Dry conditions, wind and trees downed by Hurricane Helene are fueling wildfires in North and South Carolina.

Firefighters in North and South Carolina are battling multiple wind-driven wildfires.

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.

Falling flakes stay miles away from Jacksonville, but winter weather is within reach.

Tens of thousands of students have left Florida’s public schools in recent years amid an explosive growth in school choice.

South Carolina, Iowa, USC and Texas are the top four teams in The Associated Press Top 25 women’s basketball poll, a day after all four were chosen as the No. 1 seeds in the NCAA Tournament that begins later this week.

The brother of LSU guard Flau'jae Johnson was arrested and charged with assault and battery and disorderly conduct after getting involved in his sister's scuffle with South Carolina forward Kamilla Cardoso.

Body camera recordings released by a sheriff’s office in South Carolina show deputies fired dozens of shots at an 81-year-old man who they said pointed a gun at them from the backyard of his home.

The COVID-19 pandemic changed the way that we work.

South Carolina started the new year where it finished off 2023 — atop The Associated Press women’s basketball poll.

Hunter Biden is set to appear in a California courtroom next month on nine tax counts, the latest fallout from a special counsel investigation into his business affairs.

The Icemen are getting good at this playoff thing.

The NCAA has gotten mostly positive reviews for its new women's Sweet 16 format during March Madness.

South Carolina is two wins away from completing the 10th undefeated season in women's college basketball history.

Alexis Morris hit two foul shots with 10 seconds to play as No. 3 seed LSU reached the Elite Eight for the first time since 2008, beating second-seeded Utah 66-63, Down 64-63, the Utes had a chance to back in front, but Jenna Johnson — a near 75% foul shooter — missed both attempts with 4.7 seconds to go.

South Carolina has joined an exclusive group, going wire-to-wire as No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25 women’s basketball poll.

South Carolina is six wins away from becoming the 10th women’s basketball team to go undefeated for an entire season, and the Gamecocks will enter the NCAA Tournament as the No. 1 overall seed.

South Carolina remains No. 1 in The Associated Press women's basketball poll for a 37th consecutive week.

Zia Cooke scored 24 points and Aliyah Boston added 18 as No. 1 South Carolina pulled away in the final two quarters to beat Tennessee 74-58 for the SEC championship.

Robyn Benton scored 20 points, Adebola Adeyeye had 11 points and 17 rebounds and No. 14 Kentucky beat 11th-seeded Florida 72-57 in an SEC Tournament game marred by a scuffle.

The final week of the regular season is here, the calendar rounding toward March Madness.

The top five spots in The Associated Press men’s college basketball poll remained the same.

The battle for the national championship in women’s basketball is on.

The matchup between Hall of Fame coaches Mike Krzyzewski of Duke and Tom Izzo of Michigan State highlights the final day of the NCAA Tournament's opening weekend.

Duke began retiring Hall of Famer Mike Krzyzewski’s final NCAA Tournament with minimal stress, beating Cal State Fullerton 78-61.

Governors and state lawmakers are prioritizing climate change as they write their state budgets, devoting money to lowering emissions and guarding against natural disasters such as flood and fire.

South Carolina is ranked No. 1 in The Associated Press preseason women’s basketball poll for the second consecutive season.

Firefighters battling the Dixie Fire face “another critical day” as thunderstorms pushed flames closer to two towns in the forestlands of Northern California.

California’s largest single wildfire in recorded history is running through forestlands as fire crews try to protect rural communities from flames that have destroyed hundreds of homes.

Thick smoke that held down winds and temperatures began to clear Sunday from the scenic forestlands of Northern California as firefighters battling the largest single wildfire in state history braced for a return of fire-friendly weather.

Thick smoke that held down winds and temperatures has begun to clear from Northern California's scenic forestlands as firefighters battle the largest single wildfire in state history.

A fast-moving wildfire has engulfed a Northern California town, leveling much of the downtown and several homes.

Officials say more than 100 homes have burned in and around the town of Greenville as California’s largest wildfire surged through the Sierra Nevada.

California’s largest wildfire exploded again after burning for nearly three weeks in remote mountains.

