Новости за 05.06.2016

A buyer this month snapped up the final unsold house in the Hunley Waters neighborhood in North Charleston, according to its financial backer.

WASHINGTON — U.S. home prices kept climbing in March as the spring home buying season began, but so far the higher costs haven’t thwarted sales.

The Charleston RiverDogs had the series finale snatched away on Saturday night, 5-3, as the Kannapolis Intimidators rallied for four runs in the top of the ninth to take the improbable series-clinching victory in front of 4,018 fans at Riley Park.

Capital punishment in the United States is on the wane. Fewer people, 49, were sentenced to death in 2015 than in any year since the Supreme Court reauthorized the ultimate sanction in 1976; only 28 were executed, the fewest in 20 years. States find it harder to obtain lethal-injection drugs, especially now that pharmaceutical giant...

This is the beginning of "Porgy and Bess":

The latest study supposedly linking cell-phone radiation to cancer was meant to serve the public good. But its effect on the public has been bad. The $25 million government-funded experiment produced confusion and scary headlines, but little in the way of useful information — beyond perhaps an indication of where the science...

I recently returned to New York from a 10-day visit to Charleston. I have visited Charleston many times in the last 15 years and have always found the city to be among the most charming in the country.

As I crossed the bridge at Shem Creek, I noticed a couple walking abreast on the nice raised sidewalk on the bridge from one side of the creek to the other. The day before I read that the Mount Pleasant Town Council voted unanimously to spend $2 million to install a new pedestrian bridge across the creek only feet from where a perfectly...

The May 28 guest column titled "School choice: Who does the choosing?" identified a number of "legal and ethical questions" with the Charleston County School District’s proposed partnership with Meeting Street Schools to manage a new elementary school that will replace Burns Elementary.

Bailey Richardson, the first female recipient of the exclusive and comprehensive Star of the West undergraduate scholarship, represents a giant leap forward for The Citadel’s progression towards societal values of gender equality. This is especially so when you consider that her inspiration, Nancy Mace, was one of two ground-breaking female...

I am concerned about the infrastructure on Johns and James islands, relative to the proposed demise of the completion of I-526. The growing housing development on these two islands cannot be sustained without additional bridges over the Stono River for access to West Ashley and beyond.

The Legislature has passed a roads bill that will serve as a substantial stopgap to fund badly needed work on state bridges and roads. Bridges especially.

In recent months, archaeologists on Florida’s Gulf Coast have found artifacts that appear to show that humans settled the southeastern United States centuries earlier than originally believed.

ROME — Oscar-winning composer Ennio Morricone is back on his feet after canceling a string of concerts because of two collapsed vertebrae that raised questions about the continued prodigious output of the 87-year-old music legend.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum will reopen after months of renovations.

They call it "The Gourmet Ghetto."

Anthony Kelly, author of "Saving Miss Caroline," will sign copies of his book at the information tent on King Street between Liberty and Wentworth streets on June 12, the Second Sunday on King.

UNSEEN CITY: The Majesty of Pigeons, the Discreet Charm of Snails, & Other Wonders of the Urban Wilderness. By Nathanael Johnson. Rodale. 256 pages. $24.99.

ONE WILD BIRD AT A TIME. By Bernd Heinrich. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 190 pages. $28.

MY STRUGGLE: Book Five. By Karl Ove Knausgaard. Translated by Don Bartlett. Archipelago Books. 623 pages. $27.

LONDON — Britain’s 90-year-old Queen Elizabeth II is a Vanity Fair cover star, in a portrait by photographer Annie Leibovitz.

My friend Karen and I hug each other as we try to stifle sobs. She lost her dear husband, a Marine Corps Vietnam War veteran last November.

CHICAGO — Fans of the old TV show "Saved by the Bell" are getting a chance to step back in time and feel like part of their favorite ‘90s high school sitcom gang. But chances are they are eating better than the kids at Bayside High ever did.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Talk about finding the best prom dress ever.