The State

The State

The State is a daily morning publication located in Columbia, South Carolina, USA. It is owned by The McClatchy Company and serves readers across the Midlands area, making it the second largest newspaper in South Carolina. The newspaper's reporting team gained recognition as a Pulitzer Prize finalist for their coverage of Hurricane Hugo in 1989. Additionally, its former cartoonist, Robert Ariail, received Pulitzer nominations in both 1995 and 2000. On June 24, 2009, reporter Gina Smith made headlines by breaking the Mark Sanford scandal story after interviewing him at Atlanta's Hartsfield Airport upon his return from Argentina.

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  • 22 hours ago | thestate.com | Nick Meyer

    The Indiana Fever have become one of the most popular teams in the Women's National Basketball Association in the past year-plus during former Iowa Hawkeyes star Caitlin Clark's time in Indianapolis. The Fever sold out Carver-Hawkeye Arena for an exhibition game recently against the Brazilian National Team that showed the depth, enthusiasm and breadth of Caitlin Clark's fanbase. Indiana's increased national footprint has led to big changes by the team, as announced on Tuesday.

  • 1 day ago | thestate.com | Brendan Rascius

    How has President Donald Trump’s approval rating changed since his election? It shifted the most with young Americans, according to a new poll. Photo from the White House, UnSplash It’s now been over 100 days since President Donald Trump returned to the White House following his re-election. In that short time, he enacted a whirlwind of wide-ranging policies, including on immigration, trade and federal spending.

  • 1 day ago | thestate.com | Matt Hladik

    Microsoft announced Tuesday that it will be slashing part of its workforce in the coming months. According to the Wall Street Journal, the software behemoth will lay off "less than 3%" of its workforce, which amounts to fewer than 6,800 employees. The cuts will be happening in a multitude of divisions worldwide and are the result of a desire to become "more streamlined" and trim managerial roles.

  • 1 day ago | thestate.com | Eva Geitheim

    During the Minnesota Timberwolves 117-110 win over the Golden State Warriors in Game 4 of the Western Conference semifinals on Monday, Anthony Edwards was seen interacting with Steph Curry, who was on the Warriors' bench throughout the game. Edwards revealed after the game that he was hitting Curry back with what he learned from the star point guard over the summer during the Paris Olympic Games. "Just from working out with him in the summer, that's what I told him after I hit a [3].

  • 1 day ago | thestate.com | Jessica McBride

    As news broke that Shoeless Joe Jackson and Pete Rose are now eligible for the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame as a result of being removed from the permanently ineligible list, some people are wondering why Shoeless Joe Jackson was banned from baseball in the first place.