Новости за 25.01.2016

An arrest has been made after a fatal shooting in North Charleston Saturday night.

The fire at The Palace Hotel building in Charleston last week was caused by space heaters in the upstairs front apartment, according the Charleston Fire Department.

Traffic is moving around an incident on I-26 east near Montague.

Today starts off with frost on the windshields but will warm up to near 60 degrees under sunny skies by this afternoon, according to the Charleston office of the National Weather Service.

A 42-year-old man was killed Sunday night in a head-on collision in Berkeley County.

What: Throughout January, the North Charleston City Gallery will host "Lowcountry Kitchens," an exhibition of work by the city of North Charleston’s 2015/16 artist-in-residence, Daryle Halbert, who depicts scenes of Lowcountry cuisine, agriculture, music and folklore. Halbert’s exhibit focuses on the culinary symbols...

COLUMBIA — The Iowa Caucuses are only seven days away.

An employee of Zen Asian Fusion earlier this month sued the West Ashley restaurant for requiring servers and bartenders to contribute a portion of their tips "to the house."

Historic Drayton Hall is looking to upgrade its amenity area. The Drayton Hall Preservation Trust wants to improve the visitor experience at the West Ashley tourist attraction with a new pavilion, restrooms, gift shop, orientation hall, multipurpose area, relocated museum shop and other changes for the 18th-century home and plantation at 3380...

The unhealthy trend in American politics of demonizing one’s opponent has taken firm root in Charleston’s debate over the Sergeant Jasper re-development.

Some of the 17-year-old students who drop out of school have academic, health or family problems.

The contrast in the House of Representatives on Jan. 12 was stark. As President Barack Obama, giving his final State of the Union address, announced that his focus in the speech would be on the major issues facing the nation in the next 10 years and beyond, behind him sat House Speaker Paul Ryan.

I was shocked but not surprised with Sen. Lindsey Graham’s picture and story on the front page of the Jan. 16 Post and Courier.

In the Jan. 15 Post and Courier a headline read, "Senators seeking 5 percent pay increase for state employees."

The mainstream media are fond of sorting presidential candidates into lanes — outsider, establishment and so on. They don’t seem to know what to do with Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who consistently defies categorization.

Why does the National Football League have a rule that, in overtime, the team that has the ball will be decided by a coin toss and that if that team scores a touchdown on its first possession, then the game is over and that team wins?

When I read a Jan. 18 letter urging us to support offshore drilling, I thought about the wisdom my mom gave me.

At first it seemed too weirdly awful to be true, but there she was: Sarah Palin standing next to Donald Trump last Tuesday and endorsing him for president. Like previously conjoined twins who had shared a brain before Dr. Ben Carson separated them, these two anti-everything, post-lamestream media instigators presented themselves as...

Thirty-six years ago, a local gadfly’s column in a free Vermont weekly argued passionately for "democratic control" of television, so as to rid the industry of corporate advertisers who believe that "people should be treated as morons and bombarded over and over again with the same simple phrases and...

Just in time for the start of this year’s World Economic Forum in Switzerland, Oxfam has released another report on income equality in the world. According to the report ("An Economy for the 1%"), the top 1 percent of the world’s population now owns more than the next 99 percent combined.

Tom Kutyla has joined United Community Bank as a senior commmercial banker based in the Charleston market. He has more than 20 years of banking industry experience. He has a bachelor’s degree from Winthrop University.

Kathleen Boswell and Mike Rose of Coldwell Banker Commercial Atlantic represented the tenant, Aculina Art Foundation, in leasing 2,176 square feet of retail space at 6 Beaufain St. Joe Keenan of Palmetto Commercial Properties represented the landlord.

SUMMERVILLE CHAMBER: The Greater Summerville/Dorchester County Chamber of Commerce holds its annual membership meeting and January board of directors meeting. 7:30-9 a.m. Dorchester County Council Chambers, 500 N. Main St., Summerville. Free. Go to greatersummerville.org or contact Alana Burke at aburke@greatersummerville.org.

Jack Owens of Lee & Associates represented the Humanities Foundation Inc. in the $700,000 sale of the former Rutledge Avenue Baptist Church at 554 Rutledge Ave. The buyers, John L. Morrison and Lucas P. Morrison, were represented by Tim Weldon of King Street Commercial.

A look back at key business events of the past week.