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SportsLAURENS, S.C. — Laurens Academy starts its push for a SCISA 8-man football title on its own field Friday, Nov. 6, when the Crusaders take on Wardlaw Academy in the opening round of the state playoffs. The two teams already know each other. Laurens Academy…
SportsCLINTON, S.C. — Presbyterian College junior Mary Ellen Longmire, who plays for the Blue Hose women's tennis team in Clinton, picked up the school's weekly student-athlete honor, sponsored by Adidas and Game One, after a spotless closing weekend. Longmire won all three of her singles…
SportsLAURENS, S.C. — Laurens District 55 High School senior Brayden Patterson has been picked as the Laurens County Touchdown Club Player of the Week for his work in the Raiders’ Oct. 30 season finale. The wide receiver caught six passes for 157 yards against Greenwood,…
From HERE ColumbiaCOLUMBIA, S.C. — Tyasha Harris, the point guard who helped South Carolina women’s basketball win its first national title, heads back to Columbia this week to enter the athletics Hall of Fame run by the university’s Association of Lettermen. The 2026 class is inducted Thursday,…
From the HERE City State DeskORANGEBURG, S.C. — South Carolina State started its men's basketball season Monday night with a 94-55 home win over Morris College, a game the Bulldogs led for good less than seven minutes in. Morris jumped ahead 9-5 before freshman forward Treven Raymon hit a three-pointer…
From the HERE City National DeskLOS ANGELES, Calif. — The NBA has wiped a technical foul off Luka Doncic's record, leaving the Los Angeles Lakers star with just one so far this season. Doncic was hit with the technical with 1:12 to go in the second quarter of Monday's home…
From the HERE City National DeskOCEANSIDE, Calif. — Yuki Kawamura is back in the G League and says his goal has not changed. The Japanese guard told reporters Tuesday that he wants a full NBA contract and a defined role on an NBA roster. Kawamura, 25, spent the preseason with…
From the HERE City National DeskBRUNSWICK, Maine — Bowdoin College said Tuesday that B.J. Hammer is no longer head coach of its football program, with the change taking effect Nov. 1. The move follows a leave of absence that began Oct. 22, partway through Hammer's seventh year with the Polar…
From the HERE City National DeskROME, Italy — It took UFC bantamweight Raul Rosas Jr. just 43 seconds on Tuesday to force a tap from Colby Covington, who once held the interim UFC welterweight belt, in the Hype Fighting Italy headliner at PalaPellicone. Rosas, the 22-year-old bantamweight, took the 10-minute,…
From the HERE City National DeskATLANTA, Ga. — The Atlanta Tipoff Club released its preseason Naismith Trophy watch list for men's college basketball on Monday, Nov. 2, naming 50 players who will be tracked for national player of the year honors this winter. Iowa State senior guard Tamin Lipsey is…
From the HERE City National DeskDALLAS, Texas — The Sacramento Kings are winless no more. The last NBA team without a victory this season knocked off the Dallas Mavericks 115-100 on Monday night at American Airlines Center. Rookie Darius Acuff Jr., the seventh overall pick out of Arkansas, led Sacramento…
From the HERE City National DeskNEW YORK, N.Y. — Milwaukee will be well represented when baseball hands out its biggest individual honors next week. The Baseball Writers' Association of America revealed its top three vote-getters for each major award on Monday, and the Brewers placed four people among the finalists.…
From the HERE City State Desk
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Fifteen South Carolina school districts are getting cash awards for filling cafeteria trays with food grown in the state, the South Carolina Department of Agriculture announced, wrapping up the first season of its Certified SC Cafeteria program. The top five buyers each receive $10,000: Greenville County Schools,…
From the HERE City State Desk
COLUMBIA, S.C. — State Superintendent Ellen Weaver will spend four more years steering South Carolina's 72 public school districts after the Republican defeated Democrat Sylvia Wright on Tuesday in the tightest race of her career. Weaver drew 1,031,719 votes, or 50.98%, in unofficial returns. About 56,000 votes separated her from…
Events
CLINTON, S.C. — The city of Clinton is bringing back Scots & Brats on Saturday, Nov. 7, a fall party that blends a German-style Oktoberfest with a Scottish theme and draws in students from Presbyterian College. The festival has been a fall fixture in town since 2018. This is the…
From the HERE City State Desk
CHARLESTON, S.C. — 3M has agreed to pay $7.35 billion over nine years to settle personal injury claims tied to PFAS chemicals in firefighting foam, the company announced Tuesday, resolving the heart of a sprawling national case that has been heard in federal court in South Carolina. A single federal…
Politics
LAURENS COUNTY, S.C. — Elizabeth Plaxico Lollis and David Nabors will join the Laurens County School District 56 board after winning the district’s two contested seats in Tuesday’s general election, unofficial returns show. Lollis took Seat 6 with 365 votes, about 59 percent, over Jake Patterson, who drew 244. In…
From the HERE City State Desk
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Attorney General Alan Wilson will be South Carolina's next governor after the Republican defeated Democratic state Rep. Jermaine Johnson in Tuesday's election, keeping the office in GOP hands as Gov. Henry McMaster leaves under term limits. With roughly 98% of ballots tallied, Wilson held 51.7% of the…
From the HERE City State Desk
COLUMBIA, S.C. — More South Carolinians voted in Tuesday's governor election than in any gubernatorial contest in at least three decades, and the share of registered voters who took part also set a new high for a governor's race, the State Election Commission said. The commission reported two records falling…
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