Converse News

Converse College senior Elly MacPhail with a young Ugandan boy who was suffering from a cleft palate and was also severely malnourished.

Marianna Habisreutinger, left, was named the 2009 Citizen of the Year at a presentation by the Kiwanis Club of Spartanburg during a luncheon at the Piedmont Club on Thursday.

Holly Welch, Linda Dogan, and Chris Thompson shovel dirt on the Shawnee Brave Bald Cypress planted in Happy Hollow Park as part of the Arbor Day celebration Friday.

Sherry Phillips, RN, administers the H1N1 flu vaccine to Ashley Davis at Spartanburg Methodist College on Monday.

Published: Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 3:15 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 10:49 p.m. Roger Luttrell has come a long way since he was an accounting student in the late 1960s.

Don Henderson bought a contract in South Carolina's pre-paid college tuition program for his daughter seven years ago, feeling secure enough in that financial decision to retire from his job as a Charlotte firefighter.

Published: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 3:15 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at 9:50 p.m. Converse College will play host to a community 5K run/walk Saturday that also will serve as a celebration for participants of Girls on the Run of Spartanburg.

Customer Ruth Jones congratulates Spartanburg Mayor-elect Junie White on his election at his Exxon station on Friday.

The relationship between the Upstate and China may soon get a lot closer. In a partnership with Converse and Wofford colleges and Clemson and Furman universities, Presbyterian College was officially awarded a Confucius Institute by the Chinese government in a dedication ceremony Friday at the Clinton school.

Converse Chellis, one of South Carolina's most left-leaning, free-spending "Republican" politicians, will face a GOP primary opponent in 2010, FITS has learned.

New state revenue numbers may not help legislators hoping to use budget problems as a reason to call a special session at which they could discuss impeaching Gov.

The South Carolina Tuition Prepayment Program is the latest victim of the nation's struggling economy.

The man who the South Carolina Ethics Commission says owes more than $500,000 to the state is speaking out.

South Carolina polticians, candidates and lobbyists -- including the state's own treasurer -- owe a combined total of more than $2.5 million to the state ethics commission, the agency said Tuesday.

Families looking to save on back-to-school items from laptops to high-tops make South Carolina's annual sales tax-free holiday every August the second-biggest shopping weekend of the year.

By John Messer Contributing Writer Forty-five incoming freshmen from Spartanburg Methodist College, in conjunction with the Ninth Annual Freshman Day of Service, 2009, came from SMC to Aldersgate United Methodist Church on Saturday, August 22 for a workday.

Two S.C. economists delivered a mixed bag of news this morning about the state's economic condition, with one characterizing the expected pace out of the recession as an "unfortunately slow crawl." Although South Carolina has added employment opportunities in recent years, it is bleeding jobs at a faster rate and increasing in population at the ...

Tickets are on sale for the July 30 Power Breakfast Series , which will feature a panel of speakers offering a midyear forecast about the state and national economies.

COLUMBIA a ' South Carolina is in a deep economic hole, and even when it starts to turn around, it could take four years for the unemployment rate to fall back to what it was before the recession hit.

State officials are nervously awaiting today's jobless numbers after the current numbers triggered a proposal Thursday to increase unemployment taxes on employers and state revenue projections dropped by 3.5 percent.