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A police officer watches as participants of the fifth annual Cocky Trot 5K run in both directions on Key Road on April 25, 2026. Officers and volunteers were stationed all along the route and ...

A dream weekend unfolded at Founders Park as 12-year-old Gabriel Lyons of Lexington stepped into the world of University of South Carolina baseball. Gabriel, who lives with autism, was given a ...

Women's basketball is no small attraction at the University of South Carolina — the school team has won three of the last nine national championships and has led the nation in attendance for 12 ...

Last spring, Columbia participated in its first City Nature Challenge. Nearly 103,000 people participated in the international campaign meant to help find, document and share urban wildlife, with ...

When third-year operations and supply chain and entrepreneurship student Zack Coetzee started investigating rideshare safety, he found an alarming fact. Over the course of five years, sexual assault ...

South Carolina baseball (22-23, 7-14 SEC) won its second Southeastern Conference series of the season, beating the Kentucky Wildcats (27-15, 9-12 SEC) twice at Founders Park over the weekend. The ...

All was normal Friday morning at Meadow Glen Middle School for Gabriel Lyons, a 12-year-old boy from Lexington, South Carolina. Then he noticed a limousine circling the building. Arriving to pick up ...

For the past 20 years, Columbians have celebrated New Orleans culture at the Rosewood Crawfish Festival. Attendees have the opportunity to enjoy fresh crawfish, live music, art vendors and family ...

South Carolina's softball team took two of three games against the No. 11 Texas A&M Aggies in a conference win at Beckham Field over the weekend. The Gamecocks captured a 3-1 win Friday night, falling ...

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