Новости за 18.06.2016

DETROIT — After hearing good things about the latest in crash-prevention technologies, you decided to add automatic emergency braking to your new car.

Guests arrived by S550 sedan, 190 SL roadster and Cardinal Red GLC 300 from Lancaster, Greenville, Hilton Head Island, metro Charlotte, James Island and Mount Pleasant — torqued for a shrimp boil and maybe a Stono River swim.

I have been rear-ended twice in the past two years while sitting at a light, by drivers who do not bother to brake at all. I have a huge, bright-blue-and-white 1973 F-250 pickup truck (without lap belts, head rests or air bags, of course). This truck, I would think, is hard to miss. In both incidents, the cars that rammed into me were...

The state legislation allowing South Carolina Electric & Gas Co. to charge customers for two new reactors at its nuclear power plant years before they are completed has been compared to making payments on a new car without knowing the final price and before it leaves the assembly line.

Hardscapes from walkways to driveways can be really hard on the eyes.

AIKEN, S.C. — The city of Aiken is warning it will have to replace 10 inmates paid $15 a day to pick up trash and do landscaping with 20 temporary workers who get $10 an hour after South Carolina officials decided to close a nearby prison.

June 25-26: Summerville Country Club Father/Son-Daughter tournament, call 843-873-2210 ext. 221.

SULLIVAN’S ISLAND — Next month, this town will install several hundreds new signs to restrict public parking to one side of the street, while new rules on the Isle of Palms have led to a 38 percent spike in parking tickets.

The Cold Beer team, Capt. Cal Young along with Madison Utsey, Johnny Sanders, C.J. Jones and Patrick Zemp took first place in the Edisto Watersports & Tackle Shark Tournament with a 547-pound tiger shark. They caught a tiger that weighed 1,130 pounds last year but the fish didn’t make the weigh-in on time. Thirty-one boats fish the...

Week 33

You generally don’t think of chasing crappie during the heat of summer, but guide Joe Dennis of Bonneau said he’s catching crappie every day fishing either the Santee Cooper lakes or the rivers.

Sweet potatoes, or sweet "taters" as many South Carolinians refer to them, have risen from the dirt as a "superfood" due to their high levels of vitamins A and C, antioxidants, and low glycemic impact. These easy-to-grow root vegetables can be stored for months in a cool dry pantry without losing their flavor. Sweet...

Family members grappling with the loss of loved ones in the Emanuel AME Church shooting have created a variety of nonprofits to carry on their relatives’ legacies:

After the Emanuel AME Church shooting, thousands of mourners from across the globe donated money as a tangible way to show love and support for people and a house of worship grievously wounded.

The Rev. Shirley Caesar told hundreds outside of the Charleston Gaillard Center that even she, as a pastor, had trouble finding forgiveness a year ago when she heard that nine Charleston churchgoers had been shot and killed during a Wednesday Bible study.

They shared supper and communion. They prayed and they sang. They gathered to remember, and to look forward.

When President Barack Obama gave the eulogy for the Rev. Clementa Pinckney last June, Charles Miller Jr. sat tucked away in a backstage balcony at the TD Arena with other local church musicians.

A slight chance of afternoon showers could put a damper on Saturday, but the rain is expected to leave as quickly as it arrives.

Riley Klim didn’t feel like an outsider when he spent two days at a summer day camp in Charleston last week.

What: Experience the impact Cynthia Graham Hurd continues to have through an exhibit of photographs documenting her career with the library and memorial materials expressing an outpouring of love, sympathy and respect for the 31-year librarian and the legacy she created through the lives she touched in the Charleston community and around the...

Some people are no good.

It would be unreasonable to expect the S.C. Legislature to have turned around the state’s failing rural school districts. That is going to take time.

NATO is finally beginning to organize a forceful response to Russian aggression against Ukraine. Naturally, Russia threatens to match any NATO buildup against its effort to dominate previous allies in Eastern Europe. But that could become a long-term losing proposition for Russia, which has one-sixth the population, one-twentieth the economic...

If voter turnout during Tuesday’s statewide primaries has proven anything, it’s that civic duties aren’t very appealing during vacation season.