The Hokies won their first game in the third edition of the ACC/SEC Challenge.

Texas has climbed to No. 2 in the AP Top 25 women's basketball poll after defeating two top teams in a Thanksgiving tournament.

Jordan Lee scored 19 points and Rori Harmon made a 10-foot floater with a second left to lift No. 4 Texas over No. 2 South Carolina 66-64 in the women’s title game of the Players Era Championship.

Texas’ Arch Manning started the season as a top Heisman Trophy contender.

The family of enslaved potter David Drake — known as “Dave the Potter” — has reclaimed two rare stoneware jars he created in South Carolina before the Civil War in what experts call the first major U.S. art restitution case involving works made by an enslaved person.

Joyce Edwards had 17 points and 10 rebounds as No. 2 South Carolina defeated eighth-ranked Southern California 69-52.

A Texas trooper who had an altercation with South Carolina’s Nyck Harbor after his touchdown was sent home from the game, according to the state Department of Public Safety.

Marcel Reed threw for a career-high 439 yards and three touchdowns and No. 3 Texas A&M rallied from a 27-point halftime deficit to remain undefeated with a 31-30 victory over South Carolina.

A new strip club with live entertainers could open soon on Franklin Road, marking the first such venue in Roanoke in years. But the plan is not finalized.

The Democratic National Committee has started planning for the next presidential primary elections, potentially changing the early-voting calendar again.

Germie Bernard scored two touchdowns in the final 2 1/2 minutes, and No. 4 Alabama rallied to beat South Carolina 29-22 for its seventh straight win.

Some seniors say the Social Security Administration's cost-of-living adjustment won’t help much in their ability to pay for their daily expenses.

John Mateer threw for 150 yards and a touchdown while Oklahoma's defense sacked South Carolina's LaNorris Sellers six times in the 14th-ranked Sooners' bounce-back 26-7 victory.

A sheriff says his deputies continue their methodical investigation into a shooting at a South Carolina bar that killed four people and injured 16 others.

Authorities have identified four people who were killed during a weekend mass shooting at a bar on a South Carolina island.

South Carolina senior forward Chloe Kitts has announced she will miss the entire 2025 season after tearing her ACL.

A mass shooting at a crowded bar on the idyllic South Carolina island of St. Helena has left four people dead and at least 20 injured.

Tropical weather in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans is causing dangerous conditions in the United States, Mexico and the Caribbean.

South Carolina's top law enforcement official says state agents have so far found no evidence that a fire destroying a judge's home on a South Carolina island was intentionally set.

Georgia farmers are still waiting for aid after Hurricane Helene, even as other states finalize agreements.

Rain will be very beneficial to the area!

Crews have been preparing for a weather system forecast to hit South Carolina as a hurricane early next week.

Crews are preparing for a weather system forecast to near South Carolina as a hurricane early next week.

Former South Carolina quarterback Connor Shaw is in stable condition after collapsing while coaching his son’s flag football team.

Vanderbilt checked a big item off its to-do list by beating South Carolina.

AP Top 25 ballots became even tougher to perfect as the dust settled on Week 3 of college football.

Vicari Swain returned a punt 80 yards for a touchdown to break open a close game, LaNorris Sellers threw a 64-yard touchdown pass to Nyck Harbor, and No. 13 South Carolina beat Virginia Tech 24-11 in the opener for both teams.

On Sunday, Virginia Tech took on South Carolina at Williams-Brice Stadium. Despite losing a tough game, Hokie fans showed out at bars around the Roanoke and New River Valleys.

The South Carolina Gamecocks beat the Virginia Tech Hokies 24-11 on Saturday.

Former longtime Virginia Tech coach Frank Beamer showed up for the Hokies’ season opener on Sunday against South Carolina, which is coached by son Shane Beamer, wearing Gamecocks black.

“He’s definitely on his own path,” Frank said.

Dawn Staley said she would have felt compelled to leave South Carolina for the New York Knicks head coaching job if she'd been offered the position.

The Democratic National Committee is seriously considering scrambling the party’s next presidential primary calendar.

The stage is set between Virginia Tech and 13th-ranked South Carolina in the Aflac Kickoff on Sunday. The Hokies will unveil a newer offense with the addition of offensive coordinator Phillip Montgomery, and quarterback Kyron Drones said it will be anything but boring.

