Новости за 31.08.2016

The Dollar General retail chain has been ordered to pay $350,000 to a McClellanville woman who was wrongfully detained by a store manager who mistakenly suspected her of shoplifting.

A Charleston County Animal Control deputy was involved in a four-car crash Wednesday morning but was not hurt.

Urging people to trust his reasons for closing his courtroom, a federal judge ruled Wednesday that Dylann Roof’s right to a fair trial outweighs the public’s right to observe a hearing in the case.

To the news media attorneys who sought a better explanation of why he wanted to close a hearing in Dylann Roof’s case, a federal judge said Wednesday that they must trust his reasons.

The Charleston office of the National Weather Service has issued a hazardous weather outlook that will be in effect through Wednesday night.

The Charleston County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a crash that left a water utility employee with serious injuries.

The Charleston County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a crash that left a pedestrian injured early Wednesday.

Tropical Storm Hermine should cross South Carolina overland Friday into early Saturday, federal meteorologists predicted, as the now week-old system continued to defy computer model forecasting.

At the very least, Charleston residents should be ready for a heavy rain event Friday with Tropical Storm Hermine.

A tropical depression that’s track to brush the South Carolina coast Labor Day weekend is expected make landfall in Florida at "near hurricane strength," in the next 36 hours.

The glory went to "Charleston Receipts," but the pride of being first went to "Charleston Recipes."

The U.S. Navy has long done a spectacular job of piloting submarines and sinking ships. But its record on sole mousse and meringue is considerably less stellar.

What: Coffee with the Mayor is open to the public. Drop by for an opportunity to speak individually with Mayor Tecklenburg. Food and drinks will be available for purchase.

The death penalty is legally warranted in state and federal courts for extraordinarily heinous crimes.

Here’s the latest confounding twist in Congress’ continuing efforts to force more accountability from top employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs:

For Mark Sanford, in any context, to suggest that Donald Trump or any politician has "dodged" and "hedged" and has not been "transparent" is the epitome of hypocrisy. It is also a remarkable illustration of the hubris that continues to define Sanford.

Harvey Milk came from a Navy family and was commissioned in the service in 1951. He served as a diving officer in San Diego during the Korean War [and] on the submarine rescue ship Kittiwake until 1955. Milk was honorably discharged from the service as a lieutenant junior grade.

The people who drive carriages have a choice to drive them or not. The horses do not have choice. They are used to make money for the carriage people.

All you hear about are Hillary Clinton’s emails, which the Republican Party wants to keep front and center.

On a recent Friday afternoon, my wife and I went to a relatively new establishment off Dorchester Road. We had gone there once before on a Friday late afternoon and were extremely pleased with the fried green tomato appetizer, but extremely disappointed that a person next to us had been over-served to the point of falling down, resulting in the...

Is the system rigged as Donald "The Joker" so often tells us? You bet. And he should know because he is one of the leading riggers. The "system," however, is not the election system — except as a secondary factor — but the economic system in which he plays a major role.

In this bizarre political year, when the two dominant parties have offered up the most unappealing candidates in memory, why isn’t more media attention given to the other two national party candidates: Gary Johnson of the Libertarian Party and Jill Stein of the Green Party?

The Post and Courier recently reported that South Carolina pays one of the highest utility rates in the United States.

How does it feel to have a desired and apparently go-ahead project get derailed by a minority? Join the silent majority on one called I-526, derailed by only took a few (relatively speaking) loud Charleston County residents. I suspect a lot more people would travel the completed I-526 project than a few bikers getting downtown.

One of the big debates in health care right now is whether to create a public option for health insurance.