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From the HERE City State DeskHUNTINGTON, W.Va. — South Carolina's men's soccer team is one win from its first conference championship match in more than a decade, but it will have to beat a familiar problem to get there. The sixth-seeded Gamecocks (11-5-2) play second-seeded Marshall in the Sun Belt…
From the HERE City State DeskPENSACOLA, Fla. — South Carolina needed less than five minutes to take control of its SEC Tournament quarterfinal, and Georgia never found a way back. The second-seeded Gamecocks beat the 10th-seeded Bulldogs 3-0 on Tuesday to advance to the semifinals, improving to 13-2-3. Georgia finished…
From the HERE City State DeskCOLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina puts its unbeaten start on the line Wednesday night against a Saint Peter's team that has struggled to score but nearly stole each of its last two games. Tipoff at Colonial Life Arena is 7 p.m., with the game on…
From the HERE City State DeskCOLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina keeps climbing. The Gamecocks jumped four places, landing at No. 17 when the playoff selection committee put out its second set of rankings Tuesday night, on the heels of a fourth consecutive Southeastern Conference victory. The latest came Saturday at…
From the HERE City State DeskCOLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina quarterback LaNorris Sellers is now on the short list for one of college football's top individual honors. The senior from Florence was named Tuesday as one of 18 semifinalists for the Maxwell Award, which goes to the best offensive player…
From HERE ClemsonCLEMSON, S.C. — Clemson hosts Georgia Tech at Memorial Stadium on Saturday, Nov. 14, for Senior Day and a milestone for head coach Dabo Swinney. Kickoff in Clemson is 12:30 p.m., and The CW has the broadcast. The Tigers are 6-3 overall and 4-2 in…
From the HERE City National DeskMILWAUKEE — Milwaukee Brewers manager Pat Murphy was voted National League Manager of the Year on Tuesday for the third season in a row, making him the first manager in big-league history to win the Baseball Writers' Association of America award three straight times. Murphy,…
From the HERE City National DeskCHICAGO — Will Venable of the Chicago White Sox is the 2026 American League Manager of the Year, the Baseball Writers' Association of America announced Tuesday night, capping a season in which a club that had lost 100 or more games three years running climbed…
From the HERE City National DeskPHILADELPHIA, Pa. — Boston turned the first meeting between Jayson Tatum and former teammate Jaylen Brown into a lopsided night, beating the Philadelphia 76ers 123-101 on Tuesday at Xfinity Mobile Arena. Paul George, who went to Boston in the offseason deal that sent Brown to…
From the HERE City National DeskLOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Dodgers on Tuesday named Pedro Guerrero a hitting coach on their major league staff, filling the lone opening on manager Dave Roberts' coaching group for 2027. Guerrero, 37, comes over from Miami, where he led the Marlins' hitting group…
From the HERE City National DeskHENDERSON, Nev. — Kirk Cousins is headed back to Minnesota. The Las Vegas Raiders announced Tuesday that they have shipped the 38-year-old quarterback to the Vikings, getting a 2027 third-round draft choice back. The Raiders said the deal will not be final until Cousins passes…
From the HERE City National DeskWINNIPEG, Manitoba — Dawson Mercer scored twice in his first meeting with his former club, including the go-ahead power-play goal late in the third period, as the Winnipeg Jets beat the New Jersey Devils 4-2 on Tuesday night at Canada Life Centre. The night was…
From HERE Irmo
IRMO, S.C. — A longtime Irmo holiday tradition is coming back in December. Union United Methodist Church will present its 33rd annual Living Christmas Story, a free drive-through nativity, from Dec. 4 to Dec. 6. Each evening, from 6:30 until 9 p.m., the show plays out at the church, 7582…
Business
HILTON HEAD, S.C. — Food Lion is opening a new grocery store today, Wednesday, Nov. 11, on Mathews Drive, in the Port Royal Plaza shopping center on Hilton Head Island. The address is 93 Mathews Drive. A ribbon-cutting is set for 7:45 a.m., after which shoppers will be let in.…
From HERE Beaufort
BEAUFORT, S.C. — An Italian maker of tubing and fittings for trucks and industrial equipment plans to set up a distribution and customer support operation in Beaufort County, the governor’s office announced Tuesday, Nov. 10. The company expects to put in roughly $5 million and hire at least 11 people…
From the HERE City State Desk
COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina is trying to sell itself as more than a place to build things, pitching new energy research sites to companies that might bring their factories and jobs to the state. The push runs through SC Nexus for Advanced Resilient Energy, a partnership of the state…
Politics
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. — Hilton Head Island Town Council has appointed five people to a newly formed panel, the Bryant Road public-private housing advisory group. Its job is to help steer workforce homes on a 7.19-acre parcel off Spanish Wells Road. The first meeting was set for 1 p.m.…
From HERE Charleston
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Charleston County leaders are looking at spending about $3 million to expand the Dungannon Heritage Preserve in Hollywood by roughly 608 acres. County Council was due to take up the request at its Tuesday, Nov. 10, meeting. The Open Space Institute Land Trust has applied for $3,072,300…
From the HERE City State Desk
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Republicans will still run the South Carolina House when the General Assembly returns in January, but they will no longer have the two-thirds supermajority they built over the last two election cycles. Democrats picked up 10 House seats in last week's election Election Commission's unofficial count. One…
From the HERE City State Desk
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Flu season has arrived early and hard in South Carolina, which now trails only Louisiana for influenza activity on the newest national flu map published by federal health officials at the CDC. State numbers show how quickly it is building. The South Carolina Department of Public Health's…
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