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Rachel Gordin Barnett and Lyssa Kligman Harvey share stories and recipes of the foods that make the South Carolina Jewish table in a new cookbook, "Kugels and Collards: Stories of Food, Family, and Tradition in Jewish South Carolina."

A 14-year-old suspect has been arrested in connection with a weekend shooting over a yearslong squabble that left three teenagers dead and another injured in the capital city of South Carolina, officials said Tuesday.

Authorities say two people killed three teenagers and wounded a fourth in South Carolina's capital city in an escalation of an old quibble over a burglary. Sunday afternoon's shooting happened at an abandoned house where the four teenagers were hanging out.

The city of Columbia and state lawmakers broke ground Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023, on the redevelopment of Finlay Park.

A USC student was shot and killed as he apparently tried to enter the wrong home on his off-campus street in Columbia early Saturday, police said.

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie held a town hall in Columbia July 21 as he seeks the Republican nomination for president in 2024.

Authorities say a store owner in South Carolina charged with murder this week after shooting a 14-year-old boy he wrongly thought stole water has shot at suspected shoplifters two other times in the past eight years and not faced charges. Richland County deputies say 58-year-old Rick Chow got in a fight with a shoplifter in 2018 and shot the man in the leg. They say in 2015, a suspected shoplifter got in a car after Chow tried to stop him and Chow fired several shots at the vehicle after the suspect threatened to shoot him. Chow's lawyer has not commented on Monday's murder charge or the other shootings.

A South Carolina gas station owner has been charged with murder in the death of a 14-year-old boy whom he allegedly chased from the store and shot in the back. Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott says station owner Rick Chow incorrectly suspected that Cyrus Carmack-Belton had shoplifted water from the Shell station. After a verbal confrontation, Carmack-Belton fled and was pursued by Chow's son. Rick Chow joined the chase, armed with a pistol. Lott says Chow fired, striking Carmack-Belton in the back.

Marking 10 years of its artistic residency at the USC School of Music, the chamber group is partnering with Historic Columbia to perform all 16 of Ludwig van Beethoven’s string quartets—and the composer’s visionary Grosse Fuge—across six venues in the capital city.

Sesquicentennial State Park in Columbia gets about 800,000 visitors every year, but park archaeologist Stacey Young said only a few are aware of the history beneath their feet.Sesqui, as many vistors call it, was established as a "whites-only" park by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s as a part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal legislation.But it wasn't always a park. Sesqui has a rich history of being home to different peoples dating back centuries.