GE Appliances plans to shift production of refrigerators, gas ranges and water heaters out of China and Mexico as part of a more than $3 billion investment to expand its U.S. operations.

Workers at a South Carolina site that once made nuclear bomb parts have found a radioactive wasp nest.

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is set to headline a major Republican event in South Carolina.

A 12-year-old boy has died from a brain-eating amoeba after swimming in a South Carolina lake over the July Fourth weekend.

Two weeks after spending the Fourth of July on a popular South Carolina lake, 12-year-old Jaysen Carr died from a brain-eating amoeba that was living in the warm water.

A chief architect of Project 2025 is launching a Republican primary challenge to Sen. Lindsey Graham in South Carolina.

Tropical Storm Chantal has been downgraded to a tropical depression but is raising concerns of flash flooding in central North Carolina and south-central Virginia.

Tropical Storm Chantal has formed off the southeastern U.S. coast.

The Supreme Court is letting South Carolina block Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood.

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster has held a ceremonial bill signing in the hot summer sun to assure the air conditioners across the state will keep humming well into the future.

Mother Emanuel AME church made an ecumenical gesture for the commemoration of a racist shooting that killed nine of its Black members 10 years ago on Tuesday.

The Alleghany Sheriff’s Office announced Monday that they had charged a registered sex offender in South Carolina for using a communication system to facilitate offenses involving minors.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has keynoted the Democratic state conventions in South Carolina.

Authorities say a 19-year-old has been taken into custody in Illinois and they plan to charge him in a shooting that hurt 11 people after a party boat cruise in South Carolina.

Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people.

Authorities say 10 people were shot during a fight that started on a private boat holding a holiday weekend party on the South Carolina coast.

The 2025 Aflac Kickoff Game between Virginia Tech and South Carolina will kick off at 3 p.m. ET on Sunday, Aug. 31

Congress has voted to kill a rule requiring U.S. rubber tire makers to clean up planet-warming emissions from their manufacturing processes.

A shooting in the popular South Carolina tourist town of Myrtle Beach left 11 people injured, and police fatally shot one person, authorities said.

South Carolina guard MiLaysia Fulwiley is officially in the transfer portal, according to a person with access to it.

A firing squad has executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer decades ago.

UConn has capped its season at No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25 women’s basketball poll one day after winning its 12th national championship.

Women’s college basketball has been on the rise these last few years, riding the wave of iconic players like Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese, Paige Bueckers and JuJu Watkins.

The journey has been more challenging than usual, but Dawn Staley and defending national champion South Carolina are still getting the job done.

Defending national champion South Carolina left no doubt it would return to the title game, getting 14 points from Te-Hina Paopao and overwhelming Texas 74-57 in the Final Four of the women’s NCAA Tournament.

Three of four teams in the women’s Final Four are No. 1 seeds.

The Supreme Court appeared divided Wednesday in a case over whether states should be able to cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood in arguments that come amid a wider push from abortion opponents to defund the nation’s leading abortion provider.

The Supreme Court will hear arguments in a South Carolina case over whether states can cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood.

The women’s Final Four is full of star players, top seeds and historic programs.

Chloe Kitts scored 14 points and defending national champion South Carolina reached the Final Four of the women’s NCAA Tournament for a fifth straight year, beating Duke 54-50.

Dawn Staley has seen a lot of growth in South Carolina star guard MiLaysia Fulwiley over the last few months.

MiLaysia Fulwiley scored 23 points, including a go-ahead layup with 2:22 left, and Chloe Kitts added 15 points and 11 rebounds to help No. 1 seed South Carolina beat fourth-seeded Maryland 71-67 in the Sweet 16 of the women's NCAA Tournament.

Oluchi Okananwa had her third double-double of the season and Duke beat Atlantic Coast Conference rival North Carolina 47-38 in a grind-it-out defensive battle, sending the Blue Devils to the Elite Eight of the women’s NCAA Tournament.

A large wildfire in the South Carolina mountains has doubled in size on each of the last three days.

At least a half-dozen large wildfires continue to burn in the Blue Ridge Mountains of South Carolina and North Carolina.

Major anti-abortion groups have gathered in the nation's capital to begin a lobbying effort with Congress and President Donald Trump’s administration aimed at eliminating funding for Planned Parenthood.

