Новости за 09.01.2016

COLUMBIA — The leadership role Aleighsa Welch once held with the South Carolina women’s basketball team was so great, no single player could fill it. So four of them are trying.

Embracing and heartfelt, genuine and environmentally minded, classic and contemporary — perhaps even an eclectic mix of the two — as long as it reflects a personal and meaningful take on the world.

The imposingly tall single house at 329 East Bay St. was among Charleston’s grandest when first built around 1800, within clear view of the northward expansion of the city’s waterfront.

PHOENIX — Decades ago, former Alabama football coach Gene Stallings and one of the greatest golfers who ever lived, Ben Hogan, played a round. While riding in the cart, Stallings asked Hogan if he ever wished his opponent made a bad shot.

It’s good to have family connections. When I started working at Clemson, I had instant name recognition, because a distant cousin was a department chair and later dean of engineering. Because we shared the same last name, people assumed that he and I were "cut from the same cloth." Fortunately, he had a very good reputation.

COLUMBIA — GOP presidential hopefuls Saturday pitched long-standing free-market principles as a way to tackle poverty during a forum aimed at expanding economic opportunities for the poor.

When George Roberts, CEO of East Cooper Meals on Wheels, got a call in 2015 saying a crowdfunding platform had a $10,000 angel donation for his organization and it would help raise a match online, he was a bit wary.

Jimmy "Red" Parker recruited an impressive array of football talent to Clemson.

They’re called on as unofficial counselors or money planners, show homes to clients for months before hammering out deals and spend untold hours poring over arcane zoning and setback laws.

The rural expanse of U.S. Highway 17 North through the Francis Marion Forest boasts woodlands lining the roadway, dotted periodically by entrances to country roads — lengthy, short, paved, dirt.

Born and raised in Charleston, Allen Sinkler spent his childhood playing sports and enjoying Charleston beaches. He oversaw top-notch local eateries before gravitating into Lowcountry real estate in 2006.

A seven-story property in Mount Pleasant reached its peak height in late fall and wrapped up the final stage of early residential transactions.

From contracts to done deals, the chief real estate company on Kiawah Island can claim the first 10 months of 2015 as active and profitable.

One of the more notable historic homes in downtown Charleston sold late last year for $5.3 million, thanks in part to local real estate associate Mona Kalinsky.

A new John Wieland Homes and Neighborhoods four-bedroom design rose recently at Carnes Crossroads.

The Lowcountry took steps toward a balanced real estate market this fall — albeit on the "outer range" — joining two other metro areas in the South with leveled-off home outlooks.

A powerful U.S. air-to-ground missile whose design and electronics are a military secret has ended up in the hands of the Cuban government through a series of bizarre mishaps or deliberate theft that could be the plot for a Cold War comedy — or something much darker.

Michael Slager is out of jail on $500,000 bail. The family of Walter Scott, whose murder he is charged with, are understandably distressed. Protesters are angry. And lawyers are struggling to explain to a confused public why his house arrest is called for by law.

I have a 2014 Ford Focus with a six-speed dual-clutch automatic transmission that shudders on takeoff and then smooths out past second gear. The dealer says this is normal, and we have put up with the shudder until recently. At 13,000 miles, it has become worse. I checked with a very reputable Ford dealer in our area, who has been in...

An event involving a Summerville car dealership, national manufacturer and Cane Bay High netted $10,000 for the school in December.

Teenagers just old enough for a driver’s license were age 2 or 3 when Volvo introduced the XC90, which would prove not only to be the carmaker’s best-selling SUV but its top vehicle, period, in the United States.

For the third year, Mount Pleasant Presbyterian Church is offering nonprofit social service agencies in Charleston, Berkeley and Dorchester counties the opportunity to apply for up to $20,000 in funding for an "Impacting Children Grant."

BETHEL, Alaska — The Holy Bible is now available in the modern Yupik writing style.

VATICAN CITY — The Vatican is loaning a deeply symbolic religious relic to a meeting in Britain discussing the future of the 80 million-strong Anglican Communion that has been badly divided over issues of female bishops and same-sex marriage.