Duncan News

Published: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 3:15 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 12:30 a.m. Arms hugged, lips smooched and eyes cried Tuesday afternoon as loved ones bid farewell to Army National Guardsmen in a cold, steady rain.

State Department of Education leaders said they will apply for a portion of $4 billion in federal stimulus money for school reform available to states, and they think they have a shot at getting it.

There is no doubt where the big game in the Big Ten is this weekend as Ohio State travels to Penn State for a battle to stay in the race for the Big Ten championship.

A new federal report shows that more than 16,000 Georgia education jobs were saved or created through stimulus funding.

Many states set achievement standards so low that they can say their students are reading and doing math at their grade level when they haven't truly mastered the subjects, the Education Department asserted Thursday.

Many states declare students to have grade-level mastery of reading and math when they do not, the Education Department reported Thursday.

Polls will be open from 7 a.m.-7 p.m. Nov. 3 for municipal and special purpose district elections.

Issac Bailey, writer and columnist for The Sun News, conducted a live forum Friday with readers about the recent death of Trevor Varinecz, a 16-year-old Carolina Forest High School student who was shot and killed by a school resource officer, Marcus Hughes.

Lenny Macklin made it to 10th grade before having a teacher who looked like him - an African-American male.

Two of the country's top prospects, running back Marcus Lattimore and defensive back Joshua Shaw could end up playing their college football for Big Ten powers Penn State and Ohio State respectively.

If there was any question that receivers Jazz King and Torian Richardson were a bit under the radar as far as recruiting is concerned, that question was answered on a national stage Friday night.

Checking the board - Irvin Goodwin and Melody Brutkiewicz with the South Carolina Employment Security Commission Union Workforce Center check the "Community Ride Share Board." Officials with the Union Workforce Center of the South Carolina Employment Security Commission say opportunities for jobs are increasing, but they are often in areas that ...

Winthrop University plans to use a newly awarded $7 million federal grant to dramatically transform its educator training program while working with struggling area schools to boost teacher quality and student achievement.

An education subcommittee has approved benchmarks for South Carolina's new high-stakes standardized test, the Palmetto Assessment of State Standards.

Authorities in South Carolina have charged two men in the death of a 19-year-old man found dead on the front porch of a house.

Midland Elementary School in Horry County was among 314 schools nationwide named 2009 No Child Left Behind-Blue Ribbon winners today by Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.

Corey Miller and Brandon Willis had all but given up playing college football together.

According to a report on govolsxtra.com , Tennessee secured some important committments for the class of 2010.

The forty Southern Baptist churches composing Greer Baptist Association will gather at Fairview Baptist Church on Sunday evening, September 27 to celebrate fifty years of cooperation in ministry.

A sheriff's deputy working in Spartanburg County fired a shot toward a Georgia man, who was arrested Wednesday after an overnight manhunt in the Duncan area, according to a spokesman for Sheriff Chuck Wright.