Новости за 15.06.2016

There’s an extra buzz surrounding The Joe this week, as the RiverDogs are officially playoff bound.

Iran has reached an agreement with the Boeing Co. for the acquisition of new passenger planes to help modernize its outdated fleet, state-run Iranian news media reported.

COLUMBIA — An effort to have the legislature override a veto by Gov. Nikki Haley on a comprehensive moped safety bill came to an unceremonious end Wednesday, when the Senate adjourned without taking it up for a vote.

COLUMBIA — S.C. House members voted Wednesday to override Gov. Nikki Haley’s veto of a comprehensive moped safety bill she said represented government overreach by mandating safety requirements such as helmets and vests.

Freshfields Village Shopping Center continues to grow.

With a return to the sports pages, this column has come full circle.

Patriots Point will offer free admission to all dads on Father’s Day, which is Sunday.

Seth Lancaster was safe when he slid into home last Saturday night at LSU’s Alex Box Stadium, scoring Coastal Carolina’s final run on a sacrifice bunt in the ninth inning of an 11-8 victory in the NCAA Super Regionals.

A rumor that began during the spring came to fruition on Wednesday when Summerville High School baseball coach Banks Faulkner announced to his players that he would be stepping down as head coach effective immediately.

A bystander helped a man in distress on the Isle of Palms, preventing a drowning Wednesday, according to authorities.

Defense lawyers want jurors from the Charleston area to decide Dylann Roof’s fate during his federal death penalty trial, a move that experts say puts a key decision on how the community moves forward into the hands of people who live here.

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Walt Disney World closed beaches at its Florida resorts Wednesday while dozens of rescuers searched a lagoon for the body of 2-year-old boy who was snatched off the shore and dragged underwater by an alligator as his father tried to fight off the reptile.

Charleston police are asking for help finding an armed-robbery suspect.

COLUMBIA — Former state Rep. Edward Southard has agreed to pay a fine and be publicly reprimanded after an investigation into accusations of sexual harassment earlier this year.

HOPKINS, S.C. — The South Carolina Highway Patrol is looking for a man who they think ran over and killed a 3-year-old boy who was playing in a driveway in Richland County on his third birthday.

Charleston police are searching for a 26-year-old fast-food worker accused of vandalizing a customer’s car Saturday as she drove away from an argument with the woman.

The College of Charleston Board of Trustees voted this week to raise tuition for both in-state and out-of state students by 3.5 percent for the coming academic year.

Charleston may soon have a new way to catch a ride, as Uber’s primary competitor says it plans to launch in the Lowcountry "in the near future."

Benny Palmetto’s, which just over a year ago opened its first South Carolina location in Mt. Pleasant, is coming to King Street.

A former Naval Criminal Investigative Service agent is accused of illegally accessing personal information about co-workers, his wife and her divorce attorney.

COLUMBIA — A look at South Carolina’s 2016 opponents continues with Mississippi State, USC’s one-time permanent cross-divisional opponent, whom due to conference expansion the Gamecocks are playing for the first time since 2013.

CLEMSON — When Memorial Stadium opens its gates to host a Clemson football game for the first time since Nov. 21, the Tigers will either be looking to win the best-of-three series against the state of Alabama or avoid a sweep.

Today in Charleston should be hot and possibly wet.

Update: This wreck has been cleared.