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From HERE ColumbiaCOLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina will close its regular-season home schedule under the lights. The Southeastern Conference announced Monday that the 21st-ranked Gamecocks and second-ranked Georgia meet Saturday, Nov. 21, in Columbia, with the opening kick set for 7:30 p.m. Georgia athletics confirmed the same…
From Merger Monday
Archrock Inc., which rents out the compressors that move natural gas through Permian Basin pipelines, agreed to buy HiVolt Energy Holdings LLC for up to $450 million in cash, betting that the oil patch’s next bottleneck is electricity. Houston-based Archrock will pay $415 million at closing, subject to adjustments, plus up…
From Merger Monday
Oura, the Finnish-born maker of the Oura Ring, agreed to buy Counsel Health for $625 million in cash, moving from tracking its members’ health toward treating them. Counsel combines a medical chat assistant with its own board-certified physicians, who can step into a conversation to diagnose, prescribe and refer. Its service…
From Merger Monday
Mercor, the San Francisco startup that pays human experts to train and grade artificial-intelligence models, raised $750 million in a Series D round that values it at $20 billion, double its price tag of a year ago. The company didn’t name a lead investor. Nvidia, Salesforce and Zoom Communications joined as…
Politics
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday, Nov. 10, rejected a lawsuit aimed at the state's stadium funding law, a 5-2 ruling that clears a major legal hurdle for a proposed Kansas City Royals ballpark near downtown. The justices did not decide whether the law is constitutional.…
Politics
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Jackson County is planning a World War II memorial for downtown Kansas City, a $25,000 granite monument that County Executive Phil LeVota unveiled this week as Veterans Day approached. It will go in Oppenstein Brothers Memorial Park, near the corner of 12th and Walnut. The monument…
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