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From the HERE City State DeskATHENS, Ga. — Top-ranked Georgia never let No. 22 Missouri settle in Saturday, scoring the first 31 points of the afternoon on the way to a 48-21 Southeastern Conference win at Sanford Stadium. The victory lifts the Bulldogs to 9-1 overall and 7-1 in league…
From the HERE City State DeskATLANTA, Ga. — Georgia Southern spotted rival Georgia State two early touchdowns off its own mistakes Saturday, then took control and pulled away for a 34-17 win in downtown Atlanta that makes the Eagles bowl eligible for the fifth season in a row. The victory…
From the HERE City State DeskCLEMSON, S.C. — Georgia Tech went into Memorial Stadium on a four-game losing streak and came out with one of its most satisfying wins in years, grinding out a 20-6 victory over Clemson on Saturday for its first win at Death Valley since 2008. The…
From the HERE City State DeskATLANTA, Ga. — The Falcons return to Mercedes-Benz Stadium on Sunday needing a turnaround, and the opponent standing in the way is Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs. Kickoff is at 1 p.m. Atlanta is 3-6 and has dropped two straight, a 16-0 shutout…
From HERE ColumbiaCOLUMBIA, S.C. — Four turnovers and a string of empty trips inside the 20 sent the Gamecocks home to Columbia, South Carolina, with a 34-6 loss at Arkansas on Saturday night. The defeat ended a four-game South Carolina winning streak. South Carolina was missing starting…
From HERE ColumbiaCOLUMBIA, S.C. — Aleksas Bieliauskas set a career high with 23 points Saturday afternoon, and South Carolina pulled away in the second half to beat Gardner-Webb 79-62 at Colonial Life Arena in Columbia, South Carolina. The Gamecocks are 4-0. Bieliauskas supplied all of South Carolina's…
From HERE ClintonCLINTON, S.C. — Clinton's Presbyterian College football team spent Saturday afternoon in Kentucky digging out of a deep hole, and came up one play short. The Blue Hose fell 28-25 at Morehead State after trailing by 18 points at the break. Morehead State put up…
From HERE ColumbiaCOLUMBIA, S.C. — The top-ranked women's basketball team from Columbia, South Carolina, heads up Interstate 26 on Sunday for a matchup of two schools that share the same two-letter nickname. No. 1 South Carolina faces No. 3 Southern Cal in The Real SC event at…
From the HERE City State Desk
ATLANTA, Ga. — A new federal tax break for donations to scholarship groups kicks in on Jan. 1, and public school districts across Georgia are trying to figure out whether it will bring them new money or pull dollars away. The program, created under the federal tax and spending law…
From the HERE City State Desk
ATLANTA, Ga. — A technical number buried in Georgia Power's latest search for new electricity supply is becoming a point of contention as the state's largest utility plans another large expansion of its grid. Georgia Power wants to line up 2,000 to 6,000 megawatts of new dispatchable capacity to cover…
From Merger Monday
For most of the past two years, the question in big deals was whether the money would show up. It did. This week the question changed to who else gets a vote. Start with Covetrus and MWI. A buyout-backed distributor agreed in March to buy its largest rival for $3.5 billion.…
From Merger Monday
Banks running the initial public offering of Anthropic PBC are turning away orders from investors in mainland China and Hong Kong, people familiar with the deal said, as the artificial-intelligence company heads into the final days before pricing what could be the largest listing on record. Several underwriters have refused orders…
Crime
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Two Savannah men are headed to federal prison for 111 months apiece after they turned on an undercover ATF agent during a sale of a stolen handgun last November, the Southern District of Georgia U.S. Attorney's Office announced Friday. Terry Rashad Flaggs, 19, along with Jaidyn Jaquan…
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