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Brave Baby is South Carolina's next best shot at indie music fame. The sweeping synth textures and punchy hooks point to bands like Passion Pit or Local Natives, but the Charleston outfit outstrips both in its capacity to build breezy melodies into huge pop explosions.

Brick Mansions The now deceased Paul Walker kicks one last batch of cinematic ass in this over-the-top crime thriller.

That evidence was found in a high cave on Pinnacle Point on the southern coast of South Africa, where early humans fled to escape Pleistocene climate change.

Kristian Niemi might hail from Minneapolis, but his soul is Southern. Case in point: His restaurant, opening Monday, April 28, is named Bourbon, is located on Columbia, South Carolina's now-bustling Main Street , and boasts the largest bourbon selection in Columbia.

Bills for power used during South Carolina's two bouts with cold temperatures and snow are hitting mailboxes across the Bills for power used during our two bouts with cold temperatures and snow are hitting mailboxes across the Midlands and the price is high.

Columbia, SC - Columbia City Council is looking at a proposed ordinance that would target specific parks within the city.

The South Carolina Railroad Museum in Winnsboro will run a special Mother's Day Brunch Train on Sunday May 11. Brunch will be served on the Museum's dining car.

Two rare wolf pups born this month at the Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge in South Carolina are so popular with biologists that they've been named after comedian Stephen Colbert and U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell.

Archaeologist Chester DePratter stands by the site of Camp Asylum, the Civil War-era prison in Columbia, S.C. The site will soon be cleared to make room for a mixed-use development.

In May, a House Oversight and Government Reform panel will convene for a hearing focused on the local legislation, according to Del.

What is NashiCon? It's Japanese anime, cosplay, comics and much more. The convention was held April 19-20 at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center.

Columbia, SC - Columbia Police Chief Skip Holbrook attended his first City of Columbia budget workshop Tuesday afternoon.

Aidyn Delorme, 6, left busts a dance move with his mom Danielle Valero, right in his bedroom at their Langley home Monday April 21, 2014.

The stern letter Mayor Vincent Gray sent to the Secret Service following a series of early March street closures earned the city's law enforcement leaders a sit-down with the agency.

Regional less-than-truckload carrier Southeastern Freight Lines has promoted Kerry Stritt to vice president of fleet services, based in Columbia, SC.

Dr. Curtis Worthington goes over the Surgical Safety Checklist with nurses Jennifer Dunlap and Anna Angle before operating on a patient Thursday morning at Roper Hospital.

Shadows cross the lawn at the Drayton Hall on the Ashley River outside of Charleston, S.C., in April 2010.

The June primary election is right around the corner, and Richland County lawmakers are working to make sure there's not a repeat of the 2012 general election.

Why was a man accused of a home invasion in West Columbia allowed to be out on the streets in the first place? That's the question some are asking in the case of Nathaniel Hunter, a man with a long criminal history and someone who also happened to be out on bond in a murder case.

The first new state highway signs directing travelers to South Carolina's rural attractions or working farms will be installed near Columbia, on Wadmalaw Island and in Colleton County by month's end.