Rumors & Notes: 8/11/14

NATIONAL NEWS

• Robin Williams Dead: Beloved Actor Dies In Apparent Suicide (Huffington Post).

TOP CHARLESTON STORIES

• Police responding to reported shooting in North Charleston (Live 5 News).

• Exclusive: Boeing 787 output hiccups reemerge at assembly sites (Reuters).
• Police investigate second sucker punch incident on King Street (ABC News 4).
• Charleston Emergency Management re-evaluates flooding-safety procedures (ABC News 4).
• Charleston AFB plane makes another humanitarian airdrop (Post & Courier).
• Detectives investigate death, ‘suspicious situation’ in Murrells Inlet (Live 5 News).
  • Detectives discover moonshine amid Murrells Inlet death investigation (Live 5 News).
• Map for Charleston Harbor gets first update since 1936 (Post & Courier).

FOOD

• S.C. farmers faring better than a year ago (Post & Courier).
• What to Expect From Year 10 of the Wine + Food Festival (Eater Charleston).
• Recap: Bombay Sapphire’s “Most Imaginative Bartender Competition” (HCS).

• At Edmund’s Oast, Summer Cocktails Are A Breeze (Charleston Grit).
• Friday at The Glass Onion: Julia Child’s Birthday Dinner (HCS).
• FIG Promotes Server Morgan Calcote to GM (Eater Charleston).
• My Father’s Moustache Announces English Breakfast Menu and Early Weekend Hours (HCS).
• Folly Beach Brunch (Folly Beach).

POLITICS

• As Haley touts welfare program, critics question its results (Post & Courier).
• Obama’s action in Iraq sets off partisan debate among S.C. reps (Post & Courier).
• U.S. Rep. Mark Sanford heading to China for congressional visit (Post & Courier).
• Turmoil continues at DSS despite added staff, change in leadership (Post & Courier).
• Hanahan mayor plans to address Berkeley school board on school site (Post & Courier).

SPORTS

• Long, costly legal battle looming after Doug Wojcik fired by College of Charleston (Post & Courier).
• SEC Network fall slate of college football programming (News 2).
• South Carolina Highway Patrol takes on Georgia Highway Patrol in charity softball game (Post & Courier).
• Some dog-drive deer hunters foresee demise of sport in Lowcountry (Post & Courier).
• Sertoma schedule clashes titans with pair of huge games Thursday (ABC News 4).
• Summerville’s Zack Bailey commits to South Carolina over Clemson (Post & Courier).

• Charleston Moves gets new digs and a new director (Charleston City Paper).

• Panthers out to break single-season sack record (ABC News 4).
• Little League honors Chester mom who volunteers (Post & Courier).
• The MLK, Jr. Pool at 155 Jackson St. will be closed until further notice due to storm damage (Twitter).
• Matthew Moldenhauer and Sandy O’Keefe win Charleston Sprint Triathlon Series Championship (Post & Courier).

ENTERTAINMENT

• Get 50% OFF Southern Bridal Show Tickets (InTown).
• Mex 1 Hosts The Endless Summer Party & Bikini Fashion Show (HCS).
• Orangeburg native stars in new Spielberg movie (Live 5 News).
• Music Farm Hosts “Bring Your Own Vinyl” Happy Hour This Week (HCS).
• Drum Circle – A Haven of Acceptance in Charleston (Charleston Daily).

MISC

• Mount Pleasant man sights, films strange aircraft over Charleston (Post & Courier).
• Deputies say Awendaw man, 56, threatened them with shotgun, ‘booby trap’ (Post & Courier).
• Fire destroys $25M plant building near Charleston (ABC News 4).
• New builder, community coming to Cane Bay Plantation (Post & Courier).
• Hollings Cancer Center receives $3.4 million federal grant (Post & Courier).
• In South Carolina, where 46 percent of folks have debt in collections, credit score change could help (Post & Courier).
• James Island Charter High makes changes to cell phone policy (Live 5 News).
• Rift between Charleston industry recruiter, counties widens (Post & Courier).
• Commission approves SC amendment explanations (ABC News 4).
• Following complaints, Mount Pleasant Council will consider lowering allowable building height (Post & Courier).
• Coroner IDs body found at Charleston City Marina (Live 5 News).
• Mother-daughter duo starting teaching careers together at Windsor Hill (Post & Courier).
• Rescuers: Body of second person swept away in flood found in lake (Live 5 News).
• 15 Reasons You Should Date Someone From South Carolina (Movoto).
• Man sentenced to 55 years for double murder in Berkeley County (Live 5 News).
• Beaufort County adds GPS to school buses (ABC News 4).
• News 2, News Radio 94.3 and the American Red Cross team up for the “Be a Hero” blood drive (News 2).
• Charleston region’s home sales keep climbing in July, group says (Post & Courier).
• Officials make arrest in connection with assault at Walmart (News 2).

• SC man goes to jail to report he killed his wife (Live 5 News).

• CA man arrested for coming to SC for sex with minor (ABC News 4).
• Volunteers needed in rural areas to give cancer patients rides to treatment (Live 5 News).
• 1 killed in crash in Colleton County (ABC News 4).
• Two dead in South Carolina traffic wrecks last weekend (Post & Courier).
• Sheriff’s office: Amateur MMA fighter, girlfriend arrested on drug dealing charges (Live 5 News).
• Work to close lane of southbound Ashley River bridge (Post & Courier).

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