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SportsSAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — The Memphis Grizzlies looked beaten in San Francisco with less than four minutes to play Friday night, then closed on a 17-0 run and stole a 111-108 road win from the Golden State Warriors on a Cameron Boozer jumper with 20…
From the HERE City State DeskCOLUMBIA, S.C. — Fresh off a statement win over Alabama, No. 11 Tennessee takes its four-game road winning streak to Williams-Brice Stadium on Saturday for a 3:30 p.m. Eastern meeting with South Carolina. The Volunteers are 6-1 and 3-1 in the SEC. After losing their…
From the HERE City State DeskNASHVILLE, Tenn. — One week after finally getting into the win column, the Tennessee Titans return to Nissan Stadium on Sunday to see whether they can stack two in a row against a Cleveland team sitting near the top of its division. Kickoff is set…
From the HERE City State DeskPITTSBURGH, Pa. — The Nashville Predators get a quick chance to wash away one of their worst nights of the season when they face the Penguins on Saturday night at PPG Paints Arena. Two nights earlier in Boston, the Bruins scored twice in each period…
From the HERE City National DeskMILWAUKEE, Wis. — The Milwaukee Brewers had to win the opener of the World Series twice on Friday night, holding off the Tampa Bay Rays 3-2 at American Family Field after a replay review erased what everyone in the ballpark thought was the final out.…
From the HERE City National DeskMILWAUKEE, Wis. — It took Jacob Misiorowski exactly one throw to put his name in the World Series record book. The Brewers right-hander began Friday night’s opener against Tampa Bay with a four-seam fastball clocked at 103.5 mph by Statcast, the hardest pitch thrown in…
From the HERE City National DeskCHICAGO — The NFL has docked Chicago Bears quarterback Caleb Williams $11,941 for the cleats he wore in Atlanta, ruling that the shoes broke league uniform and equipment rules because they carried a logo the league has not approved. The league notified Williams by letter…
From the HERE City National DeskNEW YORK — Dalton Knecht has a new NBA home. The New York Knicks finalized a two-way contract with the 25-year-old forward on Friday and put Kevin McCullar Jr. on waivers to clear the spot. Knecht became available when the Los Angeles Lakers let him…
From the HERE City National DeskTALLADEGA, Ala. — Sammy Smith picked the last trip through the tri-oval to make his move Friday, slipping past Ty Majeski in a two-lap overtime dash to win the Craftsman Truck Series race at Talladega Superspeedway, his first victory in the series. Smith drove the…
From the HERE City National DeskMORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Honor Huff, the sharpshooting guard who spent last season at West Virginia, intends to put his name in the NCAA transfer portal while he presses a court case to win one more year of college basketball. His representatives announced the plan Friday.…
From the HERE City National DeskCOLUMBIA, S.C. — Dawn Staley landed another of the top prospects in the 2027 class on Friday when Jordyn Palmer, a five-star wing from Westtown School in suburban Philadelphia, announced she will play for South Carolina. Palmer is rated among the top 10 players in…
From the HERE City National DeskWASHINGTON — Britt McHenry, the former sports television reporter who joined the State Department as a press adviser this fall, is out of the job after a confrontation in the stands at a Washington Wizards game went viral. McHenry resigned Friday, two days after the…
Education
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Whitehaven High School students in south Memphis are getting a two-day break they did not plan for, after a power outage on campus forced the school to close Thursday and Friday. Memphis-Shelby County Schools said the outage knocked out critical systems across the Whitehaven campus, leaving the…
From the HERE City State Desk
JASPER, Tenn. — Valmont Industries plans to put $45 million more into its Marion County plant and hire 84 additional workers, state economic development officials said Friday. The new money will go toward turning out more of the engineered steel structures that utilities use for transmission lines, distribution lines and…
From the HERE City State Desk
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee farmers and foresters will be able to keep running tax-exempt dyed diesel on public roads through the end of the year, after Gov. Bill Lee agreed to stretch a temporary relief program that had been set to expire with October. The extension was announced Friday in…
From the HERE City State Desk
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee voters deciding Constitutional Amendment 1 are weighing a change to the state guarantee of pretrial bail, and a new nonprofit analysis says the measure could reach as many as 144 more criminal offenses. Today the state constitution says nearly every jailed defendant can be released on…
From the HERE City State Desk
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Independent candidate David Hatley is pointing to a poll his campaign commissioned that shows him in front in the northeast corner of the state, even as a separate statewide survey has Republican Marsha Blackburn holding a comfortable lead in the race for governor. The Hatley survey, a…
From the HERE City National Desk
LOS ANGELES — California has until noon Saturday to answer the federal government in a fast-moving fight over whether about 20,000 mail ballots should be pulled aside before the Nov. 3 midterm election, after the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued an order late Friday. The Justice Department went…
From the HERE City State Desk
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — After more than a decade of steady gains, Tennessee is losing ground on health coverage, and a new policy brief warns that the most recent numbers probably understate the shift. The Sycamore Institute reported this week that 9.7 percent of Tennesseans had no health insurance in 2024,…
From the HERE City National Desk
CUPERTINO, Calif. — Apple first folding iPhone had barely reached customers before some owners began posting photos of inner screens that had split along the hinge, an early worry for a phone that sells for about $2,000. The iPhone Duo went on sale Friday, Oct. 23, reaching buyers in China…
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