Новости за 06.04.2016

Charleston police were called to a crash downtown Wednesday involving a CARTA bus.

The RiverDogs are returning to The Joe for the 20th season this week, and the opening-night game just so happens to fall on one of the most popular nights of the week: Thirsty Thursday.

A Ladson couple has cashed in a $100,000 lottery ticket.

In December, the third art show for The Waiting Room took place in founder Leigh Sabisch’s apartment.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A judge sentenced former coal executive Don Blankenship to a year in prison Wednesday for his role in the deadliest U.S. mine explosion in four decades, saying he was part of a "dangerous conspiracy."

Renee Malloy Ludlam is an artist, woodworker and writer based in Greenville and Savannah. She’s the senior experiential designer at Jack Porter Design and a graphic design professor at the Savannah College of Art and Design. She will debut a collection of mixed-media works at Grand Bohemian Gallery, 55 Wentworth St., at an opening ceremony...

Venus Williams plans nothing less than "worldwide domination" with her clothing line, called "EleVen."

COLUMBIA — So many questions.

The basketball scouting report on President Obama says the slender left-hander has good court awareness and can hit the open jumper.

COLUMBIA — The Senate’s new majority leader said Wednesday that ethics reform will be one of the chamber’s top priorities.

COLUMBIA — Edgefield’s Sen. Shane Massey was elected to lead the Senate’s Republicans on Wednesday, a day after the former leader resigned.

A state appeals court on Wednesday overturned a North Charleston man’s conviction because the mental health examiner he threatened to kill wasn’t a public official, its ruling found.

COLUMBIA — As many as 800 children die each year in South Carolina and lawmakers are considering creating local review committees to study those deaths and, potentially, the need to remove other children from dangerous homes.

Two more Boeing employees have been arrested on tax-evasion charges.

Citadel officials are facing two more lawsuits over convicted child molester Skip ReVille, a former counselor at the school’s summer camps.

COLUMBIA — Gov. Nikki Haley expressed concern Wednesday with how Attorney General Alan Wilson and his staff have handled a "mess" of a situation erupting from 1st Circuit Solicitor David Pascoe’s firing amid a Statehouse corruption probe.

COLUMBIA — Attorney General Alan Wilson has disavowed emails by his top aide in which he describes an apparent plot to discredit the special prosecutor appointed to the Statehouse corruption probe.

AIKEN, S.C. — An Aiken County deputy has been fired after being arrested on child molestation charges.

Dr. Barron Nason is demanding that his former business partner release medical records to patients who have requested them.

NEW YORK — The biggest U.S.-based drugmaker, Pfizer Inc., will stay put thanks to aggressive new Treasury Department rules that succeeded in blocking Pfizer from acquiring rival Allergan and moving to Ireland — at least on paper — to reduce its tax bill.

The trial for Joey Meek, the man accused of knowing about Dylann Roof’s planned attack on Emanuel AME Church and doing nothing about it, has been scheduled for 9 a.m. June 27.

Americans from Boise to Bangor know by now that when they yank the cover off a Weber Grill and wheel it out of the garage for another season of hot dogs and beer-can chicken, they’re not fiddling with barbecue. And yet books about smoked meat bloom in spring as reliably as dogwood trees.

COLUMBIA — Jake Bentley will join the quarterback competition at South Carolina not in 2017, but this summer.

COLUMBIA — Jake Bentley will join the quarterback mix at South Carolina not in 2017, but this summer.

Today in Charleston should be mostly sunny, with a high near 69, according to the National Weather Service.