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From the HERE City State DeskORANGEBURG, S.C. — South Carolina State started its men's basketball season Monday night with a 94-55 home win over Morris College, a game the Bulldogs led for good less than seven minutes in. Morris jumped ahead 9-5 before freshman forward Treven Raymon hit a three-pointer…
From HERE ClemsonNOTRE DAME, Ind. — Clemson volleyball won two sets at Notre Dame on Sunday afternoon but could not close it out, falling 3-2 to the Fighting Irish at Purcell Pavilion. The Tigers took the first set 25-23 and the fourth 25-17, while the Irish won…
From the HERE City State DeskNASHVILLE, Tenn. — South Carolina’s long unbeaten stretch ran into the best team in the country on Sunday. Top-ranked Vanderbilt beat the No. 10 Gamecocks 3-0 in the regular-season finale, handing South Carolina its first SEC loss of the year and snapping a 14-game run…
From the HERE City National DeskATLANTA, Ga. — The Atlanta Tipoff Club released its preseason Naismith Trophy watch list for men's college basketball on Monday, Nov. 2, naming 50 players who will be tracked for national player of the year honors this winter. Iowa State senior guard Tamin Lipsey is…
From the HERE City National DeskDALLAS, Texas — The Sacramento Kings are winless no more. The last NBA team without a victory this season knocked off the Dallas Mavericks 115-100 on Monday night at American Airlines Center. Rookie Darius Acuff Jr., the seventh overall pick out of Arkansas, led Sacramento…
From the HERE City National DeskNEW YORK, N.Y. — Milwaukee will be well represented when baseball hands out its biggest individual honors next week. The Baseball Writers' Association of America revealed its top three vote-getters for each major award on Monday, and the Brewers placed four people among the finalists.…
From the HERE City National DeskLOS ANGELES, Calif. — Three sons of former NBA All-Stars put their stamp on the USC season opener Monday night, as the No. 21 Trojans ran away from Milwaukee 95-63 at the Galen Center. Freshman forward Adonis Ratliff scored a game-high 25 points in his…
From the HERE City National DeskINDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — Indiana took the floor Monday night with exactly one substitute, and the Atlanta Hawks still had to sweat out a 108-104 win at Gainbridge Fieldhouse. Eleven Pacers were unavailable because of injuries, illness or rest, a group that accounts for roughly 93…
From the HERE City National DeskNORMAN, Okla. — East Texas A&M opened its season with one of the biggest surprises of the first night of college basketball, beating Oklahoma 68-64 on Monday at Lloyd Noble Center. The loss ended a 30-game home winning streak for the Sooners, who were heavy…
From the HERE City National DeskSEATTLE, Wash. — Chicago let a double-digit lead shrink to three early in the fourth quarter Monday night, then answered with two touchdown drives to beat the defending Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks 34-17 at Lumen Field. The win was the third straight for the…
From the HERE City National DeskSANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Spain — CD Tenerife forward Jesus de Miguel has died, the Spanish club announced Tuesday, a day after he was badly hurt in a collision during a match against FC Andorra. In an official statement, Tenerife said De Miguel died at…
From the HERE City National DeskNATCHITOCHES, La. — Chloe Donnell had never scored more than four points in a college game. On Monday night she entered as a reserve for Northwestern State and matched the NCAA women's record for 3-pointers in a single game. The sophomore guard made 14 of…
Education
IRMO, S.C. — Irmo voters will help seat four new members on the Lexington-Richland School District Five Board of Trustees on Tuesday, Nov. 3, in a race with seven candidates and not a single incumbent. The board is split by the county line that runs through the district. On the…
From the HERE City State Desk
COLUMBIA, S.C. — A South Carolina residential appraiser disciplined by the state's Real Estate Appraisers Board has asked the Administrative Law Court to reconsider a ruling that upheld those sanctions, arguing the case raises questions about how licensing boards police the professions they regulate. The New Civil Liberties Alliance, a…
Public Safety
IRMO, S.C. — State agents are looking into a Sunday encounter in Irmo where a town police officer fired a weapon while answering a domestic disturbance call on Ashbourne Road. Nobody was struck, and nobody was hurt. Officers went to the Ashbourne Road home early on Nov. 1, in the…
From the HERE City State Desk
BISHOPVILLE, S.C. — The South Carolina Department of Corrections has suspended the warden of Lee Correctional Institution without pay following his arrest on a driving under the influence charge, the agency said Monday. Warden Shane Jackson was arrested Thursday, Oct. 29, in Sumter County, according to the department. Agency spokeswoman…
Politics
IRMO, S.C. — Irmo voters will settle a question about how their town is run when they go to the polls Tuesday, Nov. 3. A local referendum on the general election ballot asks whether the Town of Irmo should change from the council form of government to the council-manager form.…
Politics
IRMO, S.C. — Irmo Town Administrator Jim Crosland earns $139,247.55 a year, the largest salary on the town payroll, according to pay figures the Town of Irmo released under the state open records law. The chief of the separate Irmo Fire District is close behind at $134,939.74. Crosland got the…
From the HERE City State Desk
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Polling places across South Carolina opened at 7 a.m. Tuesday and stay open until 7 p.m. for a general election that will put a new governor in office for the first time since 2017 and settle the U.S. Senate seat once held by the late Lindsey Graham.…
From the HERE City State Desk
COLUMBIA, S.C. — The U.S. Department of Agriculture put South Carolina's new limits on food stamp purchases into the federal record Tuesday, publishing a notice that lays out why it let the state stop SNAP benefits from paying for candy, soda, energy drinks and other sugary drinks. The rules, which…
From the HERE City National Desk
LOWVILLE, N.Y. — Measles has claimed the life of a Lewis County child, marking the first death tied to the disease in New York in more than three decades, state and county health officials announced Monday. The state Health Department and the county health agency made the announcement together on…
Hunting
IRMO, S.C. — Irmo SC hunting on public land changes later this month, when state wildlife management areas in Game Zone 3 reopen deer hunting to either sex on the final three Saturdays of November: Nov. 14, Nov. 21 and Nov. 28. Game Zone 3 covers both counties that Irmo…
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