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SportsSPARTANBURG, S.C. — The USC Upstate baseball team in Spartanburg will open its 2027 season against a run of Power Four teams, according to the schedule coach Kane Sweeney released this week. The slate lists 56 regular-season games. Twenty-six are at home, three are at…
SportsSPARTANBURG, S.C. — Gerald Modest Jr., a running back at Spartanburg's Wofford College, picked up his first weekly award from the Southern Conference on Monday, when the league office chose him as its Offensive Player of the Week. The junior from Miami ran 20 times…
From the HERE City State DeskCOLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina gets No. 11 Tennessee at Williams-Brice Stadium on Saturday with something it has lacked for most of the season: a mostly healthy lineup and an extra week to prepare. Kickoff is set for 3:30 p.m. The Gamecocks (3-3, 1-3 SEC)…
From the HERE City State DeskCOLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina women's basketball has its point guard for now. A judge in California on Tuesday granted an injunction that makes Brooke Quarles-Daniels and the other players in her lawsuit against the NCAA eligible for the 2026-27 season. Judge Beth McGowan issued…
From the HERE City State DeskCOLUMBIA, S.C. — Gamecocks junior Jana Stojanova punched her first ticket to the NCAA Individual Championships on Tuesday, beating North Carolina's Avery Nguyen 6-2, 6-2 in the singles semifinals of the ITA Carolina Regionals. The straight-set win sends Stojanova into the regional singles final and…
From the HERE City National DeskNEW YORK — The NFL said Tuesday it has no issue with how the Philadelphia Eagles cared for quarterback Jalen Hurts before and after his blood clot diagnosis, and the team will face no discipline. Hours later, the NFL Players Association said it knew of…
From the HERE City National DeskNEW YORK — The New York Knicks raised their first championship banner since 1973 on Tuesday night, then watched a retooled Philadelphia 76ers team leave Madison Square Garden with a 106-100 win in the season opener for both clubs. Tyrese Maxey paced Philadelphia with a…
From the HERE City National DeskCOLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio State is preparing to play the rest of the season without starting quarterback Julian Sayin, who is out indefinitely after hurting his throwing arm in Saturday’s win over Indiana. Coach Ryan Day said Tuesday the program will not set a timeline…
From the HERE City National DeskMILWAUKEE — Brandon Woodruff took a real step toward a World Series comeback on Tuesday, throwing 23 pitches of live batting practice at American Family Field to several of the Brewers regular hitters. His fastball sat at 90 to 92 mph in his first session…
From the HERE City National DeskNEW YORK — The NFL is tightening security for Sunday’s Pittsburgh Steelers and New Orleans Saints game outside Paris, league officials said Tuesday, after rioting swept French cities over the weekend. Peter O’Reilly, the league executive who oversees international events, said at the fall owners…
From the HERE City National DeskCOLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Colorado College senior Charlie Flint has been chosen as the top women’s runner in the SCAC for the past week, the third time she has earned the conference honor this fall. The award follows her victory Saturday at the Augustana Interregional…
From the HERE City National DeskWILLIAMSBURG, Va. — Top-ranked Emory closed with the best team round of the final day to win the women’s NCAA Division III Fall Preview on Tuesday, finishing 36 holes on the River Course at Kingsmill Resort at 18-over-par 594. The Eagles began the day in…
From the HERE City State Desk
WEST COLUMBIA, S.C. — Roughly 300 teachers, school administrators and law enforcement officers spent Tuesday at South Carolina's first statewide School Safety and Security Symposium, a full-day session aimed as much at dangers students meet on their phones as at threats inside school buildings. The gathering brought in the state…
From the HERE City State Desk
COLUMBIA, S.C. — A new federal program will let South Carolina nonprofits begin handing out scholarships for private school tuition and other K-12 costs in January, funded by taxpayers who get a dollar-for-dollar federal tax credit for giving. The program, formally the Federal Scholarship Tax Credit under section 25F of…
From the HERE City State Desk
COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina growers and landowners are in line for roughly $84.8 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Farm Service Agency announced Tuesday, as federal price and revenue protection checks for last year's crops land alongside annual conservation rent. The state's share is part of a…
From the HERE City National Desk
EVERETT, Wash. — The Federal Aviation Administration on Tuesday signed off on the Boeing 737 Max 10, the biggest version of the company’s best-selling single-aisle jet, ending a certification fight that dragged on for close to 10 years. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy delivered the approval in person at the Boeing…
Public Safety
COWPENS, S.C. — Spartanburg County sheriff's deputies are trying to learn what set a vacant house ablaze in the Cowpens area before dawn Tuesday, and they are treating the fire as suspicious. The Mayo Fire Department got the emergency call at 4:39 a.m. and sent crews to the 200 block…
Crime
SPARTANBURG, S.C. — A woman faces insurance fraud and forgery charges after state agents say she sought payment for crash injuries that never happened, using doctored paperwork filed in Spartanburg County. The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division charged Trevon Rena Dawson, 49, on Friday, Oct. 16. The counts are presenting…
Politics
SPARTANBURG, S.C. — Spartanburg County Council has put the first set of local rules on automatic license plate readers, such as Flock cameras, before the public, voting unanimously to move forward an ordinance aimed at officers who abuse the systems. Under the proposal, a law enforcement officer found to have…
Politics
SPARTANBURG, S.C. — Spartanburg County Council on Monday moved one data center forward and left another on hold, the latest turn in a months-long fight over how such projects should be allowed in the county. By a 5-1 margin, members gave first-reading approval to a development agreement for the Lightstone…
Politics
SPARTANBURG, S.C. — How Spartanburg County will regulate where data centers can be built is back in front of County Council members Tuesday, when the council Land Use Committee holds a special session on the subject. Members gather at 11 a.m. downstairs at the Cleveland Park Event Center, whose address…
From the HERE City State Desk
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Shoppers on the federal health insurance marketplace in six South Carolina counties will see a new name on the list for 2027, as Oscar Health moves into the state for the first time. The New York-based insurer, which focuses on people who buy their own coverage, said…
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