Rumors & Notes: 4/14/14

TOP STORIES

• Woman, daughters describe terror after Folly Beach man’s arrest in murder-for-hire plot (Post & Courier).
  • Prosecutor: Alimony payments led to Folly man’s murder-for-hire plot (ABC News 4).
• CofC, former professor named in sex assault lawsuit by student (ABC News 4).
• South Carolina graded “F” for ethics laws as debate rages on (News 2).
• Lunar eclipse Lowcountry bound tonight (The Digitel).

FOOD

• Bay Street Biergarten mentioned in USA Today (USA Today).
• Treat Joan to lunch at High Cotton (Charleston City Paper).
• The Starbucks on East Bay Street is hosting a marsh clean-up on Thursday (Starbucks).
• Lawmakers Look to Combat Seafood Fraud (ABC News).
• Details Still Slim at Union Provisions (Eater Charleston).

SPORTS

• Late comeback halted on Seersucker Sunday (ABC News 4).
• Local runner remembers last year’s Boston Marathon bombings (News 2).
• Clemson dismisses QB Kelly after sideline argument (ABC News 4).
• Anon. NFL Exec Calls Clowney Lazy, Spoiled (WLTX).
• Columbia’s A’ja Wilson, nation’s No. 1 women’s basketball recruit, narrows choices to USC, UNC, UConn, Tennessee (Post & Courier).

POLITICS/POLICY

• S.C. House passes 1 percent sales tax for Charleston County schools (Post & Courier).
• Liberty Rally on Customhouse steps in Charleston decries “big government” (Post & Courier).
• Rick Santorum makes political stops in Charleston (ABC News 4).
• Superintendent candidate thinks theater piece is lesbian recruitment seminar (Charleston City Paper).
• Haley signs Emma’s Law (ABC News 4).
• Berkeley County mulls change in political sign enforcement (Post & Courier).

MISC

• Court date set for Sanford divorce dispute (Post & Courier).
• Report: 3 busted with drugs in N. Charleston hotel (Live 5 News).

• Patriots Point named DoD partner (Charleston Regional Business Journal).

• Citadel Recognition Day Photo Gallery (Post & Courier).
• Officials hope to put end to ‘profound crisis’ in corrections bureau (Post & Courier).
• After nearly a decade, court order puts focus on troubled inmates (Post & Courier).
• Deputies say deadly shooting of 7-year-old was accidental (Live 5 News).
• Interstate 526 completion facing more roadblocks (Post & Courier).
• Largest venomous rattlesnakes in N. America tracked in Francis Marion (Live 5 News).
• Christian-based movie filming in the Lowcountry (Berkeley Observer).
• YesCarolina a movement of entrepreneurship in area schools (ABC News 4).

• Join the Movement Mondays to Benefit Darkness to Light (Out To Eat With Kids).

• Criminal records leave mentally ill struggling to succeed (Post & Courier).

• Ga. firm plans residential development for Mixson (Charleston Regional Business Journal).

• Girl’s USC rejection letter turns out to be prom proposal (Live 5 News).
• The Steel Rollers are changing their name to Hobos at Large (Facebook).
• DHEC wants public’s help tracking West Nile in SC (Live 5 News).
  
• 40 Ways You Know You’re From South Carolina (Thought Catalog).
• Lowcountry high schoolers face off against ‘hackers’ at cyber competition (Live 5 News).
• Charleston County sheriff’s deputies arrest woman accused of stabbing boyfriend during argument (Post & Courier).
• North Charleston firefighters called when Psycho won’t come down from tree (Post & Courier).
• Student tops geography bee for fourth straight year (Live 5 News).
• Former Berkeley County deputy charged with illegally selling guns (ABC News 4).
• 1,700 local kids in need get swimming lessons from Lowcountry Aquatic Project Swimming (Post & Courier).
• Animal rights group accuses Yemassee monkey lab of inhumane conditions (Live 5 News).
• Orangeburg County Sheriff’s Office looking for missing woman (News 2).
• Man arrested for defecating in lobby of downtown Charleston hotel (ABC News 4).
• Man wanted for assaulting daughter surrenders to investigators (Live 5 News).
• Victims of crime come together in North Charleston (News 2).
• Live 5 Most Wanted fugitive behind bars after more than three years on the run (Live 5 News).
• Young girl’s quick action saves drowning bird on Sullivan’s (ABC News 4).
• CARTA wraps up new revenue with big bus ads (Post & Courier).
• Fight over marijuana leads to fatal stabbing (ABC News 4).
• Dept. of Education pulls out of Smarter Balanced testing on Common Core standards (Post & Courier).
• Archer’s Pam loves hanging out with Myrtle Beach ‘Rebels’ (The Digitel).
• 3 men wanted on a series of Orangeburg burglaries (ABC News 4).

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