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SportsSPARTANBURG, S.C. — Wofford wasted little time Thursday night at Snyder Field, scoring less than three minutes in and rolling past VMI 3-0 in Spartanburg for its first Southern Conference win of the women's soccer season. Annie Andrews opened the scoring at 2:55 off assists…
SportsSPARTANBURG, S.C. — The Big South Conference crowns its cross country champions in Spartanburg on Friday morning, Oct. 30, with USC Upstate playing host on the course its runners know best at the Milliken Research Center. Every one of the league's nine schools has teams…
SportsSPARTANBURG, S.C. — Rain in the Sunday forecast has pushed the South Carolina and Duke fall baseball exhibition in Spartanburg up by one day. The Gamecocks and Blue Devils will now meet at Fifth Third Park on Saturday, Oct. 31, with first pitch at 1…
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…
Education
SPARTANBURG, S.C. — Hundreds of teachers, nonprofit staff, donors, business partners and public officials spent part of this week at Thrive 2026 inside the Spartanburg Marriott, a gathering rooted in the belief that report cards alone do not decide how far a student will go. The Spartanburg Academic Movement, the…
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…
Traffic
BOILING SPRINGS, S.C. — A wreck on Highway 9 in Boiling Springs on Wednesday left a 63-year-old local man dead, the Spartanburg County Coroner’s Office said. The collision happened along Highway 9 near Hames Road, a busy stretch of the main corridor that runs through the northern Spartanburg County community.…
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
SPARTANBURG, S.C. — Louie Blanton closed out 32 years as a Spartanburg Sanitary Sewer District commissioner this week with the state's top civilian award pinned to his record. State Rep. Scott Montgomery presented the honor for Gov. Henry McMaster, who approved it, during the chair's final meeting with the commission,…
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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