In the past seven years, the Air Force has flown its C-17s hard, "burning up" the cargo jets faster than military planners expected, a top Air Force general says. Pilots routinely drop C-17s into gut-wrenching dives to reach war-zone landing strips.
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Marine Capt. Warren A. Frank was killed last week while distributing humanitarian aid in a province north of Baghdad, becoming the 13th Citadel graduate to die in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Frank, 26, who grew up in the Cincinnati area, died Nov. 25. He was a member of the Class of 2004.
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After more than a year of preparations, the Port of Charleston on Monday required that anyone coming onto its facilities unescorted carry a new federal identification badge.
And despite the potential for mayhem from maritime workers showing up without the ID card, fewer than 3 percent of them did.
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CLEMSON — If Tyler Grisham has only one regret about his Clemson career it's that he has played just six games with Dabo Swinney as the Tigers head coach. Swinney, 39, officially had the interim tag removed from his title and became the 25th head coach in Clemson history Monday afternoon, replacing Tommy Bowden, who stepped down under heavy pressure on Oct. 13.
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The economic downturn has forced Charleston Stage, one of South Carolina's largest professional theater companies, to let go three full-time production and administrative employees and cut pay by 6 percent for the remaining 10 staff members.
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