Firefighters have announced progress on containing two of the largest wildfires burning in the North Carolina mountains, but are warning that fire danger remains from dry and windy conditions.

Wildfires forced a mandatory evacuation in one North Carolina county as emergency crews fought separate fires in an area of the state still recovering from Hurricane Helene, while South Carolina’s governor declared an emergency in response to a growing wildfire. The North Carolina Department of Public Safety issued a mandatory evacuation Saturday night for parts of Polk County in western North Carolina. The agency warns residents could be trapped, injured, or killed if they remain in the impacted areas. In South Carolina, Gov. Henry McMaster has declared a state of emergency as part of an effort to stop a blaze in Pickens County called the Table Rock Fire that started Friday in the Blue Ridge Mountains

Bree Hall had 11 points and Chloe Kitts scored all her 10 points in the second half as top seed South Carolina pulled away after trailing at halftime to beat ninth-seeded Indiana 64-53 in the women's NCAA Tournament and reach the Sweet 16 for the 11th straight time.

March Madness has mostly been March Predictable in the women’s NCAA Tournament so far.

South Carolina coach Dawn Staley has built a powerhouse, not unlike what Connecticut and Tennessee accomplished in previous decades.

The top seeds continued to roll in the second round of the women’s NCAA Tournament, including UCLA, South Carolina and TCU.

Three No. 1 seeds will be in the Final Four of the women’s NCAA Tournament.

Congratulations to the 12 teams left in the chase for the women’s Division I national championship.

March Madness brackets have been revealed.

UCLA is the top overall seed in the women’s NCAA Tournament.

At least three-quarters of South Carolina’s House members approved the more than 100 sections of the state’s $14 billion spending plan this week.

UCLA, South Carolina, Texas and Southern California have all stated their cases for No. 1 seeds in the NCAA Tournament with their stellar play this season.

Madison Booker scored 25 points, and No. 1 Texas held on to beat ninth-ranked LSU 56-49 on Saturday night to advance to the Southeastern Conference Tournament championship game.

An Associated Press journalist has served as a media eyewitness to the execution of Brad Sigmon by firing squad Friday in South Carolina.

A South Carolina man has been executed by firing squad, becoming the first U.S. prisoner in 15 years to die by this method.

Firing squads have a long and storied history in the U.S. They've served as a punishment for mutiny in colonial times, a way to discourage desertion during the Civil War and a dose of frontier justice in the Old West.

Southern California has its best ranking in 39 years after moving up to No. 2 in The Associated Press women’s basketball Top 25 on Monday.

Lighter winds in South Carolina and North Carolina are helping firefighters battle blazes that caused evacuations and threatened hundreds of homes over the weekend.

South Carolina will be the No. 1 seed in the Southeastern Conference women’s basketball tournament after winning a coin flip.

Crews battled wildfires in North and South Carolina amid dry conditions and gusty winds as residents were forced to evacuate in some areas.

The regular season titles in the four major conferences will come down to the final week of the season as league play wraps up this weekend.

Gov. Glenn Youngkin was appointed as a co-chair of the Council of Governors, the White House announced on Wednesday.

Notre Dame ascended to No. 1 in The Associated Press women’s basketball poll Monday, becoming the third team to reach that spot this season.

Azzi Fudd scored 28 points and No. 7 UConn ended No. 4 South Carolina’s 71-game home winning streak with an 87-58 victory Sunday.

UCLA, South Carolina, Texas and Notre Dame would be the No. 1 seeds in the women’s NCAA Tournament if it began now.

Legislation to let Volkswagen-backed Scout Motors sell its electric SUVs directly to people in South Carolina, where the vehicles will be built, has stalled after fierce opposition from traditional automobile dealers.

Lawyers for South Carolina and Planned Parenthood are returning to the state’s highest court to argue how restrictive the state's abortion ban should be.

Madison Booker is The Associated Press women's college basketball player of the week.

Notre Dame has moved up to No. 2 in the Associated Press women’s basketball Top 25 for its best ranking since 2019.

Madison Booker had 20 points and 11 rebounds, and Rori Harmon hit two critical free throws in the final seconds as No. 4 Texas beat No. 2 South Carolina 66-62 Sunday, ending the Gamecocks’ 57-game Southeastern Conference regular-season winning streak dating to 2021.