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Strom Thurmond High School held its annual graduation at the school’s stadium, honoring the many accomplishments of the 2025 class. The event was not only a celebration for the 154 graduating ...
Registration is now open for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers “Take Kids Fishing Day” that takes place Saturday at J. Strom ...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, a one-time Democratic segregationist who helped fuel the rise of the modern conservative Republican Party in the South, died Thursday. He ...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced that Emergency Relief for Federally Owned Roads (ERFO) has been approved for ...
Thurmond looked up eagerly when Lott declared that his 89-year-old mother “has a crush on Strom.” Laughter flowed, as it did during the predictable jokes about Thurmond’s age. Dole recalled the day in ...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is getting some extra money to help with Hurricane Helene repairs and debris removal around ...
COLUMBIA, S.C. — The biracial daughter of the late Sen. Strom Thurmond defended the former segregationist Tuesday and said the Rev. Al Sharpton "overreacted" upon learning he descends from a ...
New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker is parlaying his marathon 25-hour speech from the Senate floor last month into "Stand," a new book set to be published in November, sparking widespread ...
There, the family befriended figures like the Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond, who garnered more than 80 percent of the vote in their county in 1948, and the archconservative textile magnate Roger ...
Booker's speech broke a record set by Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, a segregationist and southern Democrat who opposed the advance of the Civil Rights Act of 1957, which eventually passed.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WJAR) — An emergency physician is making a silent stand for federal cuts to healthcare by sitting on the State House steps for 25 straight hours. From the front lines to the ...