South Carolina State

Columbus, OH

Clemson, SC

Athlon Sports

Dabo Swinney’s Odds Of Being First College Football Head Coach Fired This Season Revealed

Georgia State

247Sports

The Week 1 slate for the 2024 college football season is packed with marquee matchups, but few are as highly anticipated as No. 14 Clemson facing off against top-ranked Georgia in Atlanta. This showdown is a centerpiece of the Aflac Kickoff Game, an annual event organized by the Peach Bowl. The neutral-site battle is staged at Mercedes-Benz Stadium, home of the Peach Bowl, with kickoff slated for noon ET on Aug. 31.

Peach Bowl CEO clarifies early kickoff decision for Clemson-Georgia Week 1 showdown

High School On SI

Vote to help select this week's winner from our list of nominees.

Vote: Who should be SBLive's Georgia high school softball Player of the Week (8/20/2024)?

The Daily Yonder

First, a brown recluse threatened Jerome Myers’ health. Then, it threatened his housing. After a lengthy hospital stay from the bite of the poisonous spider, Myers missed too many days of work to keep up with the rent for the land on which his mobile home sits. At the beginning of July, he received a court notification informing him he had 10 days to respond and schedule a hearing if he couldn’t immediately come up with the funds.

South Carolina Has an Eviction Problem

Jacksonville, FL

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Jacksonville Today

A historic marker could be erected to honor the victims of the racist mass shooting at the Dollar General store in Jacksonville’s New Town neighborhood nearly a year ago. If approved by the Jacksonville City Council, a marker would be installed at Kings Road and Canal Street on Aug. 25, a day before the first anniversary of the shooting, when a white gunman took the lives of three Black people.

Memorial considered to honor Dollar General victims

Charlotte, NC

A to Z Sports

It turns out there was little Bryce Young could do during his rookie season to play better.

The real reason behind Bryce Young's rookie struggles was finally revealed

A South Carolina man was taken into custody at T.F. Green International Airport after police say he tried to board a plane with nine-pounds of marijuana. Rhode Island State Police troopers arrested 25-year-old James Perry Tuesday and he's facing charges that include possession with intent to deliver marijuana. South Carolina...

SC Man Allegedly Tried To Board Plane With Nine-Pounds Of Marijuana

Crisp County, GA

Daily Coffee Press

On Wednesday, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation announced the arrest of 24 individuals following Operation Shyne Down. The GBI and other agencies served a total of 120 warrants on the suspects involved in the investigation, which targeted the criminal street gang G-Shyne Bloods and their involvement in criminal activities in Crisp County, Georgia.

Operation Results in More than 20 Charged with Gang Offenses, RICO, and more

Ohio State

The Lantern

On Tuesday, licensed Ohio dispensaries began legally selling non-medical marijuana to consumers; however, the drug’s possession, growth and/or usage are still prohibited on Ohio State’s campus. Credit: Jefferee Woo/Tampa Bay Times/TNS [Original caption: Four citizen-led petitions with proposals to update Dallas’ charter hit the 20,000 valid signature threshold to make it on the Nov. 5 election ballot, including one that would ban police officers from arresting or citing people carrying less than four ounces of marijuana.] As of Tuesday, students 21 and older can now legally purchase marijuana in Ohio.

Dispensary sales of recreational marijuana began Tuesday; possession and usage still prohibited on Ohio State’s campus

Florida State

Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters said he will consider more DUI patrols if voters legalize recreational marijuana use in Florida. Voters will consider Amendment 3 in November. It would allow adults 21 or older to possess, purchase or use marijuana products and marijuana accessories for non-medical purposes.

More DUI patrols possible if marijuana issue passes

Tampa, FL

Three men and a woman have been arrested on murder charges in connection with the fatal shooting of Charles Jones , a Jacksonville rapper known as Julio Foolio,” outside a hotel in Tampa.

4 arrested in slaying of Jacksonville rapper Julio Foolio

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Colleton County, SC

Explore Beaufort SC

Some beachgoers were in for a surprise this week when a bizarre looking prehistoric fish washed ashore in Colleton County along Edisto Beach at Edisto Beach State Park. It turned out to be an atlantic sturgeon.

Rare Atlantic sturgeon washes ashore on South Carolina beach

Wyoming State

WyoFile

There aren’t many advantages to working nights, Alan Nash says, but getting a glimpse of the aurora borealis is one. Nash, a locomotive engineer, photographed the green and magenta ribbons of light early Monday just south of Bill, Wyoming.

Northern lights brighten the night shift

Floyd County, GA

According to officials with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI), three former officers from the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC), one GDC investigator, and a former Floyd County deputy have been charged for the aggravated assault of an inmate at the Floyd County Jail.

Five Former Georgia Law Enforcement Officers Charged With Aggravated Assault Against Inmate

Louisiana State

Natrona County, WY

Houma, LA

A worker died Aug. 5 when the crane he was operating toppled at a wind farm construction site in remote Natrona County, state and local officials say. The victim, John William Hoffpauir, Jr., 55, of Houma, Louisiana, was working as a crane operator at the Cedar Springs wind energy construction site north of Casper and Glenrock under the control of Blattner Energy at the time of the accident. Hoffpauir was a Blattner Energy employee, a spokesperson for the company told WyoFile.

Worker killed in accident on wind energy construction site in Natrona County

Kentucky State

Northern Kentucky Tribune

The Kentucky Secretary of State on Friday announced 14,502 Kentuckians registered to vote in July. “Kentuckians are signing up to vote in big numbers, because they trust the integrity of our elections,” said Secretary of State Michael Adams.

Kentucky voter registrations increased by more than 14,500 in July, the most since 2022

Columbia, SC

COLUMBIA, S.C. – Fifth-year Khamal Stewart-Baynes downed a 35-year-old program record to highlight the University of Miami track field team’s first day at the Carolina Challenge on Friday. Stewart-Baynes crossed the finish line in 21.17 in the 200m to set a new all-time best mark in the school...

Stewart-Baynes Sets New School Record on Day One of the Carolina Challenge, Breaking a 35-Year-Old Benchmark

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SC high school football predictions for Upstate Week Zero: Can Byrnes stop TL Hanna?

It’s almost time for high school football to kick off the 2024 season. Here are the Upstate's top 10 games coming up Friday and Saturday nights...

SC high school football predictions for Upstate Week Zero: Can Byrnes stop TL Hanna?

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