Новости за 15.03.2016

COLUMBIA — NCAA Tournament snubs like the one which befell South Carolina this season have led the SEC to add a new advisor the league hopes will boost its flagging reputation in men’s basketball.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Gov. Nikki Haley said Tuesday that she will almost certainly sign a bill banning abortion past 19 weeks in South Carolina.

Charleston’s Planning Commission will vote Wednesday on a change to an ordinance that would lessen the group’s clout and impact several development projects already in the works.

Hotel occupancy in Charleston County was up 5.3 percent in February from a year earlier, courtesy of the presidential election visits and the Southeastern Wildlife Exposition.

MOUNT PLEASANT — A Town Council committee recommended no changes in the regulation of short-term rentals Tuesday, but found that licensing, taxation, and fire safety deserve additional study.

MOUNT PLEASANT — A Town Council committee recommended no changes in the regulation of short-term rentals Tuesday, but found that licensing, taxation, and fire safety deserve additional study.

A North Charleston woman is suing the Charleston County jail after being denied a phone call for 14 hours and shocked with a Taser while strapped in a chair.

The 2016 college football season will kick off on Aug. 27 with Charleston Southern playing at North Dakota State in the first game of the season.

BY DAVID SHELTON

Charleston police are asking for help identifying a man they say filled with his pockets with $600 worth of merchandise from the shelves of a downtown drugstore.

SMBC Aviation Capital is taking delivery of its first 787-8 Dreamliner, a North Charleston-made airplane that will be leased to Air Europa as part of the carrier’s transition to an all-Boeing fleet.

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Mark Sanford will travel to Cuba with President Barack Obama and other members of Congress next week.

FIG’s wine program was nominated Tuesday for a prestigious James Beard Foundation award, further cementing the downtown restaurant’s status as the city’s culinary juggernaut.

AIKEN, S.C. — A state prosecutor has cleared three Aiken county sheriff’s deputies in the 2015 shooting death of a 57-year-old Aiken man during a confrontation at his home.

WASHINGTON – Students from Summerville High School were recently named winners in C-SPAN’s national 2016 StudentCam competition.

CHARLESTON, S.C. — A former guard has pleaded guilty to bringing drugs into a federal prison in South Carolina.

Major assembly of Boeing’s first 787-10 Dreamliner, which will be built exclusively at the company’s North Charleston campus, started on Monday — two weeks ahead of schedule.

Major assembly of Boeing Co.’s first 787-10 Dreamliner, which will be built exclusively at the company’s North Charleston campus, started on Monday — two weeks ahead of schedule.

NEW YORK — Jerry Springer, a man who knows something about out-of-control television, says the raucous Republican campaign is too much even for him.

GREENVILLE, S.C. — Sheriff deputies say a man facing two murder charges in Greenville has been arrested in Georgia after he escaped house arrest.

HILPON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. — A $20 million project to rebuild the beaches on Hilton Head Island is being delayed.

An $18.3 million bill has come due for a Mount Pleasant-based bank owner.

On June 27, 2014, the fourth installment in the "Transformers" film franchise was released in theaters.

The groundswell of residents who opposed opening the Lowcountry’s offshore waters to drilling for oil and natural gas had help from an unlikely white knight: the Navy.

The ocean off South Carolina will not be opened to seismic testing and drilling for oil and natural gas, likely for at least five years.