University of South Carolina News

Megan Pinckney, Miss South Carolina USA, turned her head from the microphone when Christina Milian, one of the judges for Sunday night's Miss USA pageant, finished asking the question.

Science and religion can co-exist. This is what John R. Carpenter puts forward in his new book.

A line of protesters slog below a cloudy sky in "Selma-to-Montgomery March for Voting Rights in 1965."

Grade inflation has been a story for some time but we may now have to face the possibility that entire fields of study have been inflated beyond their value.

Christopher Black — a York Comprehensive High School assistant principal who graduated from the school in 1993 — has been promoted to principal, replacing retiring principal Diane Howell.

Miss South Carolina USA 2013, Megan Pinckney, is announced as one of the 15 finalists for Miss USA 2013 during the 2013 MISS USA Competition at PH Live in Las Vegas, Nevada on June 16, 2013.

The University of South Carolina again is raising tuition and fees at the lowest rate since 1999 even as the school's state funding dwindles.

Among in-state tuition increases announced so far, The Citadel has the smallest, at 3 percent, with Winthrop at 3.1 percent, and College of Charleston and Lander University at 3.16 and 3.15 percent, respectively.

Greenwood City Council voted unanimously to deny a zoning change that would allow three fraternity houses to be built on W. Durst Avenue by a group based out of Augusta.

University of South Carolina students will pay on average about 3.145 percent more a semester in tuition costs after the school's Board of Trustees voted to approve the increase Monday.

Larry Swilling's months-long quest to find a kidney for his wife has touched hearts around the world, but so far has not yielded a vital organ for the 76-year-old woman.

Megan Pinckney, 22, a Charleston native and student at the University of South Carolina, was named the fifth runner-up.

South Carolina is among 45 states that adopted Common Core. Five states - Alaska, Minnesota, Nebraska, Texas and Virginia - did not adopt the standards.

Stowe, an assistant biology professor at Beacon College in Leesburg, can't get enough of them.

The bride-to-be is a graduate of Clemson University with a bachelor's degree in Psychology and is currently a student at The Medical University of South Carolina College of Dental Medicine.

Jennifer is a graduate of Dorman High School and The University of South Carolina and Jake is a graduate of Riverside High School and Clemson University.

For Bluffton Today Dr. Paul "Mac" Horton, director of Clemson Institute for Economic & Community Development, Karl Kelly, director of Commercialization and Technology Incubation for Clemson's Technology Village and Mayor Lisa Sulka graduated innovator Bill Grand, CEO of NutriFusion.

At the 2010 Juno Awards, the Canadian equivalent of the Grammy Awards, Justin Bieber performed an acoustic version of his hit single "Baby."

Among in-state tuition increases announced so far, The Citadel has the smallest, at 3 percent, with Winthrop at 3.1 percent, and College of Charleston and Lander University at 3.16 and 3.15 percent, respectively.

Bluegrass and country musicians from Bill's Music Shop & Pickin' Parlor took the stage for the last Rhythm on the River concert of the spring season.