J. E. B. Stuart wrote from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, to his cousin Bettie Hairston, “A few ...

JOHNSTON -- There were a lot of times it all could have gone wrong Tuesday for the Strom Thurmond baseball team. A lost ball in the sun. A ball thrown off a batter's helmet on a sacrifice bunt ...

Mims is a senior at Strom Thurmond High School. The award is presented each year to a high school student exemplifying outstanding community service. It is awarded in the run-up to the Johnston ...

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.

Landmark: A larger-than-life bronze monument to longtime U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond. A nine-foot-tall bronze monument in the likeness of U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond stands at the State House in Columbia.

Earlier this week, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond responded to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s revised budget plan, expressing gratitude for funding priorities that build upon ...

Ronald Dalton Strom, 80, of Haddam, husband of Patricia (Reggazoni) Strom, died Wednesday, April 23, 2025. He was born in Hartford, the son of the late Paul C. and Laura Annie (Dalton) Strom.

Confederate Memorial Day is observed in South Carolina, as well as a few other states. The holiday commemorates Confederate soldiers who died in the Civil War. Observances include battle re ...

He’d worn holes in the Senate floor’s royal-blue carpet, but he had Goggins’d it out, surpassing the record set by the South Carolina senator Strom Thurmond, who filibustered, but failed to ...

Comments piled up like a car crash, showing divisions that remain to this day. “It’s for Confederate Memorial Day, which they conveniently don’t mention.” “Lexington out here making sure ...

Since the killing of George Floyd and the nationwide racial reckoning that blanketed the U.S. after May 25, Virginia has removed the most Confederate symbols — 26 total — in the country.