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From HERE College StationCOLLEGE STATION, Texas — Texas A&M keeps the early-season schedule at home in College Station on Friday, bringing Northern Kentucky into Reed Arena for a tip set for 7 p.m. and streamed on SEC Network+. The Aggies sit at 1-0 after a 97-66 victory over…
From HERE ColumbiaCOLUMBIA, S.C. — Carey Rich is listed for the 2026-27 season as Director of Player Personnel and Relations for South Carolina mens basketball in Columbia after an offseason promotion on coach Lamont Paris staff. University athletics materials say Rich enters his fifth full season with…
From HERE ClemsonClemson, S.C. — Junior linebacker Sammy Brown is again the constant on a Clemson defense getting ready for a noon road kickoff at Syracuse on Nov. 7. He piled up 106 stops last fall and already has 51 tackles plus two sacks in 2026 for…
From HERE Hilton Head
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. — Hilton Head Island neighbors looking for a shared holiday meal can again take a free seat at Hudson's Seafood House on the Docks on Thursday, Nov. 26. Serving runs from 11 in the morning until 3 in the afternoon at 1 Hudson Road. Guests do…
From HERE Greenville
GREENVILLE, S.C. — Greenville filed suit against the builders behind The McDaniel townhomes on McBee Avenue, arguing runoff from the stalled site chewed up city ground reserved for a Swamp Rabbit Trail spur. Named on the complaint are a pair of McBee Townhomes entities along with Keene Development Group. The…
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…
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…
From HERE Atlanta
DECATUR, Ga. — DeKalb County Fire Rescue crews raced to a reported explosion Thursday evening at a hotel on Snapfinger Woods Drive in unincorporated Decatur, where an exterior wall was damaged and several windows were blown out. Dispatchers sent units about 6:09 p.m. to First Place Hotel, also listed as…
From HERE Savannah
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Another motorist slammed into parked patrol cars Thursday night while Savannah Police Department officers were already dealing with a stop on Interstate 516, the department said. The stop was under way on the I-516 segment by Veterans Parkway and DeRenne when the second vehicle struck the cruisers,…
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 HERE Hilton Head
Hilton Head Island, S.C. — Beaufort County voters chose Doug Seifert as their next sheriff on Nov. 3, clearing the way for the first leadership change at the agency in nearly 30 years when he takes over in January. Countywide results showed Seifert with 50,886 ballots, about 60 percent of…
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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