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From the HERE City State DeskORANGEBURG, S.C. — South Carolina State is MEAC football champion for the third year in a row after the Bulldogs shut out North Carolina Central over the final two quarters Saturday and pulled away for a 38-24 win at Oliver C. Dawson Stadium. The victory…
From HERE Columbia
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Anyone thinking about bringing home a dog can meet a few candidates over a pint Sunday in Columbia, South Carolina. Columbia Animal Services is holding its fall Pups & Pints adoption event and donation drive from 1 to 4 p.m. Hunter-Gatherer Brewery & Alehouse is hosting the…
Business
LEXINGTON, S.C. — A locally owned flooring company that set up shop on Augusta Road in Lexington, S.C., this fall will mark its arrival with a public ribbon cutting next week. Mid-State Floor Coverings plans the grand opening ceremony for 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 17, at its store at 5341…
From HERE Greenwood
GREENWOOD, S.C. — The empty JCPenney anchor at Greenwood Mall could move a step closer to a second life Monday, Nov. 16, when Greenwood City Council considers a resolution certifying the building as an abandoned building site under South Carolina’s Abandoned Buildings Revitalization Act. The resolution covers the former department…
From the HERE City State Desk
WOODRUFF, S.C. — BMW has started building high-voltage batteries in southern Spartanburg County, opening a $700 million assembly plant on Nov. 13 that will feed the first fully electric vehicle the automaker builds in the United States. Gov. Henry McMaster joined company executives and local officials for the opening of…
From HERE Florence
TIMMONSVILLE, S.C. — One person is in critical condition after firefighters found the occupant inside a burning home in Timmonsville on Saturday evening and carried them out, Florence County Fire Rescue said. The call came in around 6 p.m. as a report of an outside fire in the 200 block…
From the HERE City State Desk
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Certified results from South Carolina’s Nov. 3 election show how Democrats pulled off their best showing in the state in decades: a wave of Black voters, a sharp jump in young voters and a record share of straight-party ballots. Democrat Annie Andrews defeated appointed U.S. Sen. Darline…
From the HERE City State Desk
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Flu has arrived in South Carolina weeks ahead of its usual pace, and state health data show it spreading widely across the state before Thanksgiving travel even begins. The state Department of Public Health counted 1,489 lab-confirmed flu cases in the week that ended Nov. 7, pushing…
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