Новости за 06.07.2016

WASHINGTON — South Carolina’s capital city has been singled out as a success story for how other towns can get inspired by "My Brother’s Keeper," President Barack Obama’s initiative to empower boys and young men of color through combinations of federal grants, public-private partnerships and ingenuity.

Trader Joe’s sister is moving in down the street in Mount Pleasant.

For Skip Sawin, nothing screams summer quite like the scene he plans to enjoy this weekend, when the Hobcaw Yacht Club hosts its 54th annual regatta.

Summer is typically a time when life slows down, or at least we imagine that it will.

July is for water parks and fireworks. And summer weeds.

The Islamic State has been losing territory and converts. But it still packs a potent sting, striking Turkey, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Bangladesh during the last week of Ramadan, which ended Tuesday. The death toll exceeded 300.

The South Carolina Stingrays announced that Ryan Warsofsky has been promoted to head coach and director of hockey operations at a press conference on Wednesday.

So you think it’s been hot lately?

While surfing is known as a fairly unstructured sport, the annual surf contest schedule in the Charleston area has a framework, though it’s probably not by intention.

Who remembers the Hippodrome? That gargantuan 426-seat movie theater with its 75-foot-wide screen and plush leather BMW seats was a sight to behold. After an unsuccessful run as an IMAX theater, it closed and reopened with new ownership in 2009, but following a booming summer season, ticket sales dropped off precipitously until months and months...

This review starts not at Little Jack’s Tavern, the breathlessly awaited turf-based sequel to the saltwater goings-on at Leon’s Oyster Shop, but farther down King Street at The Ordinary. I went there on a late winter Saturday night with a craving for a good piece of beef, free from overwrought sauces and ostentatiously truffled...

COLUMBIA — In the days after the Emanuel AME Church shooting, Gov. Nikki Haley was inundated with thousands of emails from people around the country expressing everything from outrage to sympathy in beseeching her to remove the Confederate flag from the Statehouse grounds.

COLUMBIA — Some of the early calls for the Confederate flag to come down after the racially motivated Emanuel AME Church shooting came from both white voters and minorities saying they were offended by its presence.

"Pickled" is a flip little slip of an British book written by Freddie Janssen, the creative Dutch founder of F.A.T, a London pop-up cafe and supper club, and purveyor of pickles, kimchi, vinegars and sauces. It contains 60 recipes that range from refrigerator pickles to fermented kraut, and includes ways to use them. While chefs may...

Charleston County school cafeteria workers and activists are holding off on a boycott of local car dealerships pending the results of an investigation regarding alleged discrimination in the schools’ food service...

A young man appeared to have been brutally beaten to death inside his Charleston home over the Fourth of July weekend, authorities and a supplemental police report indicated.

A young man appeared to have been brutally beaten to death inside his Charleston home over the Fourth of July weekend, authorities and a supplemental police report indicated.

COLUMBIA — He arrived from junior college with monstrous numbers, as the potential savior of South Carolina’s pass rush, and in his first spring practice forecast double-digit sacks. The SEC had other ideas.

The city of Charleston sanitation worker who was killed Tuesday has been identified.

Three men with guns burst into a north-area residence early Wednesday morning demanding money, according to the Charleston County Sheriff’s Office.

A planned hour-long work stoppage at seaports worldwide on Thursday, designed to draw attention to dockworkers’ rights, could affect area traffic during the morning rush hour, but the State Ports Authority says it hopes to minimize any impact from the International Longshoremen’s Association event.

CLEMSON — Walterboro native Tony Stephens, a former all-ACC defensive lineman for Clemson, died Monday of pneumonia at age 51.

The match was maybe 10 minutes old when Kenny Miller heard an accent on the field that took him by surprise.

Now that Century Aluminum has a deal to bring electricity to its Mount Holly smelter for up to 18 months, the company hopes to win back some of the business it lost last year when it appeared the facility might permanently close.

Century Aluminum has renegotiated a power deal that will keep its Mount Holly smelter, and its 300 employees, working for at least the next year to 18 months.