Clemson University

The following South Aiken High School seniors and a few underclassmen were recognized at an Awards Night ceremony on Thursday: --Most Outstanding Students as listed -- Laura Bickford (science), Daniel Faison (math), Rachel Beeson (math team, social...

Cigarettes could go up in smoke on the University of South Carolina campus soon. The state's flagship university is contemplating a campus-wide tobacco ban that would cover nearly 40,000 students, faculty and staff as well as thousands of football...

Horry-Georgetown Technical College will host more than 150 students from six area high schools Thursday for Agriculture Day. This is the 14th year the college has hosted the event for students to learn about careers in forestry and wildlife, and golf...

The effort to preserve the historic Hitchcock Woods is an intricate, expensive endeavor, but it's one that many believe is priceless. Over the years, local government, state agencies and scholars have all combined their resources to help find a way to...

Deborah Boogher always likes to hear about missing loved ones who are found alive and return to their families. She said it's wonderful that three Ohio women, who were kidnapped and held hostage for 10 years, were alive and able to get away from their...

For golfer Marisa Messana, the process of finding the perfect college turned out to be as challenging and rewarding as sinking a birdie putt on the final hole to win a tournament. Messana, 17, a junior at American Heritage in Plantation, where she is...

Georgetown County Emergency Management will host five hurricane preparedness workshops in June, open and free to all residents. Those who attend the events "will learn about the things that every person who lives on the coast, and near the coast,...

While Jennifer Clay was at home taking an online exam for her business law class, a proctor a few hundred miles away was watching her every move. Using a webcam mounted in Clay's Los Angeles apartment, the monitor in Phoenix tracked how frequently her...

The Precocious Tots of Finland: A University of Kansas professor and two co-authors, in research in a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Finance, found that children age 10 and under substantially outperformed their parents in earnings from stock trading...

The Aiken County Softball Umpires Association has recently given a pair of area softball players $1,000 Barry H. Johnson Memorial Scholarships. Brielle Busbee of Wagener-Salley High School and Aubry Harmon of South Aiken High School were the...

The University of South Carolina will start an economic-development office in July, seeking to broaden its reach beyond academics. USC will join Clemson University and the College of Charleston among S.C. public colleges that operate economic-...

The gig: Christopher Thornberg is founding partner of Beacon Economics, a Los Angeles-based economics consulting firm. Since its founding in 2007, Beacon has provided economic analysis and forecasting for cities, counties and corporate clients. He...