Rumors & Notes: 8/15 – 8/17

TOP STORIES

• Former Gamecocks football player arrested in King Street assault that fractured Bluffton man’s skull (Post & Courier).
• NTSB begins investigation of fatal Mt. Pleasant plane crash (ABC News 4).
  • Authorities move plane from fatal Mt. Pleasant crash scene (Live 5 News).
  • Family honors young pilot through scholarship (Live 5 News).
• Charleston city officials to propose revamped bar-closing ban (ABC News 4).
• Cops: Man shoots employee after finding no money at N. Charleston store (Live 5 News).
• Vet who first saw doctor’s 9 dead dogs: ‘A horrible mistake’ (ABC News 4).
• S.C. House Speaker Bobby Harrell announces grand jury probe has ended (Post & Courier).
• Father faces son’s coworker, accused killer in bond court (ABC News 4).

FOOD/BEV

• What’s Brewing in Dixie: 10 New Southern Breweries (Garden & Gun).
• Local Teen Wins Food Network Competition (News 2).
• BLU hires new executive chef (Post & Courier).
• Allagash/Stone Beer Dinner at Home Team BBQ This September (HCS).
• Poptails, yellow bloodies and grapefruit tonic (Post & Courier).

POLITICS

• Summerville Council rejects censorship, OKs tax money for theater group (Post & Courier).
• US History course framework called ‘leftist, anti-American’ (Post & Courier).
• Hollings endorses Tecklenburg in Charleston mayor’s race (Post & Courier).
• Berkeley paves way to ask voters to extend roads sales tax (Post & Courier).

ENTERTAINMENT/SPORTS

• Three in a row: North Charleston’s Corey Washington scores another game-winner for New York Giants (Post & Courier).

• Beach community working to raise $15,000 for autism surfing camp (Live 5 News).
• South Carolina ranked No. 9, Clemson No. 16 in Associated Press preseason poll (Post & Courier).
• Jazz On The River Scheduled for August 31st (HCS).
• Chasing Summerville’s John McKissick: J.T. Curtis might become high school football’s winningest coach (Post & Courier).

• Jadeveon Clowney dominates the Atlanta Falcons on two straight plays (Yahoo Sports).

• Citadel running back is also ‘World’s Second-Fastest Hand Clapper’ (Post & Courier).
• Social media recap: A sea turtle smile; Elliott Summey goes big on ALS challenge (Post & Courier).
• Writers’ Groups Now Forming for 2014-2015 (LILA Connects).
• Holy City Sinner Takes the Ice Bucket Challenge (HCS).
• Charleston closes seven-game homestand with 5-2 mark (ABC News 4).

SCHOOLS

• Charleston School Board adds new Lincoln High School to sales tax referendum (News 2).
• Charleston School Board forgoes debate when, for once, they needed it (Post & Courier).
• Wando Center for Advanced Studies ready for students (Live 5 News).
• Families flock to annual Charleston First Day Festival (Post & Courier).
• S.C. universities collaborating with Sea Grant Consortium to study stormwater ponds (Post & Courier).
• An offer neither Hanahan nor Berkeley schools can refuse (Post & Courier).

MISC

• Police investigate armed robbery in North Charleston (News 2).
• SC gets $2 million to help homeless veterans (ABC News 4).
• SC seventh worst for underprivileged children, national study says (Myrtle Beach Online).
• South Carolina leaders rally in support of Israel at Charleston synagogue (Post & Courier).
• 1 killed, another hospitalized in Johns Island crash (ABC News 4).
• Two BSCO Deputies driving with suspended licenses (Charleston Thug Life).
  • One was fired (CTL).
• Cost of new Dorchester County jail grows to $23 million (Post & Courier).
• Victim of brutal beating arrested on child pornography charges (Live 5 News).
• Combing for beach; grant to pay for offshore sand inventory (Post & Courier).
• Conflicts arising as higher density development moves into the Charleston area suburbs (Post & Courier).
• Dispatch: Crews respond to report of vehicle in water (Live 5 News).
• This S.C. tax credit is a big incentive to help fund community development groups (Post & Courier).
• North Charleston man, 4 others arrested in GA child sex investigation (ABC News 4).
• Conservation, business partnerships evolve (Post & Courier).
• SC veterinarian confirms 2 cases of equine illness (ABC News 4).
• Swanky Sanctuary hotel at Kiawah Island hits the 10-year mark (Post & Courier).
• Conflicts arising as higher density development moves into the Charleston area suburbs (Post & Courier).
• PD: Employee shot during robbery in North Charleston (ABC News 4).
• Bi-Lo plans to shutter a Summerville location (Post & Courier).
• 2014 Big Read in Charleston (LILA Connects).
• One dead after single car crash in Berkeley County (Live 5 News).
• Feds find strong opinions about drilling off SC (ABC News 4).
• SC agencies launching Sober or Slammer campaign (ABC News 4).
• Reports: Argument over missing cake leads to assault, arrest (Live 5 News).
• Charleston businesses support ‘Big, Gay’ wedding (ABC News 4).

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