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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…
Education
AIKEN, S.C. — Classes at Silver Bluff High School in Aiken County were back to normal Thursday after a morning safety lockdown tied to a tip that someone had a gun in the parking lot, a claim deputies later found unsupported. Aiken County Sheriff Maj. Jason Griffin said deputies reached…
From HERE Chapin
CHAPIN, S.C. — Chapin-area voters helped fill two Lexington County seats on the Lexington-Richland School District Five board, with Kim Gilbert and Jennifer G. Rice leading unofficial returns from the Nov. 3 election. Gilbert finished with 9,846 votes, or about 32.36 percent, and Rice followed with 9,573 votes (31.46 percent)…
From HERE Lexington
LEXINGTON, S.C. — Challengers Chris Shealy and Dana Homesley led the Lexington County School District One board race in unofficial returns, while board secretary Chris Rice kept a seat among three at-large openings. Shealy topped the field with 16,608 votes, or about 17.19 percent of ballots counted. Homesley followed with…
Events
AIKEN, S.C. — The Salvation Army of Aiken and First Baptist Church are racing to replace a lost turkey donor ahead of their free Come to the Table Thanksgiving gathering on Nov. 26, set for late morning through early afternoon inside the church fellowship hall. Capt. Michael Good of the…
From HERE Irmo
IRMO, S.C. — Town leaders will mark Veterans Day at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 11, at Irmo Veterans Park, 15 Palmetto Wood Parkway, with a public program for families, veterans and active-duty members. Mayor Bill Danielson is listed to introduce guests. Shelly Langston of the Navy, South Carolina's Military Women's…
From HERE Augusta
GROVETOWN, Ga. — Crowds streamed into the Grovetown fairgrounds Thursday night as the 61st annual Columbia County Fall Fair kicked off a multi-week run that continues through Nov. 15. Organizers opened the gates in the late afternoon, and the earliest wave of visitors — the first 250 through the turnstiles…
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…
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 Lexington
Lexington, S.C. — Town detectives opened a multi-agency probe Thursday into storefronts accused of putting scheduled drugs and related gear out for buyers. Chief Terrence Green said the Lexington Police Department Criminal Investigations Division is running the inquiry. Crews executed search warrants at the sites on Nov. 5. Energy Express…
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,…
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