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Saturday was graduation day at Allen University in Columbia.

SNAPSHOTS from Allen University's commencement

Find full coverage of the class of 2013: photos, snapshots, stories, & videos.

Irmo's head coach Phil Savitz hugs Ben Hinson (10) after his team beat Lexington in the Class 4A Boys Soccer State Championship Friday night in Gilbert.

Savitz leads Irmo to state championship

Story, photos, video of Phil Savitz' from last game as soccer coach at Irmo High.

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Crime

Pair charged with aiding driver in fatal Elgin accident

Two men face charges in connection with aiding a driver in the March 1 hit-and-run death of an Elgin man, the S.C. Highway Patrol reported Saturday.

SC Politics

Ted Vick

The Buzz: A new first at the SC State House?

State Rep. Ted Vick’s second DUI arrest in a year came in a place that is hard enough to drive around without having a couple glasses of wine – the S.C. State House parking garage.

Sports

Lexington's Adam Yonge (3) nearly makes a goal in the first half of the the Class 4A Boys Soccer State Championship Saturday night in Gilbert.

Savitz leads Irmo to state soccer championship in his last game at school

Yellow Jackets beat rival Lexington on penalty kicks in longtime coach’s finale 24 minutes ago

Business

Restaurateur, Kristian Niemi of Rosso likes to use Cherokee Purple tomatoes in his cooking. The Tasty Tomato Festival. The State talks with various people in the Columbia food industry about their favorite heirloom tomatoes.

Restaurateur jazzes up Columbia’s food scene

One of Columbia’s leading restaurateurs wants to give Main Street a shot of Bourbon.

Living

"Le grand C" Compagnie XY Portés acrobatiques

Spoleto Festival USA’s talking points

Here are the performances, including “Le Grand C” by Compagnie XY, that Spoleto patrons will be talking about

Opinion

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Scoppe: Ethics reform: At a crossroads

A YEAR AFTER political scandals launched a cluster of competing study panels and catapulted ethics reform to the top of the 2012 campaign agenda, the Legislature has reached a critical crossroads. What happens in the ...

Military

Communication officers, Capt. Pierre Glover and Capt. Julian Milligan prepare to delegate and assign tasks to other response teams as part of the disaster simulation. They are tasked with coordinating the effort with civil authorities. This month, the S.C. National Guard participate in a NORAD and USNORTHCOM sponsored exercise that focuses on Defense Support of Civil Authorities (DSCA). Ardent Sentry 13 is an exercise that involves multi state response to a simulated category 3 hurricane and the fallout involved in that storm including a hazardous material spill. Guardsmen gather at the S.C. National Guard Joint Operations Center in Columbia to be briefed and receive their orders in their mobilization.

SC National Guard scrambles to handle big disasters

Four-day military exercise puts 1,500 S.C. National Guard members in intense simulation of potentially disastrous situations.

Nation/World

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad speaks during an interview with the Argentine newspaper Clarin and the Argentine state news agency Telam, in Damascus, Syria on Saturday, May 18, 2013. Assad said in the interview he won't step down before elections and that the United States has no right to interfere in his country's politics, raising new doubts about a U.S-Russian effort to get Assad and his opponents to negotiate an end to the country's civil war.

Syrian troops push into strategic rebel-held town

Syrian troops pushed into a rebel-held town near the Lebanese border on Sunday, fighting house-to-house and bombing from the air as President Bashar Assad tried to strengthen his grip on a strategic strip of land running from the capital to the Mediterranean... 11 minutes ago

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