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SportsTALLAHASSEE, Fla. — In Tallahassee, Fla., the Florida High football team wasted no time Friday night, jumping to a 28-0 lead by the second quarter on the way to a 42-6 home playoff win over Andrew Jackson of Jacksonville. The fourth-seeded Seminoles, now 9-2, handled…
From HERE ColumbiaCOLUMBIA, S.C. — The top-ranked women's basketball team from Columbia, South Carolina, heads up Interstate 26 on Sunday for a matchup of two schools that share the same two-letter nickname. No. 1 South Carolina faces No. 3 Southern Cal in The Real SC event at…
From HERE ClintonCLINTON, S.C. — Clinton's Presbyterian College football team spent Saturday afternoon in Kentucky digging out of a deep hole, and came up one play short. The Blue Hose fell 28-25 at Morehead State after trailing by 18 points at the break. Morehead State put up…
From Merger Monday
For most of the past two years, the question in big deals was whether the money would show up. It did. This week the question changed to who else gets a vote. Start with Covetrus and MWI. A buyout-backed distributor agreed in March to buy its largest rival for $3.5 billion.…
From Merger Monday
Banks running the initial public offering of Anthropic PBC are turning away orders from investors in mainland China and Hong Kong, people familiar with the deal said, as the artificial-intelligence company heads into the final days before pricing what could be the largest listing on record. Several underwriters have refused orders…
From Merger Monday
SpaceX and Tesla Inc. have moved from discussing whether to combine to haggling over terms, people familiar with the talks said, putting Elon Musk within reach of a merger that would be the largest in corporate history. Boards and advisers at both companies are working through the price and the governance…
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