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From the HERE City State DeskWASHINGTON — Kickoff is 7:30 p.m. Eastern on ESPNU as ranked South Carolina State brings its perfect conference start into Greene Stadium for a Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference date with Howard. The Bulldogs sit at 7-2 and 2-0 under third-year coach Chennis Berry. They are coming…
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 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 Merger Monday
Private markets put two very different price tags on flying machines in the same news cycle. Shield AI raised money at a $28.8 billion valuation to buy radar maker Echodyne for $5.3 billion. Zipline raised $1.5 billion at $21.5 billion to push drone delivery from dozens of sites toward hundreds.…
From Merger Monday
Voters in Buncombe County, N.C., approved $70 million of new local bonds for affordable housing and open space, clearing the way for a municipal debt sale that county officials say will cost the median homeowner a few dozen dollars a year. Unofficial returns showed the $40 million housing question passing with…
From Merger Monday
Zipline International Inc. raised $1.5 billion at a $21.5 billion post-money valuation, betting that retail and ride-hailing partners will turn drone delivery from a pilot project into a national network. The round announced Thursday was led by Paradigm, WCM Investment Management and Layer Global. Valor Equity Partners, Fidelity Management & Research,…
Public Safety
BEAUFORT, S.C. — Beaufort Police Department officers tracked down two runaway piglets nicknamed Bacon Bits after the pair got loose in the city and led officers on a short foot chase. The department posted video of the chase on its Facebook page. A resident filming the scene caught officers in…
Politics
BEAUFORT, S.C. — Early ballots made up more than half of all votes counted in Beaufort County in Tuesday midterm election, a modern local record that tracked a surge statewide. County figures show 46,310 residents voted early out of 86,689 total ballots cast, about 53 percent of the local vote.…
Politics
BEAUFORT, S.C. — Beaufort County shoppers will pay a penny more on many purchases to pay for road projects after voters narrowly backed a transportation sales tax Tuesday in an election that drew more ballots than any in county history, unofficial results show. The transportation sales tax passed by a…
From the HERE City State Desk
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Local and national preservation groups are warning that a permitting overhaul now queued in Washington could shrink the say communities have when federally backed projects touch historic ground in South Carolina. Senate bill S. 5653 — known as the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act — lands…
Health
BEAUFORT, S.C. — Beaufort Memorial is pushing lung cancer screenings during Lung Cancer Awareness Month, with pulmonologist Dr. John P. Krcmarik saying early checks can catch a disease that still kills more people than almost any other cancer. Krcmarik said lung cancer accounts for about one in five cancer cases…
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