Rumors & Notes: 1/21/14

TOP STORIES

• Strong winds call for caution on bridges, securing outside objects, weather service says (Post & Courier).
• Power restored to customers after barge makes contact with power line (Live 5 News).
• Fire breaks out at West Ashley apartment complex (News 2).
  • Investigators: Fire started on 2nd floor balcony (ABC News 4).
• George Stinney hearing begins in Sumter (News 2).
  • 14-year-old was executed in 1944.

  • A modern understanding of a long ago confession and a boy’s execution (Public Integrity, Dec. 2013).

  • Prosecutor: New trial not needed for executed boy (ABC News 4).
• Sting catches rickshaw driver giving illegal tour (Post & Courