Rumors & Notes: 12/29/15

TOP STORIES

• Charleston Marriott: Don’t Include Our Hotel in Same Photo as Massacre Church (Gawker).
  • Charleston hotel manager apologizes for photo request in Mother Emanuel AME tweet (Post & Courier).
  • Public relations experts offer tips on dealing with social media gaffes (Post & Courier).
• South Carolina comes through death and destruction with hope (ABC News 4).
• Four people face charges in Christmas day stabbing, including man who was stabbed (ABC News 4).
• Santee Cooper board OKs Century Aluminum deal to provide 100 percent of smelter’s power (ABC News 4).
  • 300 Century Aluminum employees dodge layoffs with new deal (News 2).
• Attorney for Charleston County man says official account of police shooting ‘wholly inaccurate’ (Post & Courier).
• Hundreds fill McKissick Stadium to remember Summerville High teen killed in car crash (ABC News 4).
• Ex-cop Slager sues police group for failing to defend him in Walter Scott murder case (ABC News 4).
• N. Charleston authorities searching for runaway teenager (Live 5 News).

FOOD/BEV

• Starbucks wants to sell alcohol at 4 Charleston area shops (Post & Courier).
• Friends of Eater Name Their Best Meal for 2015 (Eater Charleston).
  • Food Writers and Editors Name the Best Dining Neighborhood of 2015.
  • Restaurant Gurus on the Biggest Dining Surprises of 2015.
  • What Were the Top Restaurant Newcomers of 2015?
  • Friends of Eater on Restaurant Standbys of 2015.
  • Eater Charleston’s Top Posts of 2015.
• The case against Waffle House (Charleston City Paper).
• SC Legal Services hires attorney to help victims of wage theft recover money (Post & Courier).

ENTERTAINMENT/SPORTS

• Live 5’s Top 10 Sports Stories of 2015 (Live 5 News).
• Southern Charm: Plot Thickening (FITS News).
• The Charleston Music Hall’s Film Series Returns in January (HCS).
• NFL legend crashed Clemson football practice (News 2).
  • Clemson’s Dabo Swinney finds peace following father’s death (Post & Courier).
• Annual Renaissance Weekend starts with interfaith service at Mother Emanuel (Live 5 News).
• North Charleston ends Roundball streak (Post & Courier).
• SC native, former Harlem Globetrotter Lee Holman dies (Live 5 News).

POLITICS/GOV

• Shooting thrusts Haley into national spotlight (Post & Courier).
• Rep. Trey Gowdy endorsement for Marco Rubio should produce ‘a modest bump’ (Post & Courier).
• James Island Public Service District prepares to collect residents’ garbage half as often (Post & Courier).
• Quintin’s Close-ups: Mayor Joe Riley (HCS).
• State, some local employees get five-day weekend (Post & Courier).
• Donald Trump back in South Carolina this week (Post & Courier).
• DHEC proposes changing midwife regulations for infant safety (Post & Courier).
• What synchronizing traffic signals in Charleston can (and can’t) do (Post & Courier).

MISC

• Consumers’ Choice patients caught up in hospital, insurance company negotiations (Post & Courier).
• Hunger and homelessness among single people increase in Charleston (Post & Courier).
• Black Lives Matter rally in North Charleston calls for changes to policing (ABC News 4).
• Report details horrid conditions of animals rescued in Charleston County (Post & Courier).
  • 2012 report shows accused animal hoarder previously gave up dozens of animals (ABC News 4).
  • Neighbor reacts (Live 5 News).
• Police: One dead after early morning shooting at N. Charleston hotel (Live 5 News).
• Developer creates carbon-neutral office building in Charleston (Post & Courier).
• Deputies: Greer man stabbed after assaulting woman, her husband (Live 5 News).
• Charleston County funding needed to hire St. Paul’s firefighters, official says (Post & Courier).
• Investigators: Man admitted to killing ex-girlfriend, dumping her body in creek (Live 5 News).
• World Trade Center Charleston graduates look for export markets (Post & Courier).
• Goose Creek police searching for woman after burglary caught on camera (Post & Courier).
• Police: Man on the lam since 1986 caught in Myrtle Beach (ABC News 4).
• Red Cross helping Goose Creek family after apartment fire (Post & Courier).
• Deal struck for airport sound buffer on Hilton Head Island (ABC News 4).
• ArborGen workers awarded $53.5M in compensation suit (Post & courier).

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