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Evans football bends, but doesn't break in season-opening thriller over Thomson
EVANS – Evans High School football rolled with the punches Friday night. The Knights bested Thomson 35-28 in a back-and-forth thriller in their season-opener at Blanchard Stadium. Coach Barrett Davis's message to his players seemed to ring true until the final whistle. “We thought we’d gotten better over the summer. We know, offensively, we’ve...
Nancy Mace Torched for Butchering Harris’s Name
What’s in a name? Well, save it, because Representative Nancy Mace doesn’t actually care. The South Carolina Republican, who has drifted further and further into the MAGA fold, made a disastrous appearance on CNN Thursday night. “Kamala’s, Ka-mala’s, uh—” Mace stumbled. “You had it right, you almost got it!” chided a smiling Keith Boykin, former Clinton White House aide.Mace began again, still mispronouncing Harris’s name wrong. “I will say Kama-la’s name any way that I want to,” Mace snapped, defensively. Boykin and another panelist, Vanderbilt University professor Michael Eric Dyson, erupted into protests not to mispronounce Harris’s name. But Mace...
South Carolina's COVID-19 surge sets the stage for a critical September update
Doctors say South Carolina is experiencing a summer surge in COVID-19 cases and recommend people with symptoms get tested. “It is slightly different [from] what the mRNA. It's very similar to last year, but it's ... adjusted a little bit to the newer strain," Dr. Helmet Albrecht with Prisma Health said. "So it's not a new technique, but a slightly different formula, what it covers. So, it goes with the evolution of the strain.”
Atlanta mom shoots 11-year-old daughter dead before turning gun on herself in murder-suicide
A mother in Atlanta reportedly shot her daughter dead before turning the gun on herself in a suspected murder-suicide. Police identified the woman as Qiana Rainley as identified by the county Medical Examiner as per FOX5. DeKalb County Police detailed in a statement: “At this time, it appears to be a murder-suicide involving a mother and her 11-year-old daughter. The investigation is ongoing.”
USC men’s basketball releases non-conference schedule
COLUMBIA, S.C. – South Carolina announced the non-conference portion of its 2024-25 men’s basketball schedule on Thursday. The Gamecocks will open the season on Monday, Nov. 4 at Colonial Life Arena against North Florida. The team will play nine of its 13 non-conference games at home highlighted by...
Parents voice concerns after 3 weapons, ammo found on Westwood High School students
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) -Richland School District Two confirms it’s investigating how a pocketknife was brought through metal detectors at Westwood High School Wednesday. According to the district, this was the third weapon brought on the school campus during the first week of school. Metal detectors at the school alerted...
Main Stage Band Lineup Announced for 50th Annual Irmo Okra Strut
Irmo, S.C. – Get ready to dance and sing along at the 50th Annual Lexington Medical Center Irmo Okra Strut, as the Town of Irmo proudly announces the lineup for the Prisma Health Amphitheater Main Stage. The event, scheduled for September 27 and 28 at Moore Park (7473 Church St., Irmo), promises an exciting weekend of music and entertainment.
Columbia furniture store Whit-Ash closes after 52 years
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - The Whit-Ash furniture store is officially closing its doors after 52 years in business. The whole building is forgoing a complete liquidation that started on Thursday. Whitney and Gerald Black, both brothers and decorated U.S. Navy veterans, started a water-bed business in the late 1960′s. After...
Newberry College football prepares for 2024 season
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Newberry College finished near the bottom of the SAC in 2023, a season after bringing home back-to-back conference titles. This year’s team is hungry to get back to where they know they belong. “A championship. I think that’s the main goal,” junior quarterback Izayah Whiteside...
Another South Carolina basketball alum gets his first professional contract
South Carolina basketball fans witnessed one of the best seasons in program history last year. Aside from the 2016-2017 Final Four run, the 2023-2024 Gamecocks put up the best year since the team's back-to-back NCAA Tournament teams in the 1990s (when they were a 2-seed and 3-seed in the Big Dance in consecutive years). Before that, nothing compared since the Frank McGuire era in the 1960s and 1970s. Lamont Paris' team managed to tie the program record for wins last year with their 26-8 mark, and the showing was good enough to tie the Gamecocks for 2nd place in the...
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