Новости за 12.06.2016

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti says a heavily armed man arrested in Southern California told police he was in the area for West Hollywood’s gay pride parade.

WASHINGTON — Nearly a year after South Carolina reeled from its own shooting at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, local and congressional Palmetto State officials weighed in on the tragedy early Sunday in Orlando, Fla.

On Wednesday morning, Sylleste Davis will drive to Columbia and take her place as the newest member of the state’s House of Representatives.

If you have a 401k plan, or investments in the stock and bond markets, you’ve probably heard some pitches for automated investment and advisory services — robo-advisers.

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A gunman wielding an assault-type rifle and a handgun opened fire inside a crowded gay nightclub early Sunday, killing at least 50 people before dying in a gunfight with SWAT officers, police said. It was the deadliest mass shooting in American history.

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A gunman wielding an assault-type rifle and a handgun opened fire inside a crowded Florida nightclub early Sunday before dying in a gunfight with SWAT officers, police said. The attack left 50 people dead and 53 others wounded.

What: As part of Southern Living’s 50th anniversary celebration, this event will feature a brunch with a variety of upscale menu items. Gospel performance from Ann Caldwell and the Magnolia Singers. For ages 21 years and older only.

Mount Pleasant town officials just can’t win.

Kudos to Mount Pleasant for blocking the development of 240-plus apartments at the end of Ben Sawyer Boulevard last year. I hope the town prevails in the recently filed lawsuit from the developers.

Was it really 40 years ago that my family decided to walk to a "Spoleto Ballet" at the College of Charleston?

What we need in West Ashley is not another large building with a large concrete parking lot that would attract more people. We have no lack of people.

It’s interesting to watch opponents of I-526 take victory laps over the recent setback. I certainly can’t fault those who live in its path, since all of us are interested in preserving that little snapshot of the way we want things to be.

Home prices went up in March. That was the recent news from Standard & Poor’s.

The first anniversary of the murder of the Mother Emanuel Nine by a white supremacist is a painful reminder of the dark side of American history and challenges our belief in American Exceptionalism.

In his famous "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington in 1963, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke of an unfulfilled promise made by America to the poor and especially to African Americans.

Ralph Stoney Bates Sr. of Mount Pleasant has won The Post and Courier’s Golden Pen award for May for his letter to the editor "What a Marine veteran vividly recalls on every Memorial Day."

Gov. Nikki Haley made the right call by vetoing a proposal to "study" moving the Confederate Relic Room from Columbia to Charleston. The Relic Room ought to remain in Columbia, adjacent to the state museum. It is the capital’s oldest museum, and there is no reason to bring it to Charleston, where there already is a wealth of...

City leaders and residents have been debating for a long time whether the peninsula has too many hotel rooms.

NEW YORK — An online resource for literary content is hoping to create the publishing equivalent of Rotten Tomatoes.

Surfing is in, at least for travelers. More people are signing up for surf camps, and resorts are starting to give guests a chance to catch a wave. Four are below.

Home House Press, a small Charleston publisher run by Tom Tisdale and Stephen Huffius, has issued "Porgy & Bess: A Charleston Story," edited by local historian and "Porgy" expert Harlan Greene.

END OF WATCH. By Stephen King. Simon & Schuster. 448 pages. $30.

ORDINARILY WELL: The Case for Antidepressants. By Peter D. Kramer. FSG. 336 pages. $27.

THE FOOD & WINE OF FRANCE: Eating & Drinking from Champagne to Provence. By Edward Behr. Penguin Press. 293 pages. $28.

MY BEST FRIEND’S EXORCISM. By Grady Hendrix. Quirk Books. 330 pages. $19.99.