Новости за 23.06.2016

I hear of organizations begging for money for veterans, and I wonder what they do with this money.

The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was adopted in 1791.

In this election year, I would like to nominate Cannon Street in downtown Charleston as the worst road surface in the entire tri-county area.

I had the honor of attending the graduation of the School of the Arts. My granddaughter, Kylee Puckhaber, graduated with her dream being in theatre.

Pilots fly out of South Carolina military bases every day, training for and executing maneuvers that keep us safe and promote peace.

Congratulations to Berkeley County School District trustees for opening Phillip Simmons Elementary/Middle School to serve Daniel Island and Cainhoy as an economically and racially diverse school.

The Post and Courier appears to have joined the ranks of those crying for stricter gun laws as a means of preventing mass shootings. An analysis of the issue reveals the folly of that stance.

The case of the disappeared Hong Kong booksellers took a new and distressingly revealing turn last Thursday. One of the five employees of Causeway Bay Books, who vanished last year, boldly convened a news conference in that beleaguered city to tell what had happened to him.

Led by its Republican majority, the Senate already has rejected modest controls on gun purchases this week. That’s despite rising public support for those overdue changes in the wake of last June’s Emanuel AME Church killings in Charleston, last December’s terror attack in San Bernardino, Calif., and the deadliest mass...

NEW YORK — Singer and Prince protege Judith Hill says she was on a plane with Prince when it made an emergency landing in Illinois after the superstar lost consciousness less than a week before his death.

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ABERNATHY, Eugene Keith II, 52, of Charleston died Sunday. Arrangements by James A. McAlister Funerals and Cremation.

The world has gotten so crazy and sick. Mass shootings, mayhem and murder are so commonplace that they almost seem like everyday occurrences. They are an everyday occurrence — that’s how bad it is, and soft targets are becoming increasingly used by jihadists, racists and others to spew their hatred and destruction.

The Asian population is the fastest-growing racial group in the country, and its growth in South Carolina and particularly in the Charleston area slightly outpaces the national average, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s latest report.

Have we been here before? I know — it feels as if the Internet, virtual reality, Donald Trump, Facebook, sequencing of the human genome and machines that can reason better than people constitute a change in the pace of change without precedent. But we’ve actually been through an extraordinarily rapid transition like this...

NEW YORK — Donald Trump launched a blistering attack Wednesday on Hillary Clinton’s record and character, slamming his presidential rival as a "world class liar" who raked in personal profits from her tenure at the State Department. The billionaire businessman claimed, "She gets rich making you poor."

The South Carolina Wildlife Federation’s 50th annual awards for conservation were announced Wednesday and the Advocacy Award was given to Charles Rowe of The Post and Courier in Charleston for 20 years of editorial campaigns supporting a wide range of preservation issues and public policy decisions related to land use and zoning, highway...

Australia’s Kevin Yuan shot a 7-under-par 65 to take a two-stroke lead after Wednesday’s opening round of the Rice Planters Amateur golf tournament.

"There’s an old adage about a vat of wine standing next to a vat of sewage. Add a cup of wine to the sewage, and it is still sewage. But add a cup of sewage to the wine, and it is no longer wine but sewage. Is this what Donald Trump has done to our politics?"

A civil rights settlement with the U.S. Department of Education that includes far-reaching consequences not only for transgender students but for all students and staff in Dorchester District 2, may encourage neighboring Lowcountry school districts to adopt their own policies or risk facing similar lawsuits and federal oversight.

A master plan for Citadel athletics facilities approved by the Board of Visitors calls for more than $33 million in improvements and new buildings.

The State Ports Authority is offering truckers more extended hours at its Wando Welch Terminal this week to help reduce congestion caused by a problematic new gate system.

Charleston’s Board of Architectural Review followed City Council’s lead in giving its blessing to a wide-ranging agreement that could resolve the dispute over the Sergeant Jasper site.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A federal court in Virginia ruled Tuesday that it’s now up to a South Carolina judge to consider if members of a humanist organization can continue a legal challenge over prayers during graduation ceremonies at a public school.