Новости за 26.08.2016

COLUMBIA — Perry Orth will prepare as if he’ll be South Carolina’s starting quarterback Thursday night. But it might be game day until he finds out if that’s indeed the case.

CLEMSON — An established veteran player is asked about the progress of a rapidly-ascending freshman teammate, and the upperclassmen gnaws a little on his lower lip.

Berkeley County is now using social media to locate residents who are owed child support payments.

COLUMBIA — David Williams’ first day of preseason camp under Will Muschamp lasted about an hour.

The American College of the Building Arts for the first time in years will have all its students on one campus — inside the renovated Trolley Barn on Upper Meeting Street.

More than 70 years after the execution of George Stinney Jr., a black teenager who was convicted of brutally killing two white girls in Clarendon County, attorneys are planning to launch a civil rights lawsuit on behalf of his surviving siblings with support from the Charleston School of Law.

Surprise. Wando isn’t completely loaded in girls tennis this year and isn’t a cinch to repeat as Class AAAA state champion.

COLUMBIA — Gov. Nikki Haley and her husband Michael earned $171,000 in 2015, according to tax returns released Friday, as the governor took one step that GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump hasn’t.

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Winners for the inaugural Fishing for Miracles Inshore Tournament were: Largest Trout, 2.86; Lady Trout, 1.26; Youth Trout, Elliott Ducworth, 1.30; Largest Flounder, Mark Deogburn, 3.30; Youth Flounder, Elliott Ducworth, 1.96.

COLUMBIA — South Carolina’s Chief Deputy Attorney General John McIntosh will end his 21-year career with the state at the end of the year, with private attorney Robert Bolchoz replacing him in January.

SPARTANBURG, S.C. — A Spartanburg restaurant owner has been sentenced to six months in jail after he said he was assaulted and robbed in his business.

Last summer, four MUSC board members convened in Charleston for a compensation plan committee meeting, but if any minutes were recorded or any decisions were made, they weren’t made public.

A $160 bottle of Barolo, Italy's fabled "king of wines."

Authorities reported few traffic tie-ups Friday morning in the Charleston area.

Charleston police have identified a man they believe is responsible for a downtown shooting Friday morning.

A Charleston man was shot in his legs Friday morning outside of a peninsular party.

A man was shot in a leg early Friday on the Charleston peninsula, a police spokesman said.

An untidy mess of rain showers and thunderstorms north of Cuba continued early Friday to take aim at the Florida Keys, but it still lacked the hallmarks of a tropical cyclone.

A 30 percent chance of thunderstorms is the only blip on the weekend forecast for the Charleston area.

The appeal of bluegrass music runs deep: It’s catchy, virtuosic and occasionally profound. But for Charleston restaurant owners, the genre’s most important qualities are it doesn’t have a drumbeat and you can’t dance to it.

State Sen. Tom Davis wants you to know he’s not giving up — he will fight a state gas tax increase again next year.

Wrapping up their penultimate homestand of the regular season, the Charleston RiverDogs couldn’t match the energy of the crowd of 5,047, dropping the rubber match of the series to the Columbia Fireflies, 7-1, on Thursday night at Riley Park.

What: Corn-hole tournament benefiting the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. All proceeds go to the foundation and lunch is available for purchase.

The last time I refilled my EpiPen, in November, I paid $365.63 out of pocket for two auto-injectors. I looked that number up Thursday morning after the news broke that Mylan, the company that makes EpiPens, is bowing to public pressure and will start offering discounts after years of hiking prices.