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Democrat wins special South Carolina Senate election and will be youngest senator
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A 33-year-old Democrat will soon be the youngest senator in the South Carolina Senate.
State Rep. Deon Tedder won a special election for the open Senate seat on Tuesday, picking up more than 81% of the votes to defeat Republican Rosa Kay, according to results compiled by the South Carolina Election Commission.
Tedder will be sworn in when the Senate’s regular session begins in January and at 33, he will be the youngest senator by nearly five years. Only seven of the state’s 46 senators are younger than 50.
The seat came open when Marlon Kimpson resigned after 10 years in office to take a job developing trade policy in President Joe Biden’s administration.
Senate District 42 is heavily Democratic, running from the Charleston peninsula into North Charleston.
Kimpson endorsed Tedder. The attorney and two-term state House member won the Democratic nomination by 11 votes in a runoff, beating longtime state Rep. Wendell Gillard.
Gillard had received 47% of the vote in the primary, but South Carolina requires a majority to win the nomination. Tedder won 39%.
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Beamer attributes South Carolina's offensive struggles to 'a combination of things'
The hole was already plenty deep. South Carolina, mostly by its own doing, found itself trailing by three touchdowns at halftime on Saturday.
Desperately needing a sign of life, the Gamecocks came out of the break and slowly drove down the field and moved inside the Ole Miss 20-yard line. But then came a big decision on 4th and 4. Do you go for it and extend the drive to try and score a touchdown or just take the points by way of a field goal?
Head coach Shane Beamer went with the latter option, taking his offense off the field and sending out his kicker Alex Herrera to try a 38-yard field goal to cut the deficit down to … 18 points. Much like his other decisions throughout the day, this one didn’t work out in his favor. Herrera missed wide right, which left South Carolina in the same spot it was before — still down 21 points.
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Even if Herrera made the field goal, it wouldn’t have made much of a difference in the final outcome. South Carolina’s offense never found the end zone in what would end up being a 27-3 loss to Ole Miss.
“I think it was a combination of things,” Beamer said, trying to put his finger on what led to the offensive struggles. “Was it good enough? No, absolutely not. When you score three points, it’s nowhere near good enough.”
South Carolina finished the game with 313 total yards and showed flashes at times. But that’s all it was — just flashes. Nothing more. The offense, which drove into Ole Miss territory on six different drives, only came away with three points and turned the ball over twice with two additional turnovers on downs.
There wasn’t just one singular thing that stood out as to why the offense couldn’t score. It was a mixture of everything. LaNorris Sellers, making his first start since Week 3, had an up-and-down day. His receivers couldn’t get open consistently. And the protection around him wasn’t great as he took a season-high six sacks.
But if there were any positives Beamer could take away from the lackluster performance, he felt the run game was “decent.” As a team, the Gamecocks rushed for 151 yards with Sellers accounting for 55 of those yards.
“I know with the sacks, the rushing yardage comes down and the yards per rush comes down,” Beamer said. “But on called runs, we were productive and hit some things in the passing game, but nowhere near productive enough there, not good enough on third down.”
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Outside of that, it was nearly impossible for Beamer to find much good through all the bad in the loss. Much like it has all year, South Carolina struggled on third and fourth downs and went a combined 6-for-20 in those situations.
The underlying theme in all these struggles were the details, according to Beamer.
“Overall, I think it was a thing here, a thing there. Everybody had a hand in it, starting with me as the head coach,” he said. “We’ve got to be more detailed in everything that we’re doing, whether it be techniques, assignments, route depths, how we attack certain leverages, you name it. Just gotta be better there.”
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A 1941 Chevy involved in fatal crash, South Carolina Highway Patrol says
One person was killed and another was injured Saturday in a crash that involved an 84-year-old car, according to the South Carolina Highway Patrol.
The single-vehicle collision happened in Anderson County, said Lance Cpl. Brittany Glover.
The driver of the 1941 Chevrolet Deluxe was heading east on U.S. 76, and ran off the right side near the intersection with Williams Street, in the Laurens area of South Carolina’s Upstate region, according to Glover.
The antique Chevy then flipped over, Glover said.
While the driver wasn’t hurt, two passengers were injured and taken to an area hospital, where one of them later died, according to Glover.
The Anderson County Coroner’s Office has not publicly identified the passenger who died.
Further information on the surviving passenger’s condition was not available.
No other injuries were reported.
There was no word if any of the people in the Chevy were wearing seat belts.
Information about what caused the classic car to veer off the road was not available. Glover did not say if the crash continues to be investigated by the Highway Patrol.
Second deadly wreck in Anderson County
There was another deadly wreck in Anderson County Saturday.
A little earlier, at about noon, there was a two-vehicle collision, according to Glover.
A 2010 Volvo SUV was heading west on S.C. 24, and it collided with an eastbound 2005 Toyota at the intersection with Wham Road, Glover said. That’s near Lake Hartwell.
The Toyota driver, who was the only person in that vehicle, was taken to an area hospital and later died, according to Glover.
The coroner’s office hasn’t publicly identified the Toyota driver.
Glover said their were four people in the Volvo, and none of them were hurt. No other injuries were reported.
Again, it’s not clear if any of the people involved in the crash were wearing seat belts. Information about what caused the vehicles to collide was not available.
Through Sept. 29, at least 689 people had died on South Carolina roads in 2024, according to the state Department of Public Safety. Last year, 1,030 people died in crashes in South Carolina, DPS reported.
At least 34 people have died in Anderson County crashes in 2024, according to DPS data.
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Misinformation spreads in South Carolina after Helene
McBride also said to be wary of posts from national politicians or candidates for political office. With the presidential campaign hitting its final stretch, both candidates might be prone to exaggeration or hyperbole to serve their goals. Instead, defer to your local officials and leaders.
“The more local you can go, the more likely it is you’re getting accurate information,” she said.
Fifth step: Read laterally, as Mahadevan puts it.
If you see something online that looks questionable, try to corroborate it across multiple outlets. Don’t put all your stock in a single person online. Be sure to check official federal sources like the National Weather Service, or trusted news sources.
If you see an image that looks like “movie magic,” you should try to find the same event from multiple angles to be sure it’s a recent photo and not generated by artificial intelligence, McBride said.
“This won’t work perfectly,” she said. “I saw that there was a photo of I-40, between Asheville and Knoxville, where a couple of police (cars) were washed out, and there was rumors circulating that it was a fake image and it turned out to be a real image. It was just so unbelievable that people thought for sure it wasn’t real.”
But Mahadevan said, generally, a lot of misinformation can be combatted by being a more active consumer of news. Instead of getting information by scrolling through TikTok, Instagram or Facebook, seek out the news you want.
“Social media newsfeeds have completely made us passive consumers of information,” he said. “So now we’re just kind of passively scrolling. What I always encourage people to do is think more consciously about what you’re consuming.”
But for many residents of the rural parts of South Carolina, finding reliable, local sources of news can be difficult.
News deserts
South Carolina has seen a precipitous decline in local, daily newspapers in recent decades, a trend that can be tied directly to the rise of online misinformation, Mahadevan said. The “information vacuum” created when a local paper folds typically will go unnoticed by many residents until a massive storm or other disaster starts bearing down, he said. Without a local metro paper, people might flock to social media sites like Facebook and NextDoor for information.
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