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Greenville City Council has endorsed the idea of having a veteran’s memorial in the city’s planned signature park now referred to as City Park.

Last weekend, 87 artists participated in the Metropolitan Art Council’s “Flat Out Under Pressure,” a 24-hour two-dimensional art competition whose winners have their work reproduced on recycling bins.

Students at the University of South Carolina in Columbia will pay 3.46 percent more in tuition next school year, and school officials blamed the increase on the state not contributing enough money for higher education.

The National Association of Rail Passengers has scheduled a Rally for Trains event from 10 a.m. to noon at the Greenville Amtrak Station at 1120 Washington St. to protest the White House’s proposed budget that cuts funding for long-distance passenger rail travel.

You’ve already got a 2016 College Football National Championship T-shirt and the commemorative Coke cans.

The Court of Appeals said there was insufficient evidence to convict Greenville businessman and former South Carolina State University board chairman Jonathan Pinson of racketeering and government program theft during his public corruption trial.

Nick Cordileone has spent nearly six years on the road playing Timon in the national tour of Disney’s “The Lion King.” But Father’s Day isn’t acknowledged by a just a phone call or through a mailed gift because his 15-year-old daughter, Hero, has spent the last five years traveling with him full-time.

The Washington Post named the Governor’s School one of this year’s “America’s Most Challenging High Schools.”

The city will be engulfed in near darkness for 2 minutes and 8 seconds beginning at approximately 2:38 p.m.

Furman is one of a number of schools who’ve been compelled to address the now-odious beliefs of its founders and leaders.

The Piano Man

And that’s the way it is — Or is it?

Split personalities

The county’s paying for it, and the city will own it.

Barring a successful petition candidate, Brasington will take the District 4 seat since no Democratic candidate filed to run.