Pacific Gas & Electric says its equipment may have been involved in starting a small wildfire that merged with a massive blaze now threatening homes in the Northern California mountains.

Former President Donald Trump reached just under 700,000 measurable TV viewers over the weekend in his return to the stage at a North Carolina political event.

(AP Photo/Karl B DeBlaker)GREENVILLE, N.C. – Jayden Gardner had 21 points and 15 rebounds to help East Carolina stun fifth-ranked Houston 82-73 on Wednesday night, securing the Pirates' first win against a ranked opponent in nearly two decades. Tremont Robinson-White added 17 points for East Carolina, which defied season-long offensive struggles against one of the nation's top defensive teams. East Carolina shot 47% and made 11 of 24 3-pointers — and more impressively, the Pirates led for the last 12-plus minutes against a Houston team that struggled to make much of anything after halftime. East Carolina (8-6, 2-6 American Athletic Conference) hadn't won a game in more than a month between five straight losses and three postponements. AdECU: East Carolina hadn't won since beating Tulane at home on Dec. 22.

Amid concerns of the spread of COVID-19, census worker Ken Leonard wears a mask as he mans a U.S. Census walk-up counting site set up for Hunt County in Greenville, Texas, Friday, July 31, 2020. (AP Photo/LM Otero)A watchdog agency for the U.S. Census Bureau says that proper information-technology security safeguards weren’t in place leading up to the start of the 2020 census last year, but the statistical agency disputes some of the findings and says no data was compromised. The Census Bureau was able to remedy some of the security deficiencies after they were pointed out by the Office of Inspector General, and others were corrected right before most U.S. residents began answering the 2020 census questionnaire in March, the report said. “The integrity of census data is crucial,” the report said. The 2020 census was the first once-a-decade count in which respondents were encouraged to answer the questionnaire online, though they could also respond by mail or telephone.

(AP Photo/Richard Shiro, File)NEW YORK – Dawn Staley already has accomplished so much at South Carolina. The Gamecocks received 29 of the 30 first-place votes in The Associated Press preseason women's Top 25 released Tuesday. Arizona was seventh, the first time since 2004 that the Wildcats have been ranked in the preseason poll. RESPECTING THE CATSNorthwestern was ranked in the preseason poll for the first time since 2015, coming in at No. It's the first time since 2015 that two mid-major teams were ranked in the preseason poll.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The Jacksonville Icemen released the first part of their schedule for the 2020-21 season on Thursday, including back-to-back home games in mid-December and early January. The Icemen will open their season Dec. 11 at the Florida Everblades and then return home for games against Greenville (Dec. 12) and South Carolina (Dec. 18). The ECHL announced a split-season start for the league, which has 13 teams starting in December to participate in a 72-game season. The remaining ECHL teams will have the option to opt-in to the second start of the season beginning on Jan. 14. Icemen 2020-21 scheduleDec. 11, at Florida, 7:30 p.m.Dec. 12, vs. Greenville, 7 p.m.Dec. 18 vs. S. Carolina, 7 p.m.Dec. 19 at S. Carolina, 6:05 p.m.Dec. 26, at Florida, 7 p.m.Dec. 28, vs. Florida, 7 p.m.Dec. 29 at Orlando, 7 p.m.Jan. 2, vs. S. Carolina, 7 p.m.Jan. 9, vs. Orlando, 7 p.m.Jan. 13, at Florida, 7:30 p.m.Subject to change

President Donald Trump speaks during an NBC News Town Hall with moderator Savannah Guthrie, at Perez Art Museum Miami, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020, in Miami. His Democratic challenger, Joe Biden, participated in an ABC town hall from Philadelphia at the same time. __9:50 p.m.Democrat Joe Biden says President Donald Trump has not been “chastened” by the claims of racial injustice that have marked his presidency. ___9:20 p.m.President Donald Trump tried to end his contentious town hall meeting on a positive note. ___9:15 p.m.President Donald Trump demurred when asked whether he supports overturning Roe v. Wade.

