The state Senate passed a bill that would allow guns in bars, the head of an S.C. development firm filed for bankruptcy and a suspicious package was found downtown, the third in a week.
After a 10-year battle that inspired her to raise money and encourage organ donations, Jessica Clark, a USC student, died last week.
A naked wanderer on LSD is found in a state forest, federal budget cuts are causing some delayed flight arrivals, and Elizabeth Colbert Busch leads Mark Sanford in polls for the 1st Congressional Seat race.
USC athletes traded their playing fields for a red carpet Monday evening at the annual Gamecock Gala awards ceremony at Colonial Life Arena.
Gubernatorial candidate state Sen. Vincent Sheheen, a Democrat from Kershaw County, will visit USC and engage in a Q-and-A session with students today at 7 p.m. in Russell House room 305.
USC’s EcoReps Leadership Team started celebrating Earth Week with a tie-dyeing event on the Russell House Patio Monday.
Gamecock quarterbacks Connor Shaw and Dylan Thompson gave Capstone Scholars a glimpse of their personalities and encouragement to be leaders when they spoke at the semester’s final Capstone Conversation Monday afternoon.
Through tears and protracted pauses, Randy Scott said Monday he’s leaving his post as Columbia’s police chief. Scott’s tenure at the police department, capped by a weeks-long, unexplained leave, will end May 1, according to City Manager Teresa Wilson.
Columbia paid $52,000 toward Randy Scott’s retirement fund, and 55 pounds of marijuana were found in an arcade game.
The blotter comes from police reports released by the USC Division of Law Enforcement and Safety and doesn’t include crimes reported by city or county law enforcement.
A USC police officer is being investigated for his conduct after last week’s armed robbery in Five Points that involved four USC students.
More than 2,000 participants representing 85 teams asked and answered that question at the 2013 Relay For Life, the annual event that raises money for the American Cancer Society.
South Carolinians polled say they support creating a path to citizenship for undocumented workers, domestic violence accounts for two-thirds of Richland homicides this year, and a fourth-grade Summerville teacher faces multiple drug charges.
Tim Black went to work and started a family after he graduated high school — college wasn’t on his radar. The 47-year-old is a quality inspector at a steel manufacturer in Union, and after putting his kids through college, he figured it was his turn.
Three USC students were robbed at gunpoint late Tuesday night while walking in a Five Points alley.
As students spend the last days of the semester completing final projects and papers and preparing for exams, professors are hoping they’ll put some time into another assignment, too — professor evaluations. An increasing trend toward online forms in place of traditional paper surveys seems to have helped push evaluation completion rates up to around 70 to 80 percent, says Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Studies Helen Doerpinghaus.
Even though Columbia is more than 900 miles away from Boston, many members of the Gamecock community felt closely affected by Monday’s Boston Marathon tragedy. Boston native Luke Flanagan, a second-year exercise science student, said he felt his stomach drop as soon as he heard the news of the bombs that wreaked havoc on the streets he had known for so long.