Новости за 24.08.2016

BISHOPVILLE, S.C. — The family of an inmate who died of an untreated kidney infection last year at Bishopville’s Lee Correctional Institution is suing state prison officials.

COLUMBIA -- Gov. Nikki Haley is hitting the campaign trail again Thursday for Republican North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory’s reelection bid.

As federal regulators near a decision on seismic testing for oil and natural gas offshore, opponents have released animated maps that they say show dense populations of dolphins and whales gathering and moving through the area over the course of a year.

Gale-force winds of 55 mph at times were blowing from a weather system in the warm, cyclone-stirring waters north of Puerto Rico on Wednesday night.

Tropical storm force squalls are now blowing from a weather system crossing the outer Caribbean islands, and computer model runs have begun to forecast it will track across Florida and into the Gulf of Mexico. National Hurricane Center specialists expect it to soon become a cyclone.

A tropical wave moving across the Lesser Antilles could become a tropical depression during the next day or two as it moves west-northwest at 15 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center.

WASHINGTON — Following in the footsteps of Democratic parties other states, including neighboring Georgia, the S.C. Democratic Party will change the name of its annual fundraising dinner to no longer recognize former presidents Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson.

The S.C. Department of Transportation reports there are no major issues for motorists during the early-morning commute Wednesday.

AMATRICE, Italy — A strong earthquake in central Italy reduced three towns to rubble as people slept early Wednesday, killing at least 73 people and injuring hundreds more as rescue crews raced to dig out survivors with bulldozers and their bare hands.

AMATRICE, Italy — A devastating earthquake rocked central Italy early Wednesday, collapsing homes on top of residents as they slept. At least 38 people were killed in hard-hit towns where rescue crews raced to dig survivors out of the rubble, but the toll was likely to rise as crews reached homes in more remote hamlets.

BANGKOK — A powerful earthquake measuring a preliminary magnitude of 6.8 shook central Myanmar on Wednesday, knocking glasses off tables and sending people running out of buildings in the country’s largest city.

Mostly sunny skies and a high near 89 are in the forecast for Charleston today, according to the National Weather Service.

Two women in an office stairwell, heading back down to their cubicles after one of them bought lunch from the cafeteria upstairs:

What: Trek through many distinct habitats to view and discuss a variety of birds, butterflies and other organisms. Paid chaperone is required for participants ages 15 and under.

Authorities have identified a 39-year-old Charleston man who was fatally stabbed Tuesday night.

A man is dead and his girlfriend has been detained after a stabbing in Charleston, police say.

Charleston County schools started the year $18 million in the hole, but you’re getting a break on your tax bill.

Catching up with the affairs of Charleston after a trip up north, I saw from my favorite columnist, Brian Hicks, that John Tecklenburg has taken to the Holy City stage like Horowitz to Carnegie Hall. "Teck," as Hicks calls him, just loves it at 80 Broad and Charleston just loves Teck. A born mayor, says Hicks. Not an...

The Commission on Higher Education made a solid case against a funding plan for a $31.8 million stadium expansion at Coastal Carolina University, but the State Fiscal Accountability Authority wasn’t buying it. By a 3-2 margin on Tuesday, the fiscal board brushed aside the CHE’s objections and gave the university a pass on its project.

Winning the White House requires proposing policies that Americans can support.

Throughout my life, I have been an avid hunter, fisherman and outdoorsman. I hunt quail, wild turkey, dove and other birds. I’ve been on safari in Africa a number of times to hunt Cape buffalo and other plains game. I hunt elk in the Rocky Mountains every year. In my native Texas, I fish the Gulf Coast’s bays for redfish...

Catching up with the affairs of Charleston after a trip up north, I saw from my favorite columnist, Brian Hicks, that John Tecklenburg has taken to the Holy City stage like Horowitz to Carnegie Hall. "Teck," as Hicks calls him, just loves it at 80 Broad and Charleston just loves Teck. A born mayor, says Hicks. Not an...

I cross the Stono River bridge several times a day and always enjoy the beautiful views. There is a gentleman who walks the bridge every morning around sunrise, and as he walks he picks up the litter on the bridge. I have wanted to stop, shake his hand and say thank you, but it would not be safe with traffic.

"I don’t think anybody has been in a position of having to decide whether to close off a lane of traffic before." This is the quote from County Council Chairman Elliot Summey as reported in the Aug. 18 Post and Courier.

Republican or Democrat? Trump or Clinton? He’s an undisciplined and insulting aristocrat, and she is remarkably and openly dishonest and corrupt. Who to choose?