant bang.
University Ambassadors welcomed 31 new members this weekend, concluding a complex recruitment process with a “rookie retreat.” The program received 212 applications this year, yielding an acceptance rate of 14.6 percent.
This festival had everything: dogs in rainbow outfits, giant sea urchin-esque backpacks, drag queens and a camel. What sounds like something out of the mouth of Saturday Night Live’s Stefon actually took place in downtown Columbia on Saturday: the 24th annual SC Pride festival, South Carolina’s oldest and largest gay pride celebration.
A rainbow of colors decorated the streets on Saturday as Columbia hosted the annual SC Pride Festival and Parade.
PCBs found in Columbia-area sewers Carcinogenic chemicals have been found in a Columbia-area restaurant’s sewers, The State reported. The revelation comes out of a state investigation of illegal chemical dumping in the Midlands and the Upstate. Now, the concern is whether PCBs found their way into rivers from wastewater treatment plants or onto farmland and landfills from contaminated sludge. PCBs have recently been found in multiple Upstate wastewater treatment plants, which release into rivers.
After years of waiting, students will soon be able to use their CarolinaCards off campus, but not all local businesses are on board.
Columbia will be colorful in more than one way Saturday. Starting the day bright and early at 8 a.m. is the Color Me Rad 5K, in which runners are pelted with five different colors of powdered paint.
Silence was the most persistent noise in the School of Law Auditorium as the audience waited to hear the words of award-winning poet Nikky Finney.
The Arnold School of Public Health sponsored the second annual Hispanic/Latino Community Forum at the Richland County Public Library Thursday evening.