Rumors & Notes: 1/18 – 1/19/14

TOP STORIES

• 11 Charleston cab drivers cited for overcharging (ABC News 4).
• American LaFrance shutting down in Moncks Corner (ABC News 4).
• Recovered: Group says they found dog stolen from adoption drive (ABC News 4).
• Folly Beach renourishment to start this weekend (ABC News 4).

MLK DAY

• Former Senator Robert Ford talks about working with Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Live 5 News).
• Retired Charleston judge, former ambassador challenge, entertain at MLK service (Post & Courier).
• MLK celebration honoring legacy (Live 5 News).
• NC social protest leader at SC King Day ceremony (ABC News 4).
• Son of civil rights activists speaks about MLK day and his mother’s legacy (Live 5 News).

FOOD

• Poogan’s Porch Rollback Menu Returns (Post & Courier).
• Black Bean downtown to serve late-night eats (Charleston City Paper).
• $35 Three-Course Daily Special Debuts at The Ordinary (Post & Courier).
• Dellz Deli Expanding to James Island? (Facebook).
• Middleton Place and Holy City Team Up for Beer Dinner (Post & Courier).
• Newly Renovated Big John’s Prepares to Re-Open This Week (Post & Courier).
• Next Up For Bittermilk: Sazeracs (Post & Courier).
• The Chew to Air Coverage of Kevin Johnson’s Farm Dinner (Post & Courier).
• Sunrise Bistro Express Open on Spring Street (Post & Courier).
• Taste of Folly Serves Up Samples From 20 Local Restaurants (Post & Courier).

SPORTS

• UNC Asheville gets past Charleston Southern, 80-76 (ABC News 4).
• Towson tops Cougars, 72-57 (Post & Courier).
• Neighbors: Marathon runners damaged baseball field with cars (ABC News 4).

GUNS IN BARS

• Some bar owners, tenders wary of allowing guns in (ABC News 4).

• S.C. Senate: Guns are fine at bars and restaurants, but not at the Statehouse (Charleston City Paper).

MISC

• Battery construction project shaking up the neighborhood (ABC News 4).
• Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich to visit Charleston on book tour (Post & Courier).
• ‘Musty, earthy’ taste in tap water continues in Beaufort (ABC News 4).

• Glenn McConnell among more than 100 applicants for CofC presidency (Charleston City Paper).

• Murder suspect’s father: ‘You do everything right but you never know’ (ABC News 4).
• Beaufort Co. school psychologist resigns amid sexual battery charges (Live 5 News).
• Car crashes through front wall of Goose Creek home (ABC News 4).
• Lacoste to close King St. store, Avondale hosts its own restaurant week, other retail happenings (Post & Courier).
• Arrest made after gunshot victim left at Beaufort hospital (ABC News 4).
• Cainhoy Plantation, where potential clash between development, conservation looms (Post & Courier).
• Fort Bragg soldiers to train with SC deputies (ABC News 4).
• Charleston in Pictures: Whose pictures are they? (Post & Courier).

• Bill Murray answers the big questions: Should pot be legal, best ‘SNL’ cast ever and accidentally being in ‘Garfield’ (Yahoo).

• Medicare posts hospitals’ ‘clean and dirty laundry’ on Hospital Compare website (Post & Courier).
• Guy Harvey exhibit opens at aquarium (ABC News 4).
• Nexton shifts focus to residential development (Post & Courier).
• Shooting victim dropped off at Beaufort hospital (Live 5 News).
• DHEC, DNR to study state’s river basins, implement new water-use plan (Post & Courier).
  • DHEC says Barnwell leak old news, no danger (Post & Courier).
• Mother says 6 year old ‘on the mend’ after being hit walking to school (ABC News 4).
• Grapevine: Got a Tesla? You’ve got a place in South Carolina to recharge (Post & Courier).
• Deputies investigating Peanut Shack armed robbery (Live 5 News).
• Aiken teacher uses Barbie dolls for Algebra lesson (Post & Courier).
• West Ashley home heavily damaged in afternoon blaze (Live 5 News).
• SC man found under home’s rubble beaten to death (ABC News 4).
• New MRI machine puts power of comfort in patient’s hands (Live 5 News).

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