Local crime, high school sports, county politics, events tonight, and business closings — the daily Upstate report from HEREspartanburg.
Sports
USC Upstate's baseball program wraps its 2026 regular season this week at Cleveland S. Harley Park in Spartanburg, hosting Elon on Thursday and Northern Kentucky in a two-game home series Friday and Saturday before departing for the Big South Baseball Championship in Asheville. The Spartans enter the final stretch with a…
Sports
Wofford College baseball heads to Fluor Field in Greenville for the Southern Conference Baseball Championship beginning May 20, closing its 2026 regular season as one of the SoCon's leading programs after a 32-win campaign that included a home sweep series over East Tennessee State University at Russell C. King Field…
Sports
The Connecticut Sun are heading to Houston. The WNBA and NBA Board of Governors unanimously approved the sale and relocation of the franchise on Wednesday, transferring ownership from the Mohegan Tribe to Houston Rockets owner Tilman J. Fertitta and setting the stage for the franchise to begin play as the…
Education
Wofford College will hold its 172nd annual Commencement ceremony on Sunday, May 17 at 9:30 a.m. on the front lawn of Main Building in Spartanburg, marking the close of a year that saw the college confer four honorary degrees on individuals with deep ties to the institution, while three graduating…
Education
The University of South Carolina Upstate is set to hold its Spring 2026 Undergraduate Commencement ceremony on Thursday, May 7, marking the completion of another graduating class at the Spartanburg campus — a class the university describes as resilient students who found personal and professional growth through mentorship, campus involvement,…
Education
Families in Spartanburg County School District 5 can now begin planning their 2026-27 year with the district's academic calendar officially set. District 5, which serves students across the Duncan and Lyman areas and surrounding communities, has published its calendar for the coming school year with key dates for holidays, breaks,…
Events
The Spartanburg Philharmonic announced on May 13, 2026 that it will formally induct two new honorees into the Spartanburg Music Trail — award-winning bluegrass banjo artist Kristin Scott Benson and the late internationally recognized violist and radio broadcaster Miles Hoffman — at a free public ceremony scheduled for June 11…
Events
The annual Hub City Hog Fest returned to downtown Spartanburg this month, bringing barbecue teams, live music, and thousands of visitors to the heart of the city. The two-day festival, one of Spartanburg's signature spring events, showcases competitive barbecue alongside local vendors, craft beverages, and family-friendly entertainment. Organizers put out a…
Events
Published April 17, 2026 at 7:00 AM | By Paige H. Warren Sr., Events & Community Reporter Spartanburg is hosting the Expressions National Dance Competition this weekend, April 17-19, at the Spartanburg School District 3 Community Auditorium at 381 Cherry Hill Road. The multi-day competition brings dancers from across the region…
Manufacturing
AFL, a Spartanburg-based global manufacturer of fiber optic cable and related infrastructure products, earned five Plant Safety Awards from South Carolina Manufacturers and Commerce at the organization's 2026 annual recognition ceremony — the second consecutive year all five of the company's Spartanburg County manufacturing locations received the distinction. The South Carolina…
Business
Airsys, a global provider of mission-critical cooling for data centers and artificial intelligence infrastructure, officially opened its new global headquarters campus in Woodruff on May 13, 2026, marking the culmination of a multi-year effort to anchor the company's corporate and manufacturing operations in Spartanburg County. The 60-acre campus, situated in Woodruff's…
Business
Nvidia shares surged to a fresh all-time high on May 13, climbing roughly 2.7% to close around $226 and briefly pushing the company's market capitalization above $5.5 trillion, after President Donald Trump confirmed that CEO Jensen Huang had boarded Air Force One for a high-profile summit in Beijing with Chinese…
Crime
a city police officer, Don "DJ" Keller, a 31-year-old K-9 handler and U.S. Army veteran, was killed Monday evening when a teenage driver fleeing a traffic stop in a blue Jeep crossed into oncoming traffic on East Cambridge Avenue and struck his patrol vehicle head-on, according to the city police…
Crime
A 66-year-old driver was killed Tuesday evening when his SUV crossed multiple lanes on White Horse Road in Berea, overturned several times, and slammed into a pickup truck stopped at a stop sign on Old White Horse Road, according to state troopers and the Greenville County Coroner's Office. Regional outlets covering…
Crime
A 16-year-old boy faces six felony counts including armed robbery and vehicular hijacking after a January–April crime spree across Chicago, as South Carolina records its lowest robbery and burglary rates in 30 years.
Politics
Spartanburg County Council convened a special Budget Workshop meeting on Thursday, May 14, 2026, at 2:00 p.m. in County Council Chambers at 366 North Church Street — a session posted to the county's official agenda center on May 13 and positioned as the second in a series of pre-budget deliberations…
Politics
Spartanburg County Council District 1 representative Monier Abusaft was scheduled to appear in court on Thursday, May 14, for a motion hearing related to a third-degree assault and battery charge filed after his arrest on March 5, 2026, according to court records reviewed by multiple regional news organizations. Abusaft, 36, was…
Politics
President Donald Trump arrived in Beijing on Wednesday for a three-day state summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping, bringing along more than a dozen of America's most powerful corporate executives — a delegation whose combined net worth exceeds $1 trillion and whose companies have direct stakes in the outcome of…
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