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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…
From HERE Beaufort
BEAUFORT, S.C. — The Beaufort County Veterans Day Parade steps off at 10 a.m. today, Wednesday, Nov. 11, beginning at Beaufort National Cemetery. Floats and marching units line up at 8 a.m. on Adventure Street. The route follows Boundary Street onto Bay Street and finishes at Boundary and Bladen streets.…
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…
From Merger Monday
The U.S. government will pay 5% a year for the next decade on its newest 10-year debt. The Treasury Department sold $42 billion of 10-year notes on Tuesday at a high yield of 5.02%, setting the coupon at 5%, in an auction that drew softer demand on the same day…
Politics
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Charleston wrapped up a new franchise deal with Dominion Energy South Carolina on Tuesday, Nov. 10. It supersedes the electric and gas agreements dating to 1996. The deal sets aside direct money for moving utility lines underground. For 2026, the agreement lists a contribution of $1,286,770 from…
Politics
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Charleston County leaders are looking at spending about $3 million to expand the Dungannon Heritage Preserve in Hollywood by roughly 608 acres. County Council was due to take up the request at its Tuesday, Nov. 10, meeting. The Open Space Institute Land Trust has applied for $3,072,300…
Politics
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Charleston City Council takes up a $495,000 construction contract at its 5 p.m. meeting Tuesday, Nov. 10, that would pay for the opening phase of an overhaul of the cracked and shifting bluestone sidewalks on Broad Street. The first stretch runs 742 feet, beginning where Broad meets…
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