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Former Academic Magnet standout Tyre Moore and his fellow Mercer University basketball players attended a vigil Wednesday night for their slain teammate, Jibri Bryan.

Former Wando football standout Gimel President has decided to leave Auburn as a graduate transfer and will be eligible to play one more season.

CLEMSON — It seemed every game was a referendum on the head coach’s job security and the future of the Clemson baseball program.

COLUMBIA — On what was his final National Signing Day at South Carolina, former head coach Steve Spurrier inked a host of defensive linemen he hoped would turn around the worst pass rush in the SEC. On his first signing day with the Gamecocks, new head coach Will Muschamp tried to do the same.

With under a week until the South Carolina primary season starts for real, here are some of Thursday’s developments:

With a weather forecast of cool temperatures but no rain, organizers of the largest annual cleanup in the Francis Marion National Forest are hoping to draw more than the 155 brave souls who endured foul weather last year.

The sprawling homeless encampment known as Tent City along Upper Meeting Street will be cleared in 30 to 60 days, Charleston officials and homeless advocates said Thursday.

A change at the top and a lot of new faces on the court has not slowed the Summerville girls basketball team’s effort to win a fifth consecutive Region 8-AAAA championship.

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COLUMBIA, S.C. — Olympic figure skater Michelle Kwan is coming to South Carolina to campaign for Hillary Clinton.

Ocean Surf Shop continues its efforts to promote surfing in the worst stretch of winter with the announcement that the "call period" for the fourth annual Icebox Open on Folly Beach is underway.

COLUMBIA – The widely anticipated Senate roads debate remains slow moving to the ire of many lawmakers a month into the legislative session.

Thursday began with Citadel defensive coordinator Maurice Drayton telling Bulldog players he was leaving his alma mater for a job in the NFL. The day ended with new Citadel coach Brent Thompson hiring an offensive coordinator, Lou Conte.

The Charleston area isn’t exactly hurting for burgers.

Presidential-race drama sells.

Last fall, I listened as a mother named Cary Dixon told her family’s story at a forum I convened in West Virginia.

It’s a little-understood virus with an exotic-sounding name carried by a particularly aggressive species of mosquito. It’s also possibly capable of causing both a debilitating auto-immune condition and a crippling birth defect.

Nine days ago, 28 pieces of legislation were scheduled to be introduced to the S.C. House of Representatives. Of those, six were bills that pertained to issues like firearms laws, a call for a constitutional convention and declaring a new wildlife sanctuary.

COLIZZI, Sammy, 85, of Charleston, husband of Marlene L. Colizzi, died Tuesday. Arrangements by Simplicity Lowcountry Cremation and Burial Services of North Charleston.

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Teachers preach the gospel of grit to their students at Meeting Street Elementary @Brentwood, a unique public school under private management in an impoverished section of North Charleston.

Over the last few years we’ve been treated to a number of "Facebook revolutions," from the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street to the squares of Istanbul, Kiev and Hong Kong, all fueled by social media. But once the smoke cleared, most of these revolutions failed to build any sustainable new political order, in part...

Charleston Southern held a four-point lead with under seven minutes to play, but UNC Asheville outscored the Buccaneers, 17-5, down the stretch to take a 63-55 Big South Conference win over CSU on Wednesday night in Asheville, N.C.

If you’re a father, husband, brother, grandfather or uncle (let me see, I think I’ve covered all the male relatives in the family) you might want to keep your daughter, wife, sister, granddaughter or niece, away from tomorrow night’s College of Charleston-Towson basketball game at TD Arena.

COLUMBIA — An enthusiastic crowd braved rain and tornado warnings Wednesday evening to hear former President Bill Clinton tell them why his wife Hillary is their best choice for president.