FILE - In this Dec. 14, 2019 file photo, Democrat Jaime Harrison, who is seeking to challenge Republican U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, speaks to Democrats gathered at the Spratt Issues Conference in Greenville, S.C. U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham has been outraised for the first time by his Harrison, Democratic challenger, in a record-breaking quarterly period that sets up a multimillion-dollar grudge match leading into the general election. Harrison announced late Wednesday, April 14, 2020, that he took in $7.36 million in the first three months of 2020, a figure his campaign said brought his total, overall fundraising to nearly $15 million. (AP Photo/Meg Kinnard, File)

(AP Photo/LM Otero)ORLANDO, Fla. – The U.S. Census Bureau is cutting its schedule for data collection for the 2020 census a month short as legislation that would have extended the national head count's deadlines stalls in Congress. Some of the 500,000 door knockers hired by the Census Bureau have begun visiting those households, but they weren't expected to go out in force until next week. Top Census Bureau officials have said it would be impossible to meet the end-of-the-year deadline, and that the bureau expected bipartisan support for the request. Maloney on Tuesday introduced an update to the legislation pending in Congress that would give the Census Bureau more time by pushing back the deadlines to the later dates. Critics say the move to speed up the deadlines is just the latest Trump administration effort to politicize the 2020 census, starting with a failed attempt to add a citizenship question to the form.

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. – Less than a week before Christmas, a fire destroyed a no-kill animal sanctuary in Madison County that has a connection to Ayla’s Acres No-Kill Animal Rescue, a St. Augustine nonprofit. According to the organization, 10 animals died in a fire at the Ayla’s Acres No-Kill Animal Rescue sanctuary in Greenville on Dec. 19. The fire broke out at 10:30 p.m. in the sanctuary home where the property managers were living. Fran Charlson, Executive Director of Ayla’s Acres No-Kill Animal Rescue, said the fire was caused by a heating lamp that was warming rescued tortoises. Ayla’s Acres said it relies solely on the generosity of donations from supporters and volunteers and receives no government funding.

Gunshots were fired at a candlelight vigil for victims of a Greenville, Texas shooting. GREENVILLE, Texas (CNN) - The manhunt has ended for a gunman who opened fire at an off-campus homecoming party near Greenville, Texas, police said. 'Complete chaos'Gunshots rang out around 11:45 p.m. CDT Saturday at The Party Venue, an event space located on a sparsely populated stretch of Highway 380. "Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims, families, and friends of those affected by this morning's shooting in Greenville," Texas A&M University-Commerce said in a statement. The Party Venue resembles a warehouse, and its Facebook page says it's available for weddings, quinceaeras, high school reunions and other private parties.

Two people are dead and at least 14 others are injured in a shooting in Greenville, Texas. GREENVILLE, Texas - A gunman opened fire at an off-campus Texas A&M University-Commerce party, leaving two people dead and 14 injured before he escaped in the ensuing chaos, a sheriff said Sunday. The shooting took place around midnight Saturday at what Meeks described as Halloween and homecoming party for Texas A&M University-Commerce. "I just briefly saw one that was a very graphic video," Meeks said. According to its website, Texas A&M University-Commerce is the second-largest university in the Texas A&M University System.

Two people are dead and at least 10 others are injured in a shooting in Greenville, Texas. GREENVILLE, Texas - A manhunt is on for a gunman who opened fire at an off-campus homecoming party near Greenville, Texas, killing two people and sending 14 more to area hospitals, police said Sunday. ET) Saturday at The Party Venue, an event space located on a sparsely populated stretch of Highway 380. "Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims, families, and friends of those affected by this morning's shooting in Greenville," Texas A&M University-Commerce said in a statement. Earlier, the school's police department tweeted there was an event outside Greenville that "may or not have involved students."

1970: Southern Airways Flight 932 crashes in the mountains near Huntington, West Virginia, killing all 75 people on the plane, including members of the Marshall University football team, who were returning home after a 1714 loss to the East Carolina Pirates in Greenville, North Carolina. Among those killed in the crash were 37 football players, eight coaches, including head coach Rick Tolley, and 25 school boosters. The crash almost led to the discontinuation of the university's football program, but a group of players who were on the junior varsity football team during the 1970 season, as well as students and athletes from other sports, were recruited to form a 1971 football team. Hide Caption