COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Faculty and staff from the University of South Carolina are holding a Thanksgiving potluck feast for dozens of international students and scholars. University spokeswoman Megan Sexton says the event is scheduled for 1 p.m. Thursday at the Immaculate Consumption coffee house on Main St. near campus. Sexton says the feast is designed to show the university’s…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The city of Columbia is providing a place for the leftover cooking oil from all those deep-fried turkeys prepared for Thanksgiving. The city’s public works facility is collecting the cooking oil on Friday from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. It will be closed Thanksgiving Day. Columbia officials say they will also conduct the collections next week…
This Thanksgiving marks 23 years for the Interfaith Thanksgiving Day Dinner, sponsored by St. Peter’s Catholic Church and First Baptist Church to help bring good tidings and good food to the community.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina Democrats hope a combination of enthusiasm, a desire to change the direction of the state and more careful vetting of people seeking the party’s nominations will help them make gains next election. Democrats acknowledge they need some wins. All nine statewide offices are run by Republicans, along with eight of the state’s nine congressmen….
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Deputies in Richland County are rounding up gifts for some seniors in need this holiday season. This year, Sheriff Leon Lott says his office is once again putting on Project HOPE, which stands for Helping our Precious Elderly. Starting Friday, people can stop by Lott’s headquarters to pick up an ornament with information on possible gifts…
A Columbia apartment complex goes up in flames Thanksgiving night.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) âone space€one space” South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson is taking the helm of an organization that works to elect more Republicans as state attorneys general across the country. But the first-term prosecutor says he’s also looking forward to working with Democrats on some issues. Earlier this month, Wilson took the helm of the Republican Attorneys General…
Black Friday is the Super Bowl of Shopping. We decided to scour the ads to see what good deals and steals you can find as we launch the holiday shopping season.
A man is dead after authorities say he shot his teenage grandson and then turned the gun on himself.
WALTERBORO, S.C. (AP) — Former presidential candidate Ross Perot is in Walterboro. The Times and Democrat of Orangeburg reports (http://bit.ly/Hj0o7o ) that the billionaire is scheduled to speak at the Veterans Victory House on Monday. Running as an independent, the Texas billionaire won nearly 19 percent of the popular vote in the 1992 presidential general election. Perot founded Electronic Data…
