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LEXINGTON COUNTY, S.C. -- It's a Wednesday afternoon, and members of a cancer support group at Lexington Medical Center are gathered around a conference table talking about "chemo brain," the mental fog patients often have after chemotherapy. Suddenly...

Mary Lapsley Daly came into this world three months early, weighing a little more than two pounds. She would soon be burdened with staph infection and cerebral palsy. Yet her mother calls her God's greatest blessing. As a child, she liked visiting...

Famed rock and country musician Darius Rucker became "Dr. Gamecock" Saturday as the University of South Carolina awarded degrees to graduates of its prestigious Honors College and its College of Arts and Sciences. Rucker, a founding member of the...

Takiya Smith wanted to expand her thriving business. Jill Egbert wanted to earn a degree to better market herself to prospective employers. Jovonn Sumter wanted to prove to himself he could finish college. All three were able to find that -- and more,...

The day after former CIA director Robert Gates went from being a university president to President George W. Bush's Secretary of Defense, he flew to Iraq. There, Gates said Friday, he noticed something about U.S. troops that he always thinks of when...

What do North Carolina's governor, a U.S. Senator, a Grammy-winning recording artist, and one of the NFL's greatest placekickers have in common? Each is a guest speaker Saturday at a college commencement exercise in the Carolinas. It's the biggest day...

The email that arrived on a Saturday morning stunned and excited Tom McNally. "I'm interested in donating $30 million of materials to the University of South Carolina," said the message from W. Graham Arader III, a leading collector of historic maps and...

They are too compassionate to be robots. But according to the people who know Purva and Pooja Choudhari -- aspiring doctors, committed volunteers, science whizzes and soon-to-be University of South Carolina graduates -- the 20-year-old twin sisters...

"The Great Gatsby" returns to the big screen Friday with all its American flamboyance and contradictions. But a University of South Carolina professor says there is as much intrigue and revelation inside author F. Scott Fitzgerald's newly digitized...

Former CIA Director Robert Gates will be among the keynote speakers Friday, as several of the Carolinas' largest universities award diplomas in commencement exercises. This is the biggest weekend of the year for college graduations, with more than three...

The 106th Bethlehem Bach Festival continues through this weekend, highlighting two works not by Bach, but celebratory in their own right. Beethoven's joyous "Choral Fantasy" will be performed 4 p.m. Friday at Packer Memorial Church, followed by Morten...

Saturday's commencement exercise was followed by a reception in the Main Building. Saturday's commencement exercise was followed by a reception in the Main Building. slideshow UNION -- The USC Union Class of 2013 was honored not only as graduates of...