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SportsCLINTON, S.C. — Clinton High School will play Southside Christian on Friday, Nov. 13, in a Class 2A Upper State second-round playoff rematch. It is the next step in the SCHSL playoffs for both clubs. The SCHSL set the pairing after the opening weekend of…
SportsCLINTON, S.C. — Presbyterian College sent its eight seniors off in style Saturday afternoon in Clinton, outlasting UNC Asheville 3-2 at the Templeton Center. PC won the first and third sets 25-22 and the fifth 15-11, while the Bulldogs took the second 25-16 and the…
SportsCLINTON, S.C. — Presbyterian College wrestling gets its 2026-27 season underway Sunday, Nov. 8, when the Blue Hose host Division II Coker at Templeton Gymnasium in Clinton. The opener will not be scored as a standard dual meet. The two programs instead will run a…
SportsCLINTON, S.C. — USC Upstate came to Clinton on Friday night and swept Presbyterian College 25-15, 26-24, 25-22 at the Templeton Center, handing the Blue Hose a loss in their next-to-last home match of the fall. The result leaves PC at 8-18 overall and 2-10…
From the HERE City State DeskHUNTINGTON, W.Va. — South Carolina’s 24th-ranked men’s soccer team opens Sun Belt Tournament play Sunday night against third-seeded UCF, a 7 p.m. kickoff at Hoops Family Field with a spot in the semifinals at stake. The Gamecocks are the No. 6 seed after a 10-5-2…
From the HERE City National DeskHOUSTON, Texas — Center back Lukas MacNaughton waited until the last attack of the MLS regular season to deliver, scoring in the seventh minute of second-half stoppage time Saturday night as St. Louis CITY SC edged the Houston Dynamo 1-0 at Shell Energy Stadium and…
From the HERE City National DeskHONG KONG — American Claire Liu captured the first WTA Tour singles title of her career Sunday, closing the Hong Kong Tennis Open final with nine straight games to beat second seed Alexandra Eala of the Philippines 6-3, 6-0 at Victoria Park. The opening set…
From the HERE City National DeskSOUTH BEND, Ind. — Top-ranked Miami is unbeaten no more. Notre Dame jumped out to a 24-3 cushion early in the third quarter Saturday night and then survived a frantic Hurricanes comeback for a 31-24 victory at Notre Dame Stadium. Both teams now sit at…
From the HERE City National DeskAUSTIN, Texas — Portland needed only three minutes on Decision Day to take control. Ariel Lassiter beat the Austin FC back line for an early goal, Kristoffer Velde doubled the margin in the 70th minute, and the Timbers won 2-0 at Q2 Stadium Saturday night…
From the HERE City National DeskFOXBOROUGH, Mass. — The New England Patriots will again be without wide receiver A.J. Brown when they host the Green Bay Packers at Gillette Stadium on Sunday, but the team is hopeful the 29-year-old can rejoin the lineup once the Week 11 bye is behind…
From the HERE City National DeskMADRID, Spain — The NFL takes over one of the most famous soccer venues on the planet Sunday when the Cincinnati Bengals and Atlanta Falcons meet at Santiago Bernabeu Stadium, and Cincinnati coach Zac Taylor arrived with a bold claim about his quarterback. At his…
From the HERE City National DeskCHICAGO, Ill. — The second weekend of the Illinois High School Association football playoffs delivered one of its wildest finishes in Antioch, where ninth-seeded Sycamore knocked off the top seed 32-28 in a Class 5A game Saturday. Antioch appeared to score on a long heave…
Education
LAURENS COUNTY, S.C. — Students in Laurens County School District 55 will do their schoolwork from home on Monday, Nov. 9, as the district copes with a shortage of bus drivers and a wave of seasonal illness among staff. Schools will be closed to students for the day, although principals…
From HERE Newberry
NEWBERRY, S.C. — A Cleveland dance company that pairs standing performers with dancers who use wheelchairs appears at the Newberry Opera House at 6 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 8, at 1201 McKibben Street. Anne Pinckney Smith, the theater's executive director, said the booking started with a note from the troupe about…
From the HERE City State Desk
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — State utility regulators will collect public comments at 6 p.m. Thursday at the Lonnie Hamilton III Public Services Building, 4045 Bridgeview Drive, on NextEra Energy’s plan to buy Dominion Energy’s parent company, a deal valued at about $67 billion. Dominion Energy and NextEra submitted their merger…
From Merger Monday
The New Orleans City Council approved a 45-year tax arrangement on Thursday for the planned Omni New Orleans, one of the last local steps for a $625 million convention headquarters hotel across from the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. Rather than paying a conventional property-tax bill, the Dallas-based developers would make…
From Merger Monday
Fox Corp. borrowed $10.4 billion on Friday as it completed its roughly $22 billion purchase of Roku Inc., drawing $2 billion under an amended term loan and $8.4 billion under a new bridge facility to cover part of the cash it owed Roku holders. An 8-K filed with the Securities and…
From the HERE City National Desk
SEATTLE, Wash. — The first strong fall storm of the season swept across Western Washington on Saturday night, toppling trees and leaving well over 80,000 homes and businesses without electricity at its peak. Seattle City Light counted more than 46,000 of its customers in the dark around 9 p.m. Saturday,…
Politics
CLINTON, S.C. — Garbage pickup in Clinton will run on a shifted schedule this week because of the Veterans Day holiday on Wednesday, Nov. 11, according to the Sanitation Division of the city's Public Works Department. Customers on the Monday and Tuesday routes will see no change, with crews running…
Politics
LAURENS, S.C. — Voters in part of Laurens County School District 55 will go back to the polls Nov. 17 to decide who fills Seat 6 on the district Board of Trustees, after neither Nick Babb nor Lee McDaniel won a majority in the Nov. 3 general election. Babb finished…
Politics
LAURENS, S.C. — Laurens County Council is set to take its first public step Monday toward a proposed industrial development in Joanna, the mill village community that sits on SC-221 between Clinton and Laurens. The project, known inside county government as Project Orange, comes in two phases. Council members plan…
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