The University of South Carolina football team worked out for a little over two hours at the Bluff Road practice fields Wednesday afternoon as they continued preparations for Saturday’s regular season finale against the Clemson Tigers.

Since South Carolina isn’t playing for the
Southeastern Conference title, coach Steve Spurrier says Saturday’s
game against Clemson is the biggest game of the year.

Some South Carolina lawmakers think legalizing some forms of gambling could ease the state’s budget’s problems.

Devan Downey scored a season-high 25
points to lead South Carolina to an 85-70 victory over Gardner-Webb
on Tuesday night.

The University of South Carolina football team returned to the Bluff Road practice fields Monday afternoon as they began preparations for Saturday’s regular season finale against the Clemson Tigers.

South Carolina’s play this weekend could
go a long way to determining Clemson’s next head coach.

South Carolina absentee voters have nearly doubled turnout from 2004 levels.State Election Commission data released Monday shows more than 302,000 people have already voted in South Carolina. In 2004, the state recorded about 161,000 absentee votes.

Razorbacks and Gamecocks now an afternoon matchup

It was almost one year ago, on October 28th, when seven college students from South Carolina died in a North Carolina beach house fire. Now, friends and family members are remembering the victims, with new events to raise money for scholarships, in their honor. The first Carolina Remembrance Concert was Thursday night, in Columbia. It was to include a slide show to remember the six USC students, and one Clemson student, who died in the Ocean Isle beach fire, last year. WJBF News Channel 6’s Capitol reporter, Robert Kittle, has an exclusive interview with one of the survivors of that fire, about the last year for him, and what he wants everyone to know about the victims.

Federal aviation officials say tires on the doomed jet that crashed last month in South Carolina, killing four and injuring two others, shredded as the plane ran out of runway. The National Transportation Safety Board also said Wednesday that adhesive used on reflectors used to mark the runway in Columbia was found near debris from the tires of the Learjet that crashed on takeoff just before midnight Sept. 19.

An attraction worker at the South Carolina State Fair was killed on the final day of the event when he was struck by the ride. The State newspaper reported that Jeff Doucleff was killed Sunday afternoon when the Inverter hit him.

Authorities say a lake that borders South
Carolina and Georgia has dropped to an all-time low as the drought
continues.

The South Carolina football team returned to the practice field on Tuesday
afternoon for the first time since last Saturday’s game vs.  LSU. 

State lawmakers are still working on a plan to cut the state budget by more than $500 million, but one state agency has already taken steps in hopes of avoiding laying off employees. Department of Consumer Affairs employees agreed unanimously at a staff meeting Thursday to take a ten percent pay cut to save money.

Legislators will be back at their desks in Columbia to deal with plans to cut $488 million from the state’s $7 billion budget.