Новости за 21.02.2016

COLUMBIA — They may be ranked No. 3 in America and have a third consecutive SEC championship secured, but the South Carolina women’s basketball team is not immune to the wear and tear of a long regular season.

COLUMBIA — They may be ranked No. 3 in America and have a third consecutive SEC championship secured, but the South Carolina women’s basketball team is not immune to the wear and tear of a long regular season.

WASHINGTON -- On the debate stage, Jeb Bush received plenty of rhetorical punches from his rivals for the GOP presidential nomination.

WASHINGTON – Donald Trump may have won South Carolina before his private plane ever touched the ground.

That armor-shelled little nuisance burrowing through your suburban lawn might be your new best friend.

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio told CNN on Sunday morning that earlier reports that former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney would endorse him are inaccurate.

Every day, people do 3 billion Google searches. There’s a good reason for that. In seconds, you type in whatever you can imagine searching for, and Google comes back with your answer. Yet, these days, the seconds it takes to search Google can feel like an ice age. That’s especially true when you’re on a deadline at...

It’s hard to justify throwing someone in jail for standing around.

MOUNT PLEASANT — College of Charleston pounded out 12 hits, including five extra base hits, to down Nebraska, 13-5, on Saturday at Patriots Point.

KALAMAZOO, Mich. — A man drove around the Kalamazoo, Michigan area shooting people at three locations Saturday evening including a Cracker Barrel restaurant and a Ford dealership, leaving six dead and three injured, two of whom are in critical condition, police said.

It didn’t take Irmo guard Tavonne Bond long to understand this was just going to be one of those nights when everything clicked. The senior guard hit two 3-pointers in the opening few minutes to set the tone as the Yellow Jackets rolled to an 84-56 victory over Summerville on Saturday night in the Class AAAA boys playoffs.

A perfect run through Region 7-AAAA, and a 19-win season, did nothing to ease the pain for James Island boys basketball coach Stan Wilkins after his Trojans dropped a 53-49 overtime decision to visiting Carolina Forest in a second-round Class AAAA Lower State playoff game on Saturday night.

SUMTER — Sumter High School won the first half of its Class AAAA boys basketball second-round state playoff game with West Ashley on Saturday, but an 8-0 Wildcats run to open the second half began what would turn out to be a back-and-forth finish.

A couple of years ago many politicians and talk show hosts were loudly protesting the conspiracy by "Big Oil" to gouge the public of their hard-earned dollars by charging over $4 per gallon for gasoline. I remember Bill O’Reilly on Fox News vociferously stating that Exxon and other oil producers were horrible, greedy people.

In a Feb. 19 op-ed Paul Greenberg praises and criticizes some past presidents. In his criticism of James Madison, he failed to mention that Madison was the principle author of the Constitution of the United States.

Upon moving to Johns Island eight years ago, I attempted to ride my bike to downtown but gave up when I ran out of space as I approached the Legare bridge. I didn’t realize the sidewalk was on the west-bound span, and I was very surprised that I couldn’t safely make it downtown.

I was in disbelief that the pope would make such a harsh statement that anyone who would build a wall on the border is not a Christian.

The conservative Republicans wave the Constitution only when it affects their interests. It is the constitutional responsibility of a sitting president to replace Supreme Court justices when there is a vacancy.

A Feb. 14 letter writer talked about the difficulty of measuring the results of a tall ship education program.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The popular wisdom that opposites attract is true in both romance and politics.

How will the death of Justice Antonin Scalia affect the major cases before the Supreme Court this term, all of which are expected to be decided by the end of June?

Wonder how many hidden tax dollars have been paid by South Carolina motorists since Tom Davis began his latest filibuster against proposals for critically-needed additional road funding?

The latest plan for the Sergeant Jasper site is the best so far. One huge selling point is that it cedes the 2.2-acre St. Mary’s Field to the city for a public park.

SEDONA, Ariz. — A heart carved into red rock is drawing the attention of authorities in Arizona who are investigating to see if actress Vanessa Hudgens is the culprit.

NEW YORK — It’s about to be a family affair at 30 Rock for NBC News anchor Lester Holt and his son, Stefan Holt, who soon will be anchoring a weekday newscast on the network’s New York station, it was announced Tuesday.