Новости за 16.09.2016

Morning traffic in the Charleston area was moving swiftly early Friday with no major tie-ups reported.

Pushed by the harvest moon, a king tide is expected Friday night, and forecasters are cautioning people to be ready for beach flooding, spot flooding and road closures.

With Tropical Storm Julia lingering over the ocean off South Carolina, the Charleston area will see a daily chance of rainfall through the weekend and the start of next week.

What: The Friends of the Berkeley County Library will host a two day community book sale. Proceeds from the sale will go to the Berkeley County Library System.

Here’s a surprise: The folks studying Charleston’s horse carriage regulations can’t seem to reach a consensus.

Almost all of LaVondilyn Watson’s customers ask the same question when she arrives for the first time with their food delivery: "We get a whole pan of the cornbread?" And not one of them is sorry when she answers affirmatively.

Changes in signage and crowd control should make for a smoother start to today’s Le Creuset discount sale at the Charleston Area Convention Center, a spokeswoman for the cookware company says.

I’ll say one thing for Colin Kaepernick: For a guy who flashed onto the sports stage only to plummet into obscurity, he has found a way to make himself "relevant" again.

I am an associate professor at the Medical University of South Carolina. I am dismayed after reading your Aug. 26 article titled "Is it business or pleasure? MUSC board members rack up thousands on luxury hotels, meals."

A recent editorial and an op-ed in The Post and Courier informed readers that Venice, Italy, once an exquisitely beautiful city, has been ruined by its transformation into a "rapacious tourist monoculture."

Hillary Clinton as secretary of state must have had a high security clearance. Even with a low-level security clearance you get training on the different types of clearances, including the markings for each. Once again Hillary is deceiving the public by claiming she didn’t know (C) meant classified.

Conservatives have lost a lot of credibility on abortion. They should not expect to be believed when they claim that Hillary Clinton and her Supreme Court will overturn the Second Amendment and all anti-abortion laws. Neither Hillary nor her Supreme Court can singlehandedly do that. The process is much more complicated. They should not expect to...

The Water Resources Development Act that the U.S. Senate approved Thursday by a vote of 95-3 addresses an issue of critical interest to South Carolina — and the rest of the country.

Hillary Clinton said last Friday night: "You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? Racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic, you name it."

It happens to celebrities on Nickelodeon, so why not to celebrated monuments in the nation’s capital?

Every major grocery and fast-food chain in the U.S. has pledged to stop selling or using eggs from caged chickens. So that’s all taken care of — a great victory for animal-rights campaigners, and presumably chickens. Yay!

WASHINGTON — If you are the status quo candidate in a change election in which the national mood is sour and two-thirds of the electorate think the country is on the wrong track, what do you do? Attack. Relentlessly. Paint your opponent as extremist, volatile, clueless, unfit, dangerous.

People often ask me why I (Perry Jameson) chose veterinary medicine over human medicine. At the time of my decision more than 30 years ago, it was as simple as I liked animals and science. Veterinary medicine allowed me to combine the two and help people and their pets in the process.

TORONTO — About five years ago, screenwriter Kelly Fremon Craig was on her way out of a meeting with James L. Brooks about a script she had written. Before she left, she turned around and said, "Nobody will ever work harder than I will."

LOS ANGELES — Shirley Chisholm memorably billed herself as "unbought and unbossed" when she ran for president in 1972.

DAVIS, Ronald, 70, of North Charleston, husband of Frances Davis, died Wednesday. Arrangements by Simplicity Lowcountry Cremation and Burial Services.

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Q: I love my old wired earbuds. Will I still be able to use my earbuds with the new iPhone 7?

When posting on Facebook, getting the weather, or checking email, you’re probably using an app. According to a new report from comScore, apps now consume 50-percent of the time an average person spends on his or her smartphone. With that in mind, here are five great apps that do the same old thing, just so much better.

GREENVILLE — The widow of slain Sen. Clementa Pinckney, one of the nine worshippers gunned down at Emanuel AME Church, told a panel of senators examining South Carolina’s gun laws that his murder should be a lesson.