Новости за 20.08.2016

Bernard Smith spent 22 days face-to-face with death. The stench surrounded him as bodies of men, both young and old, were carted into a mortuary for him to process in Saigon during the Vietnam War.

West Fraser is a plein air painter who wants to be in the elements so that he might capture some of the magic of nature.

Mosquitoes and the diseases they transmit to another living organism are big news right now.

PHILADELPHIA — Andrea Lawful-Sanders has a ritual for cheering the black heroines of the Summer Olympics.

A half mile north of where the Ravenel bridge touches down in Charleston’s peninsula, a new and distinct neighborhood is taking shape.

A damaged water main shut down the Whirlin’ Waters Adventure Waterpark in North Charleston Saturday.

UNION, S.C. — A man awaiting a murder trial in the death of his stepmother has escaped from the Union County jail.

The Mount Pleasant location of The Charleston Angler will lead a free Big Shrimping Seminar at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday. Call 843-884-2095.

When Cantey Smith came up with the idea of holding a tarpon tournament in which anglers could only fish in Charleston County waters there were plenty of naysayers. Having a tarpon show up in your bait spread was such a rarity that anglers weren’t prepared.

2015-16 TRIDENT FISHING TOURNAMENT

South Carolina Golf Hall of Fame member Lea Anne Brown of Mount Pleasant has qualified for her fifth U.S. Women’s Senior Amateur while Goose Creek’s Katelyn Dambaugh has been named to represent the U.S. in the 2016 Women’s World Amateur Team Championship.

Doctors at the Medical University of South Carolina are sending pregnant women outside the state for abortions because a new, mostly Republican-supported state law prevents physicians from performing the procedure here past 20 weeks, even if they believe the mother or fetus will probably die.

More than 300 packages of evidence collected from Charleston-area women who reported sexual assaults have never been tested for DNA that could help arrest rapists, some from cases dating as far back as 1989.

Before temperatures cool next week, it’s going to be another hot and potentially wet weekend in Charleston.

ASHEVILLE — In 1861, with Fort Sumter in the hands of the Confederate Army and the harbor blockaded by the Union Navy, a hurricane spinning off the Bahamas headed toward them.

MOUNT PLEASANT — In an unusual move, Town Council this month refused to annex a proposed development property adjacent to Charleston National, a subdivision at the north end of town.

What: The Cedar Room turns into a barre studio for one morning with a hour-long class led by Jess Ross of Barre Evolution. Bring a yoga mat and water bottle.

They demand ever-tighter regulations on a life-saving product long, rightly and highly valued by Americans.

The Charleston RiverDogs scored two unearned runs in the fifth inning, which proved to be all they needed to be victorious 2-0 over the Greenville Drive in front of a crowd of 4,426 at Riley Park.

Attendees to the 2016 Charleston Fall Home Show can stroll around the Gaillard Center as they meet with prominent local architects, learn the values of their antiques, talk to top custom builders and remodelers, peruse kitchens and baths while listening to live jazz, and maybe win a free backyard makeover worth at least $15,000.

In spotlighting the local consumer market’s economic importance, commercial brokerage NAI Avant singled out Travel + Leisure’s christening of Charleston as 2016’s "Best City in the World."

It was a pedestrian project at first, a relatively mundane and bureaucratic effort to make some progress in the renewal of the Charleston Museum’s displays.

The controversy surrounding the current plan to widen Maybank Highway between the Gelegotis Bridge and River Road correctly identifies one of the most urgent traffic problems facing Johns Islanders and surrounding communities. The frustration caused by two lanes of creeping vehicles backed up on the Gelegotis Bridge, sometimes as far as Riverland...

Joe Biden joined Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail Monday in Scranton, Pa., where he was born and spent the first decade of his life.

Most people think of dogs and cats when they hear the term "household pets." But some people on James Island have been applying that term to their backyard chickens so they can keep them under the town’s zoning code.