A big announcement from MCG Health, late Wednesday afternoon…Don Snell has resigned as president and CEO, effective at the end of the month.

According to a press release from Paine College, George Bradley, president of Paine College, has been awarded the Alumni Achievement Award by the Iowa State University College of Human Sciences. The award was established in 1992 to recognize alumni for meritorious service and/or distinguished achievements of College of Human Sciences graduates in areas such as business and industry, education, family and consumer sciences, and health. He will be recognized at a university-wide ceremony on Oct. 17th.

Workers at the Greer, South Carolina BMW plant marked the plant’s 15th anniversary this week. The plant has grown from about 600 employees in 1994 to about 5,000 workers.

A federal audit warns a historically black college in South Carolina must take extra steps to remain financially viable. The State reported Monday that a U.S. Education Department audit warns that Benedict College in Columbia ended the last fiscal year in a weakened financial state.

The president of a South Carolina technical college has been suspended after an audit. ‘The Times and Democrat’ of Orangeburg reported Tuesday that Denmark Technical College President Dr. John K. Waddell has been suspended without pay.

The United States and Russia say they are resuming military cooperation suspended after Russia invaded its smaller neighbor Georgia last year. The expected announcement came Monday, as President Barack Obama and Russian president Dmitry Medvedev met for their first summit in Moscow.

The “Mended Hearts” are a group of men and women who have gone through heart surgeries…survived…and lived to help others by offering support and community service. It turns out, a local chapter, in Aiken…is the best in the whole country. That’s right, out of 256 chapters all over America, the Aiken chapter was named number one in the nation.

The “Mended Hearts” are a group of men and women who have gone through heart surgeries…survived…and lived to help others by offering support and community service. It turns out, a local chapter, in Aiken…is the best in the whole country. That’s right, out of 256 chapters all over America, the Aiken chapter was named number one in the nation.

Southern Baptist leaders are asking members to put aside their squabbles over political and social issues when they meet next week in Kentucky. The two-day Southern Baptist Convention begins Tuesday in Louisville.

The official manual of South Carolina’s Legislature continues to label some of the state’s former politicians as “Negro” or “scalawag” - apparent remnants of resentment over Reconstruction that no one has bothered to change.

A Clemson University official says the school could be facing a budget deficit of up to $41 million and more cuts are expected for the 2009-2010 fiscal year ahead.

The University of South Carolina has received the largest research award in school history, a $12.5 million federal grant to set up a research center on alternative fuels.

Help may be on the way for tenants facing evictions because of foreclosures. Sometimes, landlords do not tell renters their home is facing foreclosure. Count on WJBF News Channel 6’s Fraendy Clervaud for the story.

Savannah River Site is set to get more than a billion dollars for projects that’ll produce an estimated 3,000 jobs over two-and-a-half year period. WJBF News Channel 6’s Paige Tucker has more.

The University of Arkansas System board has picked the president of the Medical College of Georgia to take over Arkansas’ only medical school.