When exploring the campus of Limestone University, you are surrounded by the school’s new logo and almost every door you pass through denotes its new status.Limestone officially changed its name from college to university on July 1. Soon every sign on campus will bear the university’s new name."It feels like we’ve really accomplished something," President Darrell Parker said Wednesday.Limestone began the process to become a university two ..read more

ATLANTA — John Lewis was mourned, revered and celebrated as an American hero on Thursday at Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church, a sacred place for many of those who helped to shape civil rights history.Three former presidents joined in the eulogies after nearly a week of mourning that took him from his birthplace in Alabama to the nation's capital of Washington to his final resting place in his home of Atlanta."He always believed in preaching the Gospel in word and ..read more

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The biggest, most sophisticated Mars rover ever built — a car-size vehicle bristling with cameras, microphones, drills and lasers — blasted off for the red planet Thursday as part of an ambitious, long-range project to bring the first Martian rock samples back to Earth to be analyzed for evidence of ancient life.NASA's Perseverance rode a mighty Atlas V rocket into a clear morning sky in the world's third and final Mars launch of the summer ..read more

Hiring in earnest is underway at BMW Manufacturing's Spartanburg plant as production resumes following an earlier shutdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic.Staffing firm MAU Workforce Solutions of Greer is holding virtual instant interviews for production, logistics and part-time production jobs that pay from $17.25 to $22 an hour with benefits.Through Friday, virtual instant interview hours will be from 9 to 11:30 a.m. via mau.com/bmw.To get your instant ..read more

New jobless claims last week fell again in Spartanburg County and statewide, the S.C. Department of Employment and Workforce announced Thursday.For the week ending July 25, 12,194 people filed initial first-time claims for unemployment benefits statewide, a decrease of 2,152 initial claims from the previous week.In the last 19 weeks since the start of the pandemic, a total of 697,619 initial claims have been filed statewide.Spartanburg County reported 587 new ..read more

ATLANTA — When John Lewis is mourned, revered and celebrated at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta on Thursday, he will return to a sacred place for many of those who helped to shape civil rights history.The arc of Lewis' legacy of activism will once again be tied to Ebenezer's former pastor Martin Luther King Jr., whose sermons Lewis discovered while scanning the radio dial as a 15-year-old boy growing up in then-segregated Alabama.King continued to inspire ..read more

When John Lewis is mourned, revered and celebrated at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta on Thursday, he will return to a sacred place for many of those who helped to shape civil rights history.The arc of Lewis’ legacy of activism will once again be tied to Ebenezer's former pastor Martin Luther King Jr., whose sermons Lewis discovered while scanning the radio dial as a 15-year-old boy growing up in then-segregated Alabama ..read more

Path and strength of Tropical Storm Isaias unsure as system approaches Florida ..read more

Theaters, arenas, stadiums and other large venues throughout South Carolina will be allowed to reopen starting Monday with severe restrictions that are meant to prevent an increase in COVID-19 infections, Gov. Henry McMaster announced Wednesday.Under the policy outlined during a news conference in Columbia, these venues and events such as festivals and parades will be limited to no more than 250 people, and those who attend will be required to wear masks.Business owners ..read more

GoUpstate will soon have a fresh and bold new look.With our new website design, we will be able to cover the Upstate like never before by being more systematically in line with our regional news partners in Greenville and Anderson. We will also have easy access to publish important nationwide news from USA Today.If you’re not a GoUpstate digital subscriber, we hope these new website enhancements will provide you with plenty of reasons to sign up. We would like to ..read more