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SportsGREENWOOD, S.C. — Greenwood’s Emerald High wraps up its regular season Friday night, Oct. 30, at Frank Hill Stadium against Belton-Honea Path, a Region 2 rival the Vikings have yet to beat, and a win would lock up the program’s first home playoff game since…
From the HERE City State DeskNORMAN, Okla. — South Carolina heads west this weekend looking to stretch a two-game winning streak to three. The Gamecocks face Oklahoma at 4:15 p.m. Saturday in Norman, with the game on SEC Network. It is just the second trip to Norman in program history…
From the HERE City State DeskBALTIMORE, Md. — South Carolina State turned a close first half into a blowout Thursday night, scoring the last 30 points of the game on the way to a 51-10 win over Morgan State in Baltimore. Keely Watson was sharp at quarterback from start to…
From the HERE City State DeskCOLUMBIA, S.C. — Dawn Staley and South Carolina begin another women's basketball season as the team to beat. A national power ranking released this week put the Gamecocks at No. 1 heading into 2026-27, matching their spot atop the preseason poll of media voters. In…
From the HERE City National DeskATLANTA, Ga. — The Atlanta Dream host Golden State in Game 6 of the WNBA Finals on Thursday, with a 12:30 p.m. ET start at State Farm Arena, a workday tipoff the team’s owners have publicly blamed on the league. In a letter to fans…
From the HERE City National DeskRALEIGH, N.C. — NC State will put up the money, facilities and NIL backing its next football coach needs, according to a letter to fans released Wednesday under the names of Boo Corrigan, the athletics director, and Chancellor Kevin Howell, days after the school fired…
From the HERE City National DeskGREEN BAY, Wis. — Two teams coming off losses meet Thursday night at Lambeau Field, where the Carolina Panthers try to stay above .500 against a Green Bay Packers club that has its own list of injuries to manage. Carolina arrives on a short week…
From the HERE City National DeskIRVING, Texas — The Big 12 Conference on Wednesday hit UCF with a $100,000 fine after a group of Knights fans aimed chants at BYU and its sponsoring Latter-day Saints church before last Saturday’s football game in Orlando, which UCF won in overtime. The league…
From the HERE City National DeskPHILADELPHIA, Pa. — Philadelphia Eagles running back Saquon Barkley has given up his ownership stake in Polymarket, saying NFL rules no longer let players hold a piece of prediction-market companies. Barkley said the league briefs players ahead of every season on which endorsements and investments…
From the HERE City National DeskNEW YORK, N.Y. — With the World Series decided, Major League Baseball moved into its offseason Thursday, and the calendar between now and December is packed because a labor shutdown could stop the hot stove cold. Players with at least six years of service became…
From the HERE City National DeskATLANTA, Ga. — Ernie Johnson, the host who has anchored Inside the NBA since 1990, said Wednesday that the 2026-27 season will be his last at the desk. Johnson, 70, shared the decision in a video on social media and stressed that it was his…
From the HERE City National DeskPHOENIX, Ariz. — Phoenix’s first turn hosting the NCAA Women’s Final Four pumped $71.5 million into the Arizona economy, researchers at Arizona State’s Seidman Research Institute concluded. The results were released Wednesday. Researchers surveyed out-of-state fans in person at the April 3 and April 5…
From the HERE City State Desk
GAFFNEY, S.C. — Upstate South Carolina now has a working solar module factory. First Solar opened the first phase of its Cherokee County plant on Oct. 28, with state and federal leaders on hand for the ribbon cutting on the factory floor. Roughly 500 people already work there. The company…
From the HERE City State Desk
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Diners across South Carolina should start seeing notices about where their shrimp came from. The Truth in Shrimp Labeling Act, House Bill 4248, took effect Wednesday and requires food service businesses to tell customers when the shrimp on the plate was imported. Sit-down restaurants are not the…
From the HERE City State Desk
CONWAY, S.C. — The board that runs Santee Cooper, the state-owned electric utility, meets Friday morning to decide whether customers will pay more for power over the next two years. Directors were scheduled to gather at 8 a.m. at Atheneum Hall on the Coastal Carolina University campus. The plan on…
Crime
GREENWOOD, S.C. — State agents are reviewing a Greenwood police shooting that unfolded before sunrise Wednesday inside a home on Hunter Street, where officers found an older man wounded and a younger man holding a gun. Greenwood police said officers were sent to the house around 4:30 a.m. on a…
From the HERE City State Desk
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Side-by-side utility vehicles will be allowed on some South Carolina public roads starting Nov. 18, when a new state law takes effect. Until that date, the S.C. Department of Public Safety warns, taking one onto a public road can still get a driver a ticket. Not every…
From the HERE City State Desk
COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina prison officials may soon get the tool they have chased for more than a decade. On Nov. 19, the Federal Communications Commission is set to decide on final rules that would let state prisons and local jails jam cellphone signals inside their walls, Chairman Brendan…
Politics
ABBEVILLE, S.C. — Abbeville voters in City Council District 2 will fill an open seat on Tuesday, Nov. 3, choosing between Cassandra Lomax, who appears on the ballot as Sann Lomax, and Ellen Earle Leverett in a special election. The seat opened up after Faye Thomas, its last occupant, won…
From the HERE City State Desk
CHARLESTON, S.C. — A federal judge is weighing whether the exceptions written into the South Carolina abortion ban are clear enough for doctors to follow, as a three-day bench trial over the 2023 law wraps up Friday. The lawsuit, brought by obstetrician-gynecologists and filed in January 2025, does not attack…
From the HERE City State Desk
COLUMBIA, S.C. — National Democrats are spending money in South Carolina for the first time this cycle. Senate Majority PAC, the main outside group backing Senate Democrats, said Thursday it is putting $750,000 into digital ads for Annie Andrews in her race against Republican Sen. Darline Graham. The group has…
Health
GREENWOOD, S.C. — A table in a Greenwood hospice office has turned into a pumpkin gallery this month, as staff members at Hospice and Palliative Care of the Piedmont competed to see who could dream up the most eye-catching gourd. By last week a dozen entries lined the table. Every…
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