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Ridge View Wins First Region Title Since 2007
Columbia - Last year at this time, Ridge View senior quarterback Tre Howard was a bystander after suffering a season-ending foot injury in the season opener. On Thursday, the fully healthy Touchstone Energy Cooperatives Bowl selection led the Blazers to their first region title since 2007. He threw four touchdowns in the 57-28 win over Gray Collegiate Academy.
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Savannah State University associate professor previews South Carolina upcoming election
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Chapin, Irmo student governments make history
Chapin High School and Irmo High School International School for the Arts made history at the Southern Association of Student Councils (SASC) Annual Conference, earning leadership roles that will bring the region’s student leadership conference to District Five for two consecutive years. Chapin High School juniors Tillman Lominack and...
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Flour Power: Before Carrie Morey, Callie’s Hot Little Biscuit, created a biscuit empire, she gained the tools she needed to succeed at the University of South Carolina
Carrie Morey and the University of South Carolina were predestined. It wasn’t kismet — it was her father. “To be honest, I wasn’t given much of a choice,” the Charleston biscuit maker and entrepreneur says of where she went to college. But Morey wouldn’t change a...
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Carolina Food Co. redirects surplus campus food to students
Surplus food from campus retail locations, dining halls and catered events is being directed to University of South Carolina students through three food recovery programs, allowing excess food prepared for campus dining and catered events to serve students even when it goes unused during its intended service. At the University...
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$1.24M in federal funding set to modernize classrooms, expand AI-support at Columbia College
COLUMBIA - Students attending Columbia College may see some artificial intelligence-driven changes in the coming years. Columbia College has been awarded $1,240,577 in first-year funding through the U.S. Department of Education’s Title III Strengthening Institutions Program, which helps institutions by “providing funds to improve and strengthen the institution's academic quality, institutional management, and fiscal stability,” according to the program’s website. The award will launch a five-year initiative that will focus on improving multiple aspects of the small private Columbia-based liber...
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Columbia College awarded over $2 million to support future educators
Columbia College has been awarded a $2,693,966 federal grant through the National Professional Development program to support training and preparing future educators. The five-year project, Collaborative Pathways to English Learner Achievement (CPELA), will expand opportunities for future and practicing teachers to earn English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) qualifications and strengthen classroom instruction by providing full tuition coverage for grant-supported coursework, according to a press release from the college.
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Mr. & Miss SC State University crowned for homecoming
ORANGEBURG, S.C. (WIS) - John Seay-Oliver and Jakari Jones were crowned Mr. and Miss South Carolina State University during the school’s homecoming celebration on Thursday. The 2026 Homecoming Coronation celebrated the Harlem Renaissance. The coronation is only the start of the university’s homecoming weekend. Several events are ahead...
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USC approves new STEM, pharmacy buildings and policy institute
USC trustees approved plans for a new College of Pharmacy building. A five-story STEM Innovation and Research Center received final approval. The Thomson Building will be demolished for Russell House expansion. The new Institute for Public Policy received $1.8 million in state funding. The University of South Carolina Board of...
The State
HS Football Rewind: Lexington downs Chapin in OT; Saluda knocks off No. 1 Strom Thurmond
Lexington’s hopes of hosting a home playoff football game are intact. Easton Crocker scored on a 1-yard run in overtime Friday night as the Wildcats shook off a rough start to defeat Chapin 31-24 at Cecil Woolbright Field. “We were resilient .... and we didn’t flinch,” Lexington coach Stewart Young said. The win sets up a huge matchup to close the regular season next week against rival River Bluff. The winner of that game finishes second in Region 3-5A and is guaranteed a first-round home playoff game Nov. 6. For the second-straight game, Lexington trailed and was down 14 points in the first half. After the Wildcats tied it early in the third quarter, Chapin answered with a field goal to take a 17-14 lead. But Ian Danson returned the ensuing kickoff for a touchdown to put the Wildcats up 21-17. The lead grew to 24-17 on a field goal. Chapin answered as Tyler Black found Connor Finney for a TD to tie the game at 24 with 3:18 left. Lexington had a chance to win it in regulation, but Crocker was picked off on a deep pass by Rory Dreher inside the 5-yard line. Lexington got it first in