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SportsCLINTON, S.C. — Presbyterian College volleyball leaves Clinton for two Big South road matches this weekend, opening Friday night at High Point and wrapping up Saturday afternoon at Radford. The Blue Hose, 8-15 overall and 2-7 in league play, meet the Panthers at 6 p.m.…
SportsCLINTON, S.C. — Sloane Spessard, a junior on the Presbyterian College women’s golf team in Clinton, picked up the Big South Conference’s top weekly award for women’s golf Thursday after the best tournament of her college career. The league named Spessard, who is from Raleigh,…
From HERE ClemsonCLEMSON, S.C. — Clemson men's basketball starts the games that count on Monday, Nov. 2, when Stetson visits Littlejohn Coliseum for a 7 p.m. tip. Brad Brownell's Tigers head into the opener unbeaten in the preseason. They edged Georgia 82-80 on Oct. 23 and then…
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 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…
Education
LAURENS COUNTY, S.C. — The Laurens County First Steps home visiting program for parents of young children has earned a national Blue Ribbon rating for a second time. The Parents as Teachers National Center gave the local Parents as Teachers program its Blue Ribbon Affiliate designation, the top quality mark…
Events
CLINTON, S.C. — People in Clinton who want to remember someone can have spring daffodils planted in that person’s name, as Clinton Canopy prepares to put 600 bulbs in the ground on the Presbyterian College campus on Saturday, Nov. 14. The nonprofit’s Daffodils for Remembrance planting runs from 9 to…
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…
Public Safety
WATERLOO, S.C. — Two county coroners are at odds over whose remains were dug up behind a Waterloo home in Laurens County last week, and the family of a missing 87-year-old Chappells man is left waiting on lab work for a firm answer. On Wednesday the Laurens County Coroner's Office…
Public Safety
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Robin Morse, who once ran public safety in Clinton and led the Laurens Police Department, was enshrined Wednesday in South Carolina’s Law Enforcement Officers Hall of Fame. Morse was one of 13 retired law enforcement leaders honored for meritorious service at a 2 p.m. ceremony at the…
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…
Politics
CLINTON, S.C. — Clinton City Council is set to cast its final vote Monday, Nov. 2, on selling more than 557 acres of former Whitten Center land to a private developer, and the meeting agenda does not include a public hearing on the sale before that vote. The ordinance would…
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…
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