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SportsROCK HILL, S.C. — Cross country runners from Rock Hill's Winthrop University head up Interstate 85 on Friday, Oct. 30, for the Big South Conference Championships, a meet USC Upstate is hosting on its home course at the Milliken Research Center in Spartanburg. The women's…
SportsROCK HILL, S.C. — College basketball’s new season will start in the middle of the night in Rock Hill, where the Rock Hill Sports & Event Center hosts six games Monday, Nov. 2, as part of the Field of 68 Opening Day Marathon. Doors open…
From HERE ClemsonCLEMSON, S.C. — Clemson men's basketball starts the games that count on Monday, Nov. 2, when Stetson visits Littlejohn Coliseum for a 7 p.m. tip. Brad Brownell's Tigers head into the opener unbeaten in the preseason. They edged Georgia 82-80 on Oct. 23 and then…
From the HERE City State DeskNORMAN, Okla. — South Carolina heads west this weekend looking to stretch a two-game winning streak to three. The Gamecocks face Oklahoma at 4:15 p.m. Saturday in Norman, with the game on SEC Network. It is just the second trip to Norman in program history…
From the HERE City State DeskBALTIMORE, Md. — South Carolina State turned a close first half into a blowout Thursday night, scoring the last 30 points of the game on the way to a 51-10 win over Morgan State in Baltimore. Keely Watson was sharp at quarterback from start to…
From the HERE City National DeskATLANTA, Ga. — The Atlanta Dream host Golden State in Game 6 of the WNBA Finals on Thursday, with a 12:30 p.m. ET start at State Farm Arena, a workday tipoff the team’s owners have publicly blamed on the league. In a letter to fans…
From the HERE City National DeskRALEIGH, N.C. — NC State will put up the money, facilities and NIL backing its next football coach needs, according to a letter to fans released Wednesday under the names of Boo Corrigan, the athletics director, and Chancellor Kevin Howell, days after the school fired…
From the HERE City National DeskGREEN BAY, Wis. — Two teams coming off losses meet Thursday night at Lambeau Field, where the Carolina Panthers try to stay above .500 against a Green Bay Packers club that has its own list of injuries to manage. Carolina arrives on a short week…
From the HERE City National DeskIRVING, Texas — The Big 12 Conference on Wednesday hit UCF with a $100,000 fine after a group of Knights fans aimed chants at BYU and its sponsoring Latter-day Saints church before last Saturday’s football game in Orlando, which UCF won in overtime. The league…
From the HERE City National DeskPHILADELPHIA, Pa. — Philadelphia Eagles running back Saquon Barkley has given up his ownership stake in Polymarket, saying NFL rules no longer let players hold a piece of prediction-market companies. Barkley said the league briefs players ahead of every season on which endorsements and investments…
From the HERE City National DeskNEW YORK, N.Y. — With the World Series decided, Major League Baseball moved into its offseason Thursday, and the calendar between now and December is packed because a labor shutdown could stop the hot stove cold. Players with at least six years of service became…
From the HERE City National DeskATLANTA, Ga. — Ernie Johnson, the host who has anchored Inside the NBA since 1990, said Wednesday that the 2026-27 season will be his last at the desk. Johnson, 70, shared the decision in a video on social media and stressed that it was his…
Education
ROCK HILL, S.C. — York Preparatory Academy in Rock Hill joins a statewide career-prep program on Thursday, when the South Carolina Public Charter School District formally names it the newest Workforce Center of Excellence. District Superintendent Chris Neeley and school leaders plan a 10 a.m. ceremony at the York Prep…
Business
ROCK HILL, S.C. — Atlas Copco cut the ribbon Wednesday, Oct. 28, on a new 200,000-square-foot plant on Celriver Road in Rock Hill, a site the Swedish manufacturer expects to staff with about 100 new hires. Called The Next USA, the building is the fifth Rock Hill location the company…
From the HERE City State Desk
GAFFNEY, S.C. — Upstate South Carolina now has a working solar module factory. First Solar opened the first phase of its Cherokee County plant on Oct. 28, with state and federal leaders on hand for the ribbon cutting on the factory floor. Roughly 500 people already work there. The company…
From the HERE City State Desk
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Diners across South Carolina should start seeing notices about where their shrimp came from. The Truth in Shrimp Labeling Act, House Bill 4248, took effect Wednesday and requires food service businesses to tell customers when the shrimp on the plate was imported. Sit-down restaurants are not the…
From the HERE City State Desk
COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina prison officials may soon get the tool they have chased for more than a decade. On Nov. 19, the Federal Communications Commission is set to decide on final rules that would let state prisons and local jails jam cellphone signals inside their walls, Chairman Brendan…
From the HERE City National Desk
URDA, Spain — Investigators in Spain are focusing on a decision made inside a Madrid rail control room after a high-speed train plowed into the back of a stopped train Wednesday morning in the central province of Toledo, killing 68 people in the country's second deadly high-speed crash this year.…
From the HERE City National Desk
MCMINNVILLE, Ore. — Three people died Thursday afternoon after two helicopters collided in the air and fell into a farm field a few miles from McMinnville Municipal Airport, according to the Yamhill County Sheriff's Office. The crash happened around 2 p.m. southeast of the city, close to where Southeast Stringtown…
Politics
ROCK HILL, S.C. — With the U.S. Senate election five days away, both campaigns have spent the week in Rock Hill, the hometown of a Republican whose name is not on the ballot: U.S. Rep. Ralph Norman. Norman lost the GOP Senate runoff to Sen. Darline Graham by 5 points…
Politics
ROCK HILL, S.C. — President Donald Trump is set to headline a midterm campaign rally in Rock Hill on Thursday, using the Rock Hill Sports and Event Center at 326 Technology Center Way to push for Republican Sen. Darline Graham five days before the Nov. 3 election. Graham is defending…
From the HERE City State Desk
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Gov. Henry McMaster has filled out the panel he created last week to steer South Carolina land and heritage protection. The governor announced 25 appointees to the Governor's Conservation Commission on Thursday, drawn from business, landowning and academic circles. They will sit with several state leaders who…
Health
ROCK HILL, S.C. — State health officials confirmed Wednesday that a bat picked up near the corner of Pinewood and Belleview roads in Rock Hill was carrying rabies. According to the South Carolina Department of Public Health, the animal reached its lab on Oct. 23, and testing came back positive…
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