A 20-year-old collegian who suffered a life-threatening head injury at a Vermont horse show is showing signs of improvement in an Albany, New York, hospital. Victoria Middleton, of Marietta, Georgia, was hurt Friday at the Vermont Summer Festival horse show in East Dorset when her horse got spooked and Middleton was knocked to the ground.

A member of the University of South Carolina equestrian team has been critically injured in an accident at a stable in Vermont. The school says junior Victoria Middleton was hit in the head with a rail over the weekend when the horse she was bathing got scared and broke the fencing in Bennington, Vt.

The South Carolina Highway Patrol has created a new team of troopers to crack down on drunken driving just in time for the long holiday weekend.

Congratulations to a team from Fort Gordon. The team came in first place in the first annual Brian Littrell Healthy Heart Club Golf Tournament that was held Monday, in Alpharetta.

Must work holidays? Yes. Must work weekends? Yes. Must work nights? Yes. But the Greenville Drive, a Class A minor league baseball team, will be looking for up to 200 seasonal workers at a job fair next month.

Two-time Olympic distance star Zola Budd Pieterse has joined the Coastal Carolina track program as a volunteer assistant. The school announced the move Thursday.