| Upstate school launches African American scholarship ECPI university has set aside $4 million in funding for tuition, computers and Wi-Fi access for African Americans in the STEM and health care fields. The school has the third largest graduating class of African American computer science undergraduates in the nation. DHEC warns of increasing COVID-19 cases among youth COVID-19 cases are increasing in young adults and youth in S.C., the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control warned.On Friday, DHEC reported that 4,160, or 18.4%, of the 22,608 confirmed cases in the state were among people ages 21 to 30 | 
When the federal government in March called on American entrepreneurs to create supplies to fight the new coronavirus pandemic, Ralph Hulseman and his team at Hoowaki knew micro surface technology could play a role. They already had explored designing medical swabs.
Pinnacle Financial Partners moved into a new building in Spartanburg after operating for most of the year in a temporary location. The drive-thru opens today and Pinnacle hopes to open the lobby in July if the pandemic threat subsides.
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