Rumors & Notes: 7/30/15

TOP STORIES

• Pinckney family to launch charity foundation on slain Senator’s 42nd birthday (Live 5 News).
• Coroner identifies victims in double fatal Hwy. 61 head-on collision (Live 5 News).
• Coast Guard extends search for overdue paddle boarder to Mt. Pleasant (Live 5 News).
• Legal battle over cruise terminal continues on after Supreme Court decision (ABC News 4).
• ESPN to Air Special on Emanuel AME Victim’s Son & the Charleston Shooting (HCS).

FOOD/BEV

• Meet the Team at Upcoming Parlor Deluxe (Eater Charleston).
• The 5th Annual Sol Slam is this Weekend at The Windjammer (HCS).
• Counter Culture opens tasting training center (Post & Courier).
• The July SoCal Block Party is Friday (HCS).
• Sandwiches and some sides shine at Smoke BBQ on King Street (Post & Courier).
• Charleston eatery serving southern cuisine tops list of US dining spots with local, sustainable ethos (Yahoo).
• Proof pops up in New Orleans for world’s biggest bartending convention (Post & Courier).
• Is Johns Island’s The Tattooed Moose Open Yet? (Eater Charleston).

ENTERTAINMENT/SPORTS

• Two Charleston tourist attractions cutting their rates for most of September (Post & Courier).
• G&G Interview: Coach John McKissick (Garden & Gun).
• First Southern Soul Festival brings R&B, old-school hip-hop to North Charleston (Post & Courier).
• Vikki Matsis and the Ohm Radio crew launch a commercial-free station (Charleston City Paper).
• MUSC Health replaces Blackbaud as naming sponsor for Battery stadium (Charleston Regional Business Journal).
• The Most RACES Show on Earth! Returns to the Charleston Music Hall (HCS).
• Theatre 99 pulls out all its improv tricks with ‘the Funny Bucket’ (Post & Courier).
• San Francisco Giants Scout Ed Creech, a Columbia native, will be inducted into the Professional Baseball Scouts Hall of Fame (Charleston RiverDogs).
• Mean Mary comes into her own by way of the banjo (Charleston City Paper).

POLITICS

• SC gay marriage plaintiffs can now seek legal fees (ABC News 4).
• Limericks inspired by the likes of Henry David Thoreau to Joe Riley (Post & Courier).
• Blondie the horse’s accident raises moral questions about the carriage tour industry (Charleston City Paper).
• Victories earned in LGBT community lead to many shifts in local queer culture (Post & Courier).
• Comment period open on new permit for Union Pier cruise terminal project (Charleston Regional Business Journal).
• Quintin’s Close-ups: Dot Scott (HCS).
• Lawyers head to court as tab for Berkeley probe reaches nearly $700,000 (Post & Courier).
• Two Medal of Honor recipients on Jeb Bush South Carolina committee (Post & Courier).

MISC

• Deputies seek man for possible CDV homicide (ABC News 4).
• Girl, 5, kicked in the head by carriage company mule Wednesday (ABC News 4).
• Palmetto Goodwill to host hiring event for Kiawah Island Golf Resort (News 2).
• In the wake of Ohio shooting. many Tri-County agencies still shopping body cameras (Live 5 News).
• Officer-involved shootings up in SC (News 2).
• Two Lowcountry men recount their week stranded at sea 10 years ago (ABC News 4).
• School supply drives planned around the Lowcountry (ABC News 4).
• Nexton Elementary to regularly use technology in classroom (Live 5 News).
• Low Country Laundry & Dry Cleaners Announces Giving Back Program (Eskimo Advertising).
• Service call turns into lasting relationship between CPD officer and child (Live 5 News).
• UPDATE: 3 dogs muzzled with duct tape removed from home today (ABC News 4).
• Traffic Alert: Nighttime Lane Closure on Glenn McConnell Parkway (Charleston County).
• Authorities close downtown Charleston street for structure fire (Live 5 News).
• Hotel proposed for old Cooper River bridge site in Charleston (Post & Courier).
• New investors plan to jump-start Magnolia project (Charleston Regional Business Journal).
• Teacher honors Emanuel shooting victims (Post & Courier).
• Coast Guard searching for missing Florida paddle boarder (ABC News 4).
• Basketmakers get a sweet ‘pull’ of the past (Post & Courier).
• Boeing chairman’s Ex-Im comments draw heat from union, yawns from analysts (Post & Courier).
• Georgetown County burglary suspects behind bars, authorities say (News 2).

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