Rumors & Notes: 12/27/16

TOP STORIES

• Timeline set for Michael Slager’s federal trial (ABC News 4).
• Hearing scheduled Wednesday for Dylann Roof (News 2).
• Aiken County Sheriff’s Office refuses to release lawmaker arrest video (Post & Courier).
  • Confederate flag defender Chris Corley, facing domestic violence and gun charges, called for leaders with morals (Charleston City Paper).
• S.C. lawmakers look at arming public schools’ staff to deter shootings (Post & Courier).
• Officers respond to reports of shots fired at North Charleston shopping plaza (Live 5 News).
  • Police in North Charleston respond to 2nd shooting near Charleston Heights (ABC News 4).
• Kwanzaa celebrations being held in the Lowcountry (Live 5 News).
• Many police in South Carolina not enforcing texting-while-driving law (Post & Courier).

FOOD/BEV

• Where to find local greens for New Year’s (Post & Courier).
• Locals’ New Year’s Eve Pregame at Crooked Crown (HCS).
• ‘Uptempo and Unpretentious Environment’ Takes Over Two Boroughs Larder (Eater Charleston).
• From Torres Superettes to FIG: Standbys For 2016 (Eater Charleston).
• Truffles and Brisket Dulled the Pain of 2016 (Eater Charleston).

ENTERTAINMENT/SPORTS

• The Crabpot Players Return to Their Roots at The Windjammer (HCS).
• Tyler Boone Releases Music Video Filmed at Coastal Carolina Fair (HCS).
• FM Station The City hits the airwaves (Charleston City Paper).
• LISTEN: Hip-Hop artist Hippie Cocaine on his Christmas Day EP release (Charleston City Paper).

POLITICS/GOV/SCHOOLS

• Citadel band and pipes, Summerall Guards to participate in Trump inauguration (Post & Courier).
• Local attorney, former county councilman Curtis Bostic facing livestock theft charge (ABC News 4).
• State lawmaker files bill to create Poverty Elimination Bank (Charleston City Paper).
• Plantersville is crying, my Lord (Charleston City Paper).

MISC

• ‘You can’t just keep tearing things down’: 200-year-old East Side home spared (ABC News 4).
• Sites around South Carolina are recycling Christmas trees (ABC News 4).
• North Charleston Fire Department: Christmas Eve cat rescue ‘counts’ (ABC News 4).
• MUSC to open Apple Store-style computer center next year (Post & Courier).
• Man shot during altercation at Summerville gas station (Post & Courier).
• Hunting accident claims life of 11-year-old in Georgetown County (Live 5 News).
• Once sentenced to 39 years in cemetery killing, North Charleston man walks free after appeal (Post & Courier).
• Summerville hotel gets makeover, new flag (Post & Courier).
• Upstate man’s GoFundMe to “protect Betty White” goes viral (News 2).

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