Новости за 22.01.2016

Lawyers for Michael Slager on Friday filed paperwork asking for Walter Scott’s military records, which could form part of a defense for the former North Charleston police officer charged in Scott’s shooting death.

CLEMSON — A near-record 96 underclassmen have applied for and been granted entry into the 2016 NFL Draft selection pool, announced by the league Friday.

COLUMBIA — The players say they don’t look beyond the next game. The head coach says success is not always defined by the final score. And yet those self-imposed blinders can’t hide the reality South Carolina is facing — a potential first NCAA Tournament berth in a dozen seasons.

Officials are working to determine the cause of death after a man’s body was found Friday morning inside a house on Johns Island.

It will be some time before the body inside the truck that was pulled from the water near the Folly Beach boat ramp Thursday night is positively identified, but initial indications point to a Nebraska man who was reported missing in December.

It is never easy to capture ascent in a snapshot. Big picture? The Clemson rise from a capable program to long stay at No. 1 started when former athletic director Terry Don Phillips made a risky move promoting Dabo Swinney, a non-coordinator tied to a struggling program.

Prime real estate along Charleston Harbor will be put up for bids next week as the State Ports Authority takes the first step toward selling its Concord Street offices and an adjacent site where the Fleet Landing restaurant now operates.

Tips from the public led to an arrest after a $4,515 heist from a downtown Charleston store last week, according to police.

William Christopher Swinney was asked to project a decade ahead.

Earnings at Charleston-based bank owner Carolina Financial Corp. more than doubled in the last three months of 2015, driven by loan growth, fee increases and mortgage income.

WASHINGTON — One in seven Americans will get at least half a foot of snow outside their homes when this weekend’s big storm has finished delivering blizzards, gale-force winds, white-out conditions and flooding to much of the eastern United States.

Rachel Gordon is the local designer behind the fashion label One Love Designs. She works by appointment at her studio at 478 King St. She spoke with the Charleston Scene this week about her craft.

BEAUFORT, S.C. — Prosecutors are investigating robbery and jealousy as possible motives in the case of a restaurant operator shot and killed on the porch of his Bluffton home last year.

GLENDALE, Ariz. — They lost players for various reasons beginning last spring and the list grew longer as the football season went on.

In the moments after Clemson’s 45-40 loss to Alabama in the College Football Playoff national championship game, Tigers coach Dabo Swinney paid tribute to the fans.

The chunk of metal strapped over Deshaun Watson’s left knee was supposed to be a temporary hindrance.

Update 8 a.m. — All clear

COLUMBIA — A new poll of self-identified Democratic South Carolina voters puts presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton with a 19 percentage point lead over U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders.

COLUMBIA — A new poll of likely self-identified Democratic South Carolina voters puts presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton with a 19 percentage point lead over U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Sleet was reported in Moncks Corner on Friday afternoon as the Lowcountry braced for a very close pass by a winter storm.

This morning’s rain in the Lowcountry is likely to get heavier this afternoon, according to the National Weather Service.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Much of northern South Carolina remained under winter weather advisories and warnings as what forecasters call a "potentially crippling winter storm" began to pass through the state Friday morning.

What: Paddle through rice fields and canals that now serve as one of the richest wildlife habitats in the Lowcountry. A registered and paid chaperone is required for participants ages 15 and under. Call 843-795-4386 or go online to register.

It was, in some ways, quite a touching moment.

There are a few good reasons to attend the Lowcountry Oyster Festival at Boone Hall Plantation, making its 33rd annual appearance on Jan. 31. Maybe you’re keen to ogle 80,000 pounds of bivalves (and the people who crowd around them.) Perhaps you have a...