COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- Strom Thurmond Jr. says he is ready to meet his mixed-race half sister, whose relationship to the family was kept secret by his father for nearly eight decades. Essie Mae ...

JOHNSTON — Get ready to go under the sea with the talented cast and crew of Strom Thurmond Theatre as tickets for its spring production of the beloved Disney classic “The Little Mermaid, Jr.” are now ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - There's a new Strom in the Thurmond family.U.S. Attorney J. Strom Thurmond, Jr. and his wife, Heather, have a son, James Strom Thurmond, III.The baby weighed eight pounds, six ...

The retired California educator who came forward last year as the biracial daughter of the late U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond received an honorary doctor of education degree Friday. Essie Mae ...

EDGEFIELD, S.C. -- It was a century ago -- a year before the Wright brothers made their famous flight -- that U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond was born in this small farming town amid the rolling hills on the ...

Sen. Strom Thurmond took a long steam bath to dehydrate his body for what he was about to do on a sticky August night in 1957. The Civil Rights Act was about to pass and Thurmond, a Democrat from ...