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Hollis V. Blackwell writes about local government and elections in Spartanburg and is one of the longest-tenured beat reporters in the room with 19+ years on Spartanburg County Council and the State House delegation. Focuses on what each story means in practice — not in theory.
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Global oil prices eased after Trump paused Project Freedom, the US naval escort mission in the Strait of Hormuz, while BMW Spartanburg and SC Ports Authority face direct\u2026
More than three million Americans have stopped receiving federal food assistance since President Donald Trump signed sweeping changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program into law last summer,\u2026
A federal indictment unsealed in Manhattan has triggered one of Mexico's worst political crises in years, forcing the governor of Sinaloa state and the mayor of its capital\u2026
A man drove a car loaded with improvised explosive devices through the front entrance of a prominent Portland, Oregon, social club in the early morning hours of Saturday,\u2026
President Donald Trump confirmed Saturday that he was reviewing a newly submitted Iranian peace proposal but expressed serious doubts it would meet U.S. standards, setting up a pivotal\u2026
Spartanburg County Sheriff Bill Rhyne held his first Community Connect event on April 28 at Boiling Springs Middle School, drawing roughly 40 residents and sharing detailed information about\u2026
Hillsborough County authorities confirmed Friday that human remains discovered in Tampa Bay belong to Nahida Bristy, a 27-year-old doctoral student in chemical engineering at the University of South\u2026
A three-judge panel of the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a unanimous ruling Friday that eliminates the nationwide option to receive mifepristone through telehealth\u2026
Louisiana suspended its U.S. House primary elections Thursday, less than two weeks before voting was set to begin, after the Supreme Court ruled the state's congressional map an\u2026
Iran's supreme leader issued a defiant public statement Thursday pledging to preserve the country's nuclear enrichment program and ballistic missile capabilities, rejecting U.S. pressure to curtail those assets\u2026
A federal grand jury indicted Sinaloa Governor Ruben Rocha Moya and nine other Mexican officials Wednesday on drug trafficking and weapons charges, alleging they helped the Sinaloa Cartel\u2026
The White House pressed the House of Representatives on Tuesday to immediately pass a stalled bipartisan spending measure that would reopen the Department of Homeland Security, as the\u2026