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From HERE ColumbiaCOLUMBIA, S.C. — Tyasha Harris, the point guard who helped South Carolina women’s basketball win its first national title, heads back to Columbia this week to enter the athletics Hall of Fame run by the university’s Association of Lettermen. The 2026 class is inducted Thursday,…
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 the HERE City National DeskORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — The Buffalo Bills have parted ways with safety C.J. Gardner-Johnson, the team said Tuesday, one day after he finished serving a one-game league suspension. The NFL suspended the 28-year-old after he spat toward Las Vegas Raiders players during a Week 6…
From the HERE City National DeskENGLEWOOD, Colo. — The Denver Broncos signed three players to their practice squad Tuesday as injuries thinned the backfield before this week's road game at Carolina. The additions are running back Jaret Patterson, defensive tackle Jordan Miller and defensive back Ugo Amadi. To make room,…
From the HERE City National DeskNILES, Ohio — Niles City School District will replace the playing surface with new artificial turf at Bo Rein Memorial Field at Niles McKinley High School with help from a grant through the NFL Foundation and Local Initiatives Support Corporation Grassroots Field Grant Program, the…
From the HERE City National DeskLAS VEGAS, Nev. — First-year Raiders back Mike Washington Jr. is one of the nominees for the league's Week 8 Rookie of the Week award after a heavy workload in Sunday's 38-33 win over the New York Jets. Washington ran 25 times for 83 yards…
From the HERE City National DeskMANCHESTER, England — Manchester United supporters briefly stopped Tuesday's Champions League match against Roma at Old Trafford by throwing tennis balls onto the field in a protest aimed at the club's owners, and by the final whistle the same crowd was celebrating a 3-2 comeback…
From the HERE City National DeskLOS ANGELES, Calif. — The NBA has wiped a technical foul off Luka Doncic's record, leaving the Los Angeles Lakers star with just one so far this season. Doncic was hit with the technical with 1:12 to go in the second quarter of Monday's home…
From the HERE City National DeskOCEANSIDE, Calif. — Yuki Kawamura is back in the G League and says his goal has not changed. The Japanese guard told reporters Tuesday that he wants a full NBA contract and a defined role on an NBA roster. Kawamura, 25, spent the preseason with…
From the HERE City National DeskBRUNSWICK, Maine — Bowdoin College said Tuesday that B.J. Hammer is no longer head coach of its football program, with the change taking effect Nov. 1. The move follows a leave of absence that began Oct. 22, partway through Hammer's seventh year with the Polar…
From the HERE City National DeskROME, Italy — It took UFC bantamweight Raul Rosas Jr. just 43 seconds on Tuesday to force a tap from Colby Covington, who once held the interim UFC welterweight belt, in the Hype Fighting Italy headliner at PalaPellicone. Rosas, the 22-year-old bantamweight, took the 10-minute,…
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 State Desk
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Fifteen South Carolina school districts are getting cash awards for filling cafeteria trays with food grown in the state, the South Carolina Department of Agriculture announced, wrapping up the first season of its Certified SC Cafeteria program. The top five buyers each receive $10,000: Greenville County Schools,…
From the HERE City State Desk
COLUMBIA, S.C. — State Superintendent Ellen Weaver will spend four more years steering South Carolina's 72 public school districts after the Republican defeated Democrat Sylvia Wright on Tuesday in the tightest race of her career. Weaver drew 1,031,719 votes, or 50.98%, in unofficial returns. About 56,000 votes separated her from…
Events
AIKEN, S.C. — A gallery of decorated holiday trees returns to downtown Aiken next month. The city’s Parks, Recreation and Tourism Department will open the 2026 Festival of Trees with a tree lighting ceremony at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 2. The display fills the Center for African American History,…
Events
AIKEN, S.C. — People curious about the Savannah River Site near Aiken can now sign up for a look inside during 2027. The site’s Tours and Protocol Office has opened registration for 21 driving tours of facilities and operations, plus a separate slate of historic tours. The historic program centers…
From the HERE City State Desk
CHARLESTON, S.C. — 3M has agreed to pay $7.35 billion over nine years to settle personal injury claims tied to PFAS chemicals in firefighting foam, the company announced Tuesday, resolving the heart of a sprawling national case that has been heard in federal court in South Carolina. A single federal…
Politics
AIKEN, S.C. — Voters in House District 86 chose Republican Tommy Paradise over Democrat Malcolm Green on Nov. 3, handing him the open seat that crosses Aiken and Lexington counties. Early unofficial tallies had Paradise at 9,052 and Green at 6,503, or roughly three-fifths of the ballots reported from the…
Politics
AIKEN, S.C. — Christy Spradley, a Midland Valley graduate making her first run for office, has won the District 6 seat on the Aiken County Board of Education in a race where neither she nor the incumbent appeared on the ballot. County election officials declared the result on Nov. 4,…
Politics
AIKEN, S.C. — Voters returned four sitting members of the Aiken County Board of Education to office on Tuesday, Nov. 3, while the outcome in District 6 is still unknown because that race was decided entirely by write-in ballots. Jim Broome in District 2, Brian Silas in District 3, Barry…
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