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Charleston area voters have four runoff elections set for Tuesday, all of which will settle Republican contests.

In the wake of last year’s shootings at Emanuel AME Church, a group of Lowcountry preservationists quickly stepped in to help the church collect and care for the thousands of items that well wishers left outside its sanctuary.

Corey Clagett is not a kid anymore. He has spent a decade alone in a prison cell.

Brandon Riley caught five bass that weighed 17.10 pounds, including the tournament’s big fish at 6.52 pounds, to win the Creekside Bassmasters’ June club tournament fished out of Cypress Gardens Boat Landing. Jason Cribb was second with five bass that weighed 12.04 pounds and Sid Fowler Sr. third with five bass that weighed 10.94...

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Five Charleston-area golfers made it into the field of 32 for the S.C. Amateur Match Play Championship that was played at Bear Creek Golf Club on Hilton Head Island.

With June being a peak time for Lowcountry harvesting, we asked readers to share photos and stories about what they are growing and picking in their veggie patches this year.

COLUMBIA — Another South Carolina baseball player is headed into the professional ranks.

CONWAY, S.C. — A judge has declared a mistrial in the trial of a man charged with kidnapping a teen who has not been seen in 30 months.

COLUMBIA — It begins, almost always, with whispers.

The State Port Authority’s new system to allow trucks in and out of the Wando Welch Terminal in Mount Pleasant caused traffic jams this week, but president and CEO Jim Newsome said the port should be caught up by the end of next week.

ST. LOUIS — A draft of the Democratic Party’s policy positions reflects the influence of Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign: endorsing steps to break up large Wall Street banks, advocating a $15 hourly wage, urging an end to the death penalty.

Former Wando High School swimmer Zach Lierley will compete in three events in the USA Olympic Trials set to begin Sunday in Omaha, Nebraska.

By Toby Sterling, Reuters AMSTERDAM – A Dutch foundation has developed floating barriers to try to collect trash from the world’s oceans, and will launch a 100 meter-long prototype in the North Sea this week to see how it fares during storms. Image courtesy of usgpeople.com   The Ocean Cleanup Foundation’s 21-year-old Chief Executive Boyan Slat, who first had the idea for the system as a teenager, hopes to use the technology in an enormous area where trash circulates in the northern Pacific Ocean, from 2020. Читать дальше...

Stratford High School Fishing Club members Nate Burkett and Brandon Jones finished second in last weekend’s South Carolina State Fishing Championship held on the Santee Cooper lakes and in the process qualified to compete next fall in the southeast regional championship.

With so many free gardening resources on the internet, such as Clemson’s Home Garden Information Center (clemson.edu/hgic), why should a gardener purchase books?

CUMBERNAULD, Scotland – A survey from a Scottish eye care company could be sparking a color controversy similar to last year’s debate over “The Dress.” Optical Express says on its website that it conducted a survey in the United Kingdom asking whether a swatch of a teal-type color was blue or green. The company says 64 percent of more than 1,000 people who responded said it was green. Thirty-two percent thought it was blue. But when the same people were shown the same color between a pair of distinctly blue swatches, many changed their minds. Читать дальше...