After the flood: Learning from past devastation helps prepare for future events
When the historic flood of 2015 hit the Midlands, thousands of residents took to social media to describe what they saw.
Internet safety tips for students
The classrooms of yesteryear are distant memories. Gone are chalkboards, which have made way for smartboards. Even textbooks are slowly being phased out in deference to online curriculums. Modern classrooms are outfitted with digital devices that connect students to the internet. Each of these changes might surprise parents who haven’t stepped foot inside a classroom in decades. A 2017 report from Common Sense Media said that children...
Interstate projects paid with gas-tax-hike revenues: Priority for roads alliance?
On its Facebook page recently, the nonprofit South Carolina Alliance to Fix Our Roads shared the latest state Department of Transportation video touting its work in Spartanburg County with gas-tax-hike revenues.
Florence-Darlington Technical College students study in Germany
Florence-Darlington Technical College (FDTC) is nearing two decades of an exchange partnership with German technical college Berufsbildende Schule (BBS III) in Mainz. The International Program at FDTC launched in 2000, and each spring, German students and instructors visit FDTC and the Southeastern Institute of Manufacturing and Technology (SiMT), and in return, FDTC students and FDTC Marketing instructor Steven Weingartner travel to...
Suspect had bigger role in slaying, DCSO says
The Darlington County Sheriff’s Office has again arrested a Hartsville woman in the May 26 slaying of a Hartsville man who was shot in the Pine Ridge area. Reneka Shane Brown, 26, originally was charged with accessory after the fact in the slaying of Desmond Coe. He was shot outside a Markette convenience store at West Bobo Newsome Highway and West Old Camden Road. Investigators now believe Brown played a much larger role in the case....
Landing on easy street: Sen. Campbell’s airport contract offers generous pay, perks
Longtime state Sen. Paul Campbell gets plenty of perks as the Charleston International Airport director – on top of his growing six-figure salary, according to his current contract released to The Nerve.