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From the HERE City State DeskHUNTINGTON, W.Va. — South Carolina's men's soccer team is one win from its first conference championship match in more than a decade, but it will have to beat a familiar problem to get there. The sixth-seeded Gamecocks (11-5-2) play second-seeded Marshall in the Sun Belt…
From the HERE City State DeskPENSACOLA, Fla. — South Carolina needed less than five minutes to take control of its SEC Tournament quarterfinal, and Georgia never found a way back. The second-seeded Gamecocks beat the 10th-seeded Bulldogs 3-0 on Tuesday to advance to the semifinals, improving to 13-2-3. Georgia finished…
From the HERE City State DeskCOLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina puts its unbeaten start on the line Wednesday night against a Saint Peter's team that has struggled to score but nearly stole each of its last two games. Tipoff at Colonial Life Arena is 7 p.m., with the game on…
From the HERE City State DeskCOLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina keeps climbing. The Gamecocks jumped four places, landing at No. 17 when the playoff selection committee put out its second set of rankings Tuesday night, on the heels of a fourth consecutive Southeastern Conference victory. The latest came Saturday at…
From the HERE City State DeskCOLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina quarterback LaNorris Sellers is now on the short list for one of college football's top individual honors. The senior from Florence was named Tuesday as one of 18 semifinalists for the Maxwell Award, which goes to the best offensive player…
From HERE ColumbiaCOLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina will close its regular-season home schedule under the lights. The Southeastern Conference announced Monday that the 21st-ranked Gamecocks and second-ranked Georgia meet Saturday, Nov. 21, in Columbia, with the opening kick set for 7:30 p.m. Georgia athletics confirmed the same…
From the HERE City National DeskMILWAUKEE — Milwaukee Brewers manager Pat Murphy was voted National League Manager of the Year on Tuesday for the third season in a row, making him the first manager in big-league history to win the Baseball Writers' Association of America award three straight times. Murphy,…
From the HERE City National DeskCHICAGO — Will Venable of the Chicago White Sox is the 2026 American League Manager of the Year, the Baseball Writers' Association of America announced Tuesday night, capping a season in which a club that had lost 100 or more games three years running climbed…
From the HERE City National DeskPHILADELPHIA, Pa. — Boston turned the first meeting between Jayson Tatum and former teammate Jaylen Brown into a lopsided night, beating the Philadelphia 76ers 123-101 on Tuesday at Xfinity Mobile Arena. Paul George, who went to Boston in the offseason deal that sent Brown to…
From the HERE City National DeskLOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Dodgers on Tuesday named Pedro Guerrero a hitting coach on their major league staff, filling the lone opening on manager Dave Roberts' coaching group for 2027. Guerrero, 37, comes over from Miami, where he led the Marlins' hitting group…
From the HERE City National DeskHENDERSON, Nev. — Kirk Cousins is headed back to Minnesota. The Las Vegas Raiders announced Tuesday that they have shipped the 38-year-old quarterback to the Vikings, getting a 2027 third-round draft choice back. The Raiders said the deal will not be final until Cousins passes…
From the HERE City National DeskWINNIPEG, Manitoba — Dawson Mercer scored twice in his first meeting with his former club, including the go-ahead power-play goal late in the third period, as the Winnipeg Jets beat the New Jersey Devils 4-2 on Tuesday night at Canada Life Centre. The night was…
Events
GREENWOOD, S.C. — Uptown Greenwood opens its holiday shopping season with a packed weekend: an evening wine walk and a milestone arts gala on Friday, followed by a daylong open house at downtown stores on Saturday. The second Uptown Uncorked Wine Walk begins at 5:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 13. Each…
Events
GREENWOOD, S.C. — Young children in Greenwood can get a fairy-tale makeover this Saturday, Nov. 14, when high school cosmetology students bring back their Bibbidi Bobbidi Beauty Camp. The camp runs from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Greenwood’s G. Frank Russell Technology Center, located at 601 East Northside Drive,…
Business
GREENWOOD, S.C. — Fujifilm is staffing up for its busiest stretch of the year in Greenwood, with plans to bring on as many as 500 seasonal workers to turn out holiday photo gifts. The jobs are at the company’s personalized photo products plant, where workers print and ship items such…
From HERE Greenville
GREENVILLE, S.C. — In Greenville, the Ottaray Raw Bar and Taphouse on Laurens Road has shut down, with Nov. 8 as its final day, after a run of under two years. The owners said sales had not met expectations and that they were proud of what they had built. They…
From the HERE City State Desk
COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina is trying to sell itself as more than a place to build things, pitching new energy research sites to companies that might bring their factories and jobs to the state. The push runs through SC Nexus for Advanced Resilient Energy, a partnership of the state…
Public Safety
GREENWOOD, S.C. — Greenwood teenager Calvin Lamont Parker Jr. would have turned 20 on Tuesday. Instead, his face looked down from a digital roadside sign in Greenville from morning to midnight, paired with a plea for young people to put down their guns. Parker was 17 and about to start…
From the HERE City State Desk
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Republicans will still run the South Carolina House when the General Assembly returns in January, but they will no longer have the two-thirds supermajority they built over the last two election cycles. Democrats picked up 10 House seats in last week's election Election Commission's unofficial count. One…
From the HERE City State Desk
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Historic preservation groups across South Carolina are pushing back on a federal permitting overhaul that cleared a key Senate vote this week, warning it could leave old cemeteries, battlefields and historic districts with fewer protections. The Senate voted 73-25 on Monday to move ahead with the Bipartisan…
From the HERE City State Desk
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Flu season has arrived early and hard in South Carolina, which now trails only Louisiana for influenza activity on the newest national flu map published by federal health officials at the CDC. State numbers show how quickly it is building. The South Carolina Department of Public Health's…
Fishing
GREENWOOD, S.C. — Answers on what killed thousands of fish and other aquatic life in Lake Greenwood this spring could arrive later this month, with state regulators now saying their final report should be public in roughly two weeks. On Tuesday, the South Carolina Department of Environmental Services said it…
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