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Hanna Satterlee 1. In the House In 2018, Queen City revelers welcomed a fresh New Year's Eve custom: Highlight, a citywide celebration featuring artsy and family-friendly entertainment. Presenting organizations Burlington City Arts and Signal Kitchen Projects aren't letting the COVID-19 pandemic keep them down. They've moved the event to the online platform Run the World, where viewers  can toggle between digital stages to ring in the new year with more than 100 acts starting at 1 p.m. on Thursday, December 31.  Think an interactive dance perfo...

Individuals incarcerated in S.C. Department of Corrections facilities will soon be able to receive bachelor’s degrees at no cost through a historic partnership with Claflin University. In April 2020, Claflin University was selected as a U.S. Department of Education Second Chance Pell Experimental Site, which continues an initiative that began under President Barack Obama to help incarcerated individuals earn university credentials. Healthy Routines, a community-based nonprofit located in Columbia, is also participating in the program that will offer educational programming to incarcerate...

Minute. and now here they were in their mid 40s still telling anybody and everybody including us that they didn't kill old man bob. >> i just walk with the faith and i was just like this is not the end. >> the brothers had turned down any and all deals determined instead to clear their name. they joined every prison program, took every class they could to improve themselves. >> we always took any kind of programs they had to offer. and just held our heads up. >> after 22 years even their family had given up on that. >> had you gotten to the stage where you thought they'll be there for the rest...

Normally you don't pet a service dog because they are working but valerie said it's okay because technically sully is not walking. sully will soon go to the walter read hospital in washington, d.c. where his services will continue helping more veterans. he's two and a half years old, so he's got a lot of contributions to make in the future. thank you for all you do. >> thank you. >> and it's incredible. >> sully was actually trained initially by prisoners, is that right? >> yeah. >> in our prison program and then came to our foundation where i completed the training. >> that's amazing. >> here...

>> for some inmates sny is freedom. the iyp is a small taste of what's to come. after over a decade in the shu, inmate angel chaves looks forward to a more interactive prison program. >> i feel like i got let down by the familia. the situation was, i was doing time for the familia. i've asked for assistance. i'm not going to specify what assistance. i asked for assistance to handle business for me because i was in the business for them. >> sure. >> and they never came through although they said they would. at that point, i felt like, what's the point of this? >> since you've entered the debrie...