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SPARTANBURG, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - USC Upstate announced that a food drive is set to coincide with the Spartans and UNC Asheville Bulldogs men’s and women’s basketball games against one another.

Flying south through smoky skies down the famous Malibu coast, at first the burnt-out mansions are the exception -- solitary wrecks, smoldering away between rows of intact, gleaming beachfront villas.Where row upon row of family homes once stood, all that remain are occasional chimneys, blackened tree stumps and charred timber.