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The new Maxcy Gregg Pool opens this weekend, with a dive-in movie event Friday night and public swimming on Saturday.

Columbia’s new Maxcy Gregg pool ready for summer swimmers

Standing on the deck of the new Maxcy Gregg pool, Lori Petrimoulx smiles as she watches dozens of...

Families crowded the SCE&G South Recreation site at the Lake Murray dam. They enjoyed the sun, swimming and cooking out to celebrate Memorial Day.

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The following will be closed in observance of Memorial Day.

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Columbia police investigating death of child

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SC congressman grills IRS officials

An Internal Revenue Service official tried to evoke her Fifth Amendment rights in a U.S. House Oversight Committee hearing Wednesday, but she could...

Sports

N.C. State catcher Jake Fincher (30) (right) greets teammate Grant Clyde (22) after Clyde connected for a home run in the second inning to tie the Wolfpack's game against Clemson 1-1 on Wednesday May 22, 2013 during the ACC Baseball Tournament at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park in Durham, N.C.

Efficient Wolfpack top Clemson in ACC baseball opener

N.C. State excels in all aspects of game in 6-3 victory

Business

File: John Gravely of Atlanta plays with his 6-year-old daughter, Taylor, during the 2012 Memorial Day weekend in the surf near 45th Avenue North in Myrtle Beach.

Low gas prices fueling Memorial Day travel along SC coast

Prepare for busy roads and beaches this weekend along the Grand Strand as bikers, those celebrating Memorial Day and others just looking to get away flock to the area for the long holiday weekend.

Living

Tristan Sturrock in “Mayday Mayday,” a story about Sturrock falling and getting stuck between a garage and a wall. It opens tonight at Emmett Robinson Theatre as part of Spoleto USA 2013..

Distress call becomes art in Spoleto’s ‘Mayday Mayday’

Tristan Sturrock returns to Spoleto Festival USA to share his story that began with a May Day phone call.

Opinion

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Bolton: Columbia voters might have to force referendum on strong mayor

IF COLUMBIA voters want an opportunity to decide whether the city should be run by a full-time mayor, they’re likely going to have to make it happen themselves.

Military

Capt. Joan Queen, commanding officer of Naval Hospital Beaufort, and Scott Isaaks, acting director of the Ralph A. Johnson VA Medical Center in Charleston, are applauded after they cut the ribbon to the Beaufort Naval Hospitals new clinical space on the fourth floor of the hospital on Wednesday. The new clinic will allow the hospital to serve an additional 1,200 patients.

Naval Hospital Beaufort opens new outpatient clinic

Naval Hospital Beaufort and the Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center in Charleston collaborated to open an expanded outpatient clinic Wednesday in the...

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Chart shows 15 fastest-growing large cities

Urban renewal? Big US cities showing strong growth

Urban renewal? New census estimates show that most of the nation's largest cities further enhanced their allure last year, posting strong population growth for a second straight year.

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