Hostage suspect surrenders after three Texas officers hurt in shootout
A 16-hour hostage situation and exchange of gunfire that injured three police officers ended calmly Monday with the suspect surrendering.
Author: Associated Press
UofSC to implement saliva testing for COVID 19
(Courtesy: UofSC/Twitter) Columbia, S.C. (AP)–The University of South Carolina is joining a handful of universities nationwide to implement saliva tests for COVID-19. The school said Tuesday the tests will be free for students, faculty and staff on its Columbia campus. The implementation of the tests comes amid the university’s attempt to hold classes, which are set to begin Thursday, in…
More than 200 unmarked graves found on Clemson campus
CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) – A team of researchers has announced that more than 200 unmarked graves have been discovered in a Clemson University cemetery. The graves are thought to be of those enslaved at John C. Calhoun’s plantation as well as sharecroppers and convicted workers who constructed campus buildings. Researchers had long known unidentified bodies of African-Americans were buried among…
State lawmakers to consider election changes
Columiba, S.C. (AP)–South Carolina’s Senate is coming back into session in two weeks to mull over possible election law updates necessitated by the coronavirus outbreak. Senate President Harvey Peeler said Monday that state senators would return Sept. 2 to “make plans to protect the voter and the vote” given that the pandemic continues in the run up to the November…
Three producers exit DeGeneres’ show amid workplace complaints
Three producers of “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” have exited amid multiple allegations of a dysfunctional workplace.
California power grid operator cancels rolling blackouts
Widespread blackouts to reduce pressure on the electric grid were averted on Monday night in California during a heat wave.
SC Senate called back to ‘protect the voter and the vote’
COLUMBIA, SC (AP) – South Carolina’s Senate is coming back into session in two weeks to mull over possible election law updates necessitated by the coronavirus outbreak. Senate President Harvey Peeler said Monday that state senators would return Sept. 2 to “make plans to protect the voter and the vote” given that the pandemic continues in the run up to…
Congressman Clyburn to address DNC
Washington D.C. (AP)– South Carolina congressman James Clyburn is now the highest-ranking Black lawmaker in Congress, the House Democratic Whip, and one of the few 1960s civil rights movement leaders still in elective office today. He’ll bring that connection to the past to the Democratic National Convention on Monday. Clyburn will address a country in a new phase of…
Mercedes Barcha, widow of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, dies at 87
Mercedes Barcha, who was credited by late husband and Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez with making it possible for him…
Some radioactive Savannah River Site waste headed to Texas
The U.S. Department of Energy is planning to send radioactive wastewater from an SC nuclear reservation to Texas to be treated and disposed.
