In Brief: October 22, 2013
By Hannah Jeffrey | Oct. 21, 2013Absentee ballots are now being cast, South Carolina State Fair attendance rates are up from last year and Myrtle Beach businesses capitalize on Halloween.
Absentee ballots are now being cast, South Carolina State Fair attendance rates are up from last year and Myrtle Beach businesses capitalize on Halloween.
The Columbia Police Department is seeking three men in connection with the shooting of first-year business student Martha Childress. The men may have gotten into an argument with shooting suspect Michael Juan Smith, who is accused of firing a shot after a fight broke out at a Five Points gas station.
Student Government initiative to open later this month The soon-to-launch Gamecock Pantry will offer much more than food to students and other members of the USC community in need.
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.
The Residence Hall Association failed to support Student Government’s Walk Home Cocky Program at a Tuesday night meeting.
After being housed in the Campus Life Center for years, Carolina Productions has officially moved to the third floor of Russell House.
Graham campaign raises over $1.17 million U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham’s campaign has more money now than it has ever had, after raising $1.17 million from July to September, The State reported. According to Graham’s campaign, Graham has more than $6.9 million on hand. In the same period, U.S.
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.