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SportsFLORENCE, S.C. — Francis Marion's women lost their first game of the season 86-83 in overtime to Shaw on Tuesday at the Smith University Center in Florence. Junior guard Terriana Gray scored a career-best 22 points, adding seven assists and six rebounds on 8-of-13 shooting.…
From the HERE City State DeskCHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Ally Tipoff turned lopsided early Sunday night as top-ranked South Carolina handled the 12th-ranked Tar Heels, 84-39. Chloe Kitts, who missed the entire 2025-26 season while recovering from a knee injury, led the Gamecocks with 17 points and 10 rebounds. Joyce…
From the HERE City State Desk
CHARLESTON, S.C. — College-bound high school seniors anywhere in South Carolina can now apply for as much as $10,000 toward their first year of college, after the Meeting Street Scholarship Fund opened its application to every county for the 2027-28 school year on Monday. This is the first year the…
From the HERE City State Desk
COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina is on track for an estimated $18 million surplus in the Education Improvement Act money that pays for many state school programs, and the Education Oversight Committee is using the cushion as a reason to ask hard questions about what those programs deliver. The committee…
Business
FLORENCE, S.C. — MUSC Health leaders cut the ribbon Monday on a new west Florence medical center that puts emergency care and walk-in urgent care in a single building, a first for the Pee Dee region. The center is a joint project of Intuitive Health and the Florence hospital run…
From Merger Monday
On Tuesday the U.S. government paid 5% to borrow for 10 years. On the same day a five-year-old AI company asked public investors to value it at as much as $1.4 trillion. Both things can be true, and the gap between them says a lot about where capital is going. Start…
From Merger Monday
Akamai Technologies Inc. borrowed $2.2 billion at 1% by selling investors a piece of its stock’s upside, the latest technology company to tap the convertible-bond market to pay for computing capacity. The Cambridge, Mass., content-delivery and security company priced $1.1 billion of convertible senior notes due 2028 and $1.1 billion due…
Politics
LAKE CITY, S.C. — The Florence County Board of Elections will hold a formal hearing at 10 a.m. Friday, Nov. 13, on a protest of the Lake City mayoral election. Mayor Yamekia Robinson filed the protest and wants the board to order a runoff. The board scheduled the hearing at…
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