Winthrop University News

Barack Obama's push to revamp the nation's health care system is getting the cold shoulder from Southerners, according to a new poll by Winthrop University.

Rock Hill and Winthrop University will partner to create what they call a "college town action plan" that identifies ways to enliven the areas surrounding campus.

More than 20,000 children and teens in York County abuse drugs or alcohol, some beginning as early as age 10, according to a new study by the city of Rock Hill.

Laura Leigh Todd is a semi-finalist in an online essay contest. She entered an essay she wrote about a trip she took to New York City.

Francis Marion University will host 138 Teacher Cadets from 12 area high schools for Teacher Cadet College Day, Wednesday, Nov.

As the nation eases out of a recession that has crippled the business world over the past two years, many companies soon will start to think about hiring again.

When Cameron Bunce was a freshman at Winthrop University four years ago, his yellow mountain bike was one of four chained to the single rack in front of the Rutledge Building.

Lynn Stephenson was remembered Thursday as a leader in many facets of Rock Hill civic life.

A community walk against violent crime in Rock Hill is planned for Saturday, beginning at the Emmett Scott Center on Crawford Road and ending at the City Hall Plaza with several speakers.

A fifth-grade girl in a developing country would walk a third of her life to get to water, CROP Walk organizer the Rev.

South Carolina's best teachers gathered Tuesday at the Aiken County Career and Technology Center as part of leadership seminars being held over the next month.

There are swine flu cases all across the country, but the southeast region--including the Carolinas has the highest swine flu rate in the nation according to the Centers for Disease Control.

Two new programs will help York Technical College students transfer "seamlessly" to Winthrop University, officials from both schools said.

They till the soil, plant the garden and reap the harvest, but the gardeners that tend the Plant a Row garden on the Anne Springs Close Greenway never take home the fruits of their labors.

Voters can go to the polls today to cast ballots in the Rock Hill City Council's only contested fall election.

On Friday, Oct.30, Burry Bookstore is hosting author and ghost storyteller Tally Johnson from 4 until 5:30 p.m. He will be signing copies of his new book Ghosts of the Pee Dee, and sharing some of his favorite ghost tales about the surrounding community.

Just because their halls are full of experts on strategy doesn't mean Charlotte-area graduate business schools have skirted the recession.

Incumbent Jim Reno faces a challenge from Hugh Haynsworth for the Rock Hill City Council's Ward 6 seat, which represents older neighborhoods around Winthrop University and along Anderson Road.

In the future that Mark Herring sees, college students don't spend hundreds of dollars on stacks of thousand-page books they cram in backpacks and lug around campus.

'This is a forum on health care reform, not a debate,' Winthrop University associate professor of health care management Michael Matthews said as he kicked off a discussion on overhauling the American health industry.