Columbia

About 35 people, most of whom were in opposition to a potential 7.6% hike in electric rates, spoke at a pair of hearings held by the Public Service Commission of South Carolina.

The city will offer complimentary downtown parking beginning Thursday evening.

The center will house the state's most powerful MRI scanner. The 7-Tesla MRI scanner will provide more precise brain imaging than patients in the state have been able to receive within South Carolina.

The City will host the first in a series of public meetings on April 1.

Longtime U.S. Rep. James Clyburn, who is South Carolina's lone Democrat in Congress, announced Thursday morning that he will run for a potential 18th House term.

Several thousand citizens made their way to Columbia Monday as South Carolina held memorial services in the state's capital city to honor the late Rev. Jesse Jackson.

The late Rev. Jesse Jackson, who died Feb. 17 at age 84, will be memorialized in Columbia March 2 with services at the Statehouse and a local church.

Mount Pleasant native and Gullah Geechee artist Corey Alston's work will stay at the museum. The basket, dubbed Big Percy, is the largest Alston has ever created.

Some 200 people rallied outside the Statehouse in Columbia Friday to lead a protest against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity.

The monks entered the state Jan. 6 and have walked through municipalities like McCormick, Edgefield and Saluda. The group trekked from Lexington to Columbia Jan. 10 on Day 77 of the 120-day, 2,300-mile journey to the nation's capital city.