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 ...

An upcoming state park is set to double the number of spots where the public can swim in the 48,000-acre Midlands lake.

Strom Thurmond’s moral ... Dodgers’ President and General Manager Branch Rickey met with Jackie Robinson and told him he would be the man who’d break Major League Baseball’s color barrier.

Because the state had limited resources in the years after the Civil War and already had three colleges, members of the General Assembly ... bears the name of Strom Thurmond, the South Carolina ...

(for James) Strom Thurmond, 59, one of the Senate ... Today. Thurmond is a major general in the Army Reserve. After the war, Thurmond returned to South Carolina where, in 1946, he ran for ...

In a 1995 letter to Republican Senator Strom ... written by Army Major Seneca Peña-Collazo while he was at the School of ...

On Sunday, the U.S. Army Cyber Center of Excellence and Fort Eisenhower Commanding General sought and gained ... Harlem, and J. Strom Thurmond Dam. Richmond County: Augusta, Hephzibah, Riverwood ...

Strom Thurmond of South Carolina ... Field, was a former Confederate Army officer and attorney general of Virginia. Hiram Johnson was reelected governor in 1914, moved to the Senate as a ...

Strom Thurmond ... to Senator Thurmond and to the entire staff during his tenure was unwavering and renowned,” read a resolution passed this year by the South Carolina General Assembly shortly ...