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In this Oct. 10, 2015, file photo, Missouri running back Russell Hansbrough, center, fights his way past Florida's Nick Washington, left, and Jordan Sherit, right, during an NCAA college football game in Columbia, Mo. Some Missouri football players announced Saturday night, Nov. 7, 2015, on Twitter that they will not participate in team activities until the university president, Tim Wolfe, is removed from office. The statement from the athletes of color was tweeted out Saturday by several members of the football team, including Hansbrough. (AP Photo/L.G. Patterson. File)

University of Missouri protests grow after athletes jump in

By Summer Ballentine and Alan Scher Zagier - Associated Press

In this Oct. 10, 2015, file photo, Missouri running back Russell Hansbrough, center, fights his way past Florida's Nick Washington, left, and Jordan Sherit, right, during an NCAA college football game in Columbia, Mo. Some Missouri football players announced Saturday night, Nov. 7, 2015, on Twitter that they will not participate in team activities until the university president, Tim Wolfe, is removed from office. The statement from the athletes of color was tweeted out Saturday by several members of the football team, including Hansbrough. (AP Photo/L.G. Patterson. File)

Missouri students, athletes pressure leadership over racial incidents on campus

By Summer Balentine and Alan Scher Zagier - Associated Press

Elizabeth Fadoju

ELIZABETH FADOJU: How I snuck into Columbia Dental

By Elizabeth Fadoju

Firefighters evacuate Eliza Linen by boat from her home in the Dunbar Community of Georgetown, S.C., Friday, Oct. 9, 2015. A week after the heavy rains first began, some South Carolina residents are still evacuating and others are stacking up sandbags for more possible flooding even as the nation's top security official prepares to inspect the damage firsthand. (Jason Lee/The Sun News via AP)

Rain resumes as South Carolina recovers from massive flood

By Adam Beam and Jeffrey Collins - Associated Press

Jeanni Adame rides in her boat as she checks on neighbors seeing if they want to evacuate in the Ashborough subdivision near Summerville, S.C., after many of their neighbors left, Monday, Oct. 5, 2015. South Carolina is still struggling with flood waters due to a slow moving storm system. (AP Photo/Mic Smith)

Despite sunny forecast, South Carolina ordeal far from over

By Jeffrey Collins and Emery P Dalesio - Associated Press

A woman walks down a flooded sidewalk toward an open convenience store in Charleston, S.C., Sunday, Oct. 4, 2015. President Barack Obama declared a state of emergency in South Carolina and ordered federal aid to bolster state and local efforts as flood warnings remained in effect for many parts of the East Coast through Sunday. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

South Carolina flood: Door-to-door searches, swamped roads

By Seanna Adcox and Jeffrey Collins - Associated Press

Jordan Bennett, of Rock Hill, S.C., paddles up to a flooded store in Columbia, S.C., Sunday, Oct. 4, 2015. The rainstorm drenching the U.S. East Coast brought more misery Sunday to South Carolina, cutting power to thousands, forcing hundreds of water rescues and closing many roads because of floodwaters. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

South Carolina faces historic flooding as hundreds rescued from water

By Seanna Adcox and Jeffrey Collins - Associated Press

This 1986 file photo provided by NASA shows the crew of the space shuttle Challenger. From left are Ellison Onizuka, Mike Smith, Christa McAuliffe, Dick Scobee, Greg Jarvis, Ron McNair and Judith Resnik. (AP Photo/NASA) ** FILE **

Challenger, Columbia wreckage on public display for 1st time

By Marcia Dunn - Associated Press

Roddy Bottum

Roddy Bottum interview: Faith No More band back with ‘Sol Invictus’ album, tour

By Keith Valcourt - Special to The Washington Times

Debris from a F-16 fighter jet and plane collision scatter the ground near Moncks Corner, S.C., Tuesday, July 7, 2015. People aboard the smaller Cessna were killed, and the plane was completely destroyed, National Transportation Safety Board spokesman Peter Knudson said. (WCIV-TV via AP)

2 bodies found from collision of plane, F-16 jet

By Susanne M. Schafer - Associated Press

South Carolina's capital of Columbia is emblematic of the state's struggle between history and present. The battle to remove the Confederate flag from the statehouse grounds remains heated in the wake of the brutal slayings of Rep. Clementa Pinckney and several others at a historic black church in Charleston. (Photographs by Ed Rampell/Special to The Washington Times)

Columbia, South Carolina, offers unique mix of Confederacy, culture, cuisine

By Ed Rampell — Special to The Washington Times - The Washington Times

Joe Trohman, from left, Patrick Stump, Andy Hurley, on drums, and Pete Wentz of the musical group Fall Out Boy perform at the MTV Movie Awards at the Nokia Theatre on Sunday, April 12, 2015, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Matt Sayles/Invision/AP)

Pete Wentz: The second coming of Fall Out Boy

By Keith Valcourt — Special to The Washington Times

A Confederate flag flies next to the Alabama Confederate Memorial on the grounds of the Alabama Capitol building in Montgomery, Ala., Monday, June 22, 2015. (Albert Cesare/The Montgomery Advertiser via AP) NO SALES; MANDATORY CREDIT

SC lawmakers overwhelmingly vote to debate Confederate flag

By SEANNA ADCOX and JEFFREY COLLINS and JONATHAN DREW - Associated Press

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Don Dokken still rockin’ metal after guitarist fights, knife encounter

By Keith Valcourt - Special to The Washington Times

Sen. Kirsten E. Gillibrand, New York Democrat (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Lawsuit alleges Columbia ‘mattress girl’ made rape claim after being scorned

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Dr. Mehmet Oz, vice chairman and professor of surgery, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington in this June 17, 2015, file photo. Ten top physicians want Columbia University to remove the celebrity doctor from his medical faculty position. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke, File)

Dr. Oz faces calls for dismissal from Columbia surgery faculty over ‘quack treatments’

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

FILE - Students participating in rush pass by the Phi Kappa Psi house at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va., in this Jan. 15, 2015 file photo. Now the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism is about to explain how it all went so wrong. The school's analysis of the editorial process that led to the November 2014 publication of &quot;A Rape on Campus&quot; will be released online at 8 p.m. EDT Sunday April 5, 2015. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

Retracted Rolling Stone story is rare demerit for its writer

By GEOFF MULVIHILL - Associated Press

Washington Nationals starting pitcher Max Scherzer works in the first inning of an exhibition spring training baseball game against the Miami Marlins, Tuesday, March 10, 2015, in Jupiter, Fla. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

Two tone: Max Scherzer’s playfulness, intensity may be final piece for Nationals

By Todd Dybas - The Washington Times

In this Jan. 21, 2014, photo, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., chair of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel, is interviewed by The Associated Press about her proposal to let military prosecutors rather than commanders make decisions on whether to prosecute sexual assaults in the military, in her Capitol Hill office in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Kirsten Gillibrand blasted for decision to invite Columbia ‘mattress girl’ to SOTU

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times