A journey’s end
Just before 1 p.m. Thursday, the lights of a Dessault Falcon 20 jet broke through the dark grey clouds above the runway at the Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport, ending Geoff Whitsitt’s…
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Goodbye Green Monster
Jeff Zaglin offers a simple explanation for the piles of combat boots, helmets and the other military supplies that have accumulated inside the building at the corner of Main and…
Milliken: The Man
Roger Milliken once told Spartanburg Mayor Bill Barnet about a garden he visited in England. Its curator told him the man who planted the garden never got to see the…
Homeless, nobody’s choice
One is a former university professor with graying temples and a humble smile who says he watched helplessly as his career slipped away when he became depressed and turned to…
Bi-Lo to use $350 million to rebuild
Less than one month after another supermarket chain tried to buy it, Mauldin-based Bi-Lo will reorganize itself using a $350 million cash infusion. The chain’s officials filed a reorganization plan…
Pilot, passengers on the mend
It wasn’t the birthday Jimmy Holliday expected, but he was happy with it just the same. Holliday’s son Derrick was one of three men injured last week when the King…
Of Children and milestones
Graduation, marriage, giving birth, children hang-gliding from the nest: no matter how routine, how commonly faced, the personal reality is an original experience.
Loving Logan
Click here to read more medical neglect in South Carolina Six nurses and a doctor were trying to find a vein to put a catheter into the baby. His veins…
Hollywood destroys the world
Escapism where no one escapes; how’s that for intriguing cultural overtones.
Palmetto leader retires
Leon Patterson and Paul “Bill” Stringer joined the Army the same day, trained together, flew to Vietnam together, served together and flew home together. Then, they worked side by side…
The life and turbulent times of Governor Mark Sanford
Click here for a breakdown of how the state plane has been used Click here to view flights during which the state plane flew without passengers Flight Time…
Then there was hope
Little natural light crept into the common room as Sgt. Mary Miller unlocked the front door to Sigma prison dorm. The 6-and-a-half-foot-tall ceilings hovered, as oppressive as efficient at keeping…
NAACP boycott still at work here
It’s been 1o years since the NAACP called for economic sanctions against the state because the Confederate flag flew above the South Carolina Statehouse. And for a decade, folks on…
Stepping down?
Click here to read the expense report from Gov. Sanford’s 2008 trip to Brazil. Click here to read a statement from the Department of Commerce. One thing political experts…
Greenville native, wife on downed Air France Jet
He laughed often. He loved his wife, whom he counted as his closest friend. And when it came to helping out, he was more often than not on the giving…