Tut Underwood
Reporter, ProducerTut Underwood is producer of South Carolina Focus, a weekly news feature. A native of Alabama, Tut graduated from Auburn University with a BA in Speech Communication. He worked in radio in his hometown before moving to Columbia where he received a Master of Mass Communications degree from the University of South Carolina, and worked for local radio while pursuing his degree. He also worked in television. He was employed as a public information specialist for USC, and became Director of Public Information and Marketing for the South Carolina State Museum. His hobbies include reading, listening to music in a variety of styles and collecting movies and old time radio programs.
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South Carolina Public Radio has served the state and the nation with quality programming for a half-century.
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The possibilities for studies opened by images from the new James Webb Space Telescope are exciting astronomers and space researchers.
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For the third consecutive year, champion cornhole players have gathered in Rock Hill to determine who's the best.
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The practice of writing in the margins of books, or marginalia, goes back centuries.
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Millions of paper tax returns piled up while the IRS was out of the office during the worst of COVID, and the agency has yet to catch up.
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Experts believe inflation may be at its peak, but it will be year's end before relief is in sight.
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A College of Charleston paleontologist and his colleagues have hypothesized that there were three, not one, species of Tyrannosaur ruling the age of dinosaurs.
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A Chicago donor has given USC's Cooper Library a collection of William Shakespeare's plays published in 1664.
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On April 21, 1972, Charles M. Duke Jr. of Lancaster, South Carolina, became the 10th man of 12 in history to set his foot on the surface of the moon.
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The Doolittle Raid was America's first strike back at Japan after the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, and it had its beginnings in Columbia, South Carolina.