Author: Associated Press

US now seeking social media details from all visa applicants

The State Department is now requiring nearly all applicants for U.S. visas to submit their social media usernames, previous email addresses and phone numbers. It’s a vast expansion of the Trump administration’s enhanced screening of potential immigrants and visitors. In a move that’s just taken effect, the department says it has updated its immigrant and nonimmigrant visa application forms to…

Police: 2 students charged after hitting administrators

UNION, S.C. (AP) – Authorities say two Union High School students have been arrested for hitting two assistant principals trying to break up a fight. Union Police said the two female students are charged with disorderly conduct after Tuesday’s fight near the buses after school. An incident report obtained by the Herald-Journal in Spartanburg said the two assistant principals were…

Tuition at Clemson going up

CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) – It’s going to cost more to get an education at Clemson starting this fall. The school’s board of trustees Friday approved a 1% tuition increase for in-state undergraduate students, and a 3.8% increase for out-of-state students. That means tuition for in-state undergraduate students will rise $75 a semester to $7,560. Yearly tuition for out-of-state students will…

Lesbian couple sues over South Carolina’s foster care waiver

by MEG KINNARD Associated Press

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina is again at the center of federal litigation spawned by a waiver allowing a state-contracted foster care agency to deny services to same-sex and non-Christian families. A lawsuit filed in federal court Thursday accuses the state and federal governments of discriminating against a lesbian couple by rejecting them as foster parents. Eden Rogers and Brandy…