Новости за 07.09.2016

Summerville Town Council will decide Thursday when residents will vote on the mayor’s powers and when the potential power shift would take place.

Issue: Plans to widen S.C. Highway 165, also known as Delemar Highway, have stalled repeatedly since 2012. This dangerous stretch of road that has seen more than 250 accidents during the past five years, and officials have scrambled to try to widen about 3 miles of it, from Carolinian Avenue to just beyond Ashley Ridge High School.

It’s too easy to think the computers have figured out hurricanes, what with readings from satellites, aircraft, dropsondes and drones, not to mention historical climatic data that reaches back more than a century.

A preliminary investigation into what one state lawmaker called "excessive" spending by the governing board of the Medical University of South Carolina will begin shortly, the state’s inspector general said Wednesday.

The current 24-hour period might qualify as James Groetzinger’s summer vacation, since the Charleston restaurateur yesterday closed Parlor Deluxe and tomorrow opens Calhoun’s in Bluffton.

A Chicago company has invested $29 million to beef up its portfolio of port-driven real estate in the Charleston region.

In the short time that Pulp has been part of the downtown art scene, the small gallery and bookstore has breathed life and fire into the arts by hosting some of the most extraordinarily weird and amazingly odd art collections.

From the perspective of a pedestrian on upper King Street, Rodney Scott’s BBQ will look much like its predecessor, save for a color change and an attached pit house out back.

COLUMBIA — A Spartanburg woman who has spent four years periodically tracking down her ex-husband to collect late child-support payments lashed out Wednesday at state senators.

COLUMBIA — Travaris Robinson had seen enough. During a preseason scrimmage, South Carolina’s defensive coordinator lined up his players and had them run suicide drills from one sideline to the other. The reason for the punishment wasn’t necessarily poor tackling — but not being in position to tackle in the first place.

COLUMBIA -- S.C. Education Lottery Executive Director Paula Harper Bethea announced Wednesday she is stepping down as the agency’s director at the end of October.

A 16-year-old has turned himself in to police in connection with a convenience store armed robbery in Charleston.

It’s time to reduce our waste. In a food-centric city such as Charleston, we have to admit that a lot of that waste is coming from our restaurants since we are a community where dining out is a hobby for many. The first and easiest step to reducing waste is to take those leftovers home and actually eat them!

Summerville Town Council has five finalists for police chief but won’t release the candidates’ names, a violation of state law.

South Carolina workers won a modest raise to start the year, pulling in higher pay as the state staved off wage declines that hit much of the country.

South Carolina workers won a modest raise to start the year, pulling in higher pay as the state staved off wage declines that hit much of the country.

CLEMSON — Going forward, former Clemson quarterback Tajh Boyd will keep quiet about the assault charge he faces following a July incident.

Charleston police are searching for a man they say choked his wife during an argument about divorce proceedings last month.

WASHINGTON — Neither a Democrat nor a journalist, U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham still thinks all lawmakers should be briefed on recent revelations that the Democratic National Committee and reporters from The New York Times — among other entities — have been the victims of cyber attacks.

Police are investigating an armed robbery at Approved Cash Advance in West Ashley.

Police are investigating an armed robbery at Approved Cash Advance in West Ashley.

About 120 people from all over the world will take the oath to become American citizens next week during a ceremony in Mount Pleasant.

ST. STEPHEN, S.C. — Basket weavers are showing students the centuries-old tradition of harvesting sweetgrass in the South Carolina Lowcountry.

More than 2,000 customers lost electricity briefly Wednesday morning in downtown Charleston.

The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for a woman who went overboard from a Charleston-based cruise ship that was traveling near the Bahamas.