April Santana

1 week ago | postandcourier.com | Chloe T. Barlow |April Santana

LEXINGTON — For weeks, Victor Zayas has been accompanying families too scared to go to the grocery store. As a leader in the local Hispanic community — a population that has more than quadrupled since 2000 — he’s working to calm the fear surging through his community since immigration enforcement ramped up under President Trump. In Lexington County, deputies aren’t conducting “street-level” operations.

1 week ago | postandcourier.com | April Santana

COLUMBIA — Following the events of 9/11, in 2005 Congress passed the Real ID act which granted the federal government the ability to set standards for driver’s licenses. It set minimum security requirements for license use for official purposes like boarding a plane or entering a federal facility or military base. The official deadline has shifted over the past decade, and now is May 7. It's not likely to change again.

2 weeks ago | postandcourier.com | April Santana

COLUMBIA — Zoe Klein was waiting to cross a busy downtown intersection with a group of fellow University of South Carolina students on April 2 when a pickup truck slammed into a motorcycle. The students tossed their backpacks on the ground ran past cars and toward the injured motorcyclist at the busy intersection of Assembly and Blossom streets. “It was just a sense of emergency,” said Klein, who was one of the first students to call 911 after the crash.

3 weeks ago | aikenstandard.com | April Santana

'Someone else's life was in danger.' USC students rushed to help classmate who died in hit-and-run. University of South Carolina students mourn the death of business major Nate Baker following a car accident on April 2. The driver failed to yield when turning.

3 weeks ago | postandcourier.com | April Santana

COLUMBIA — A stream of University of South Carolina students hugged and cried in front of a flower-covered memorial at one corner of a dangerous intersection, the site of a hit-and-run crash that took the life of Nate Baker. Some left messages on the sidewalk in chalk, writing about memories and love for their late classmate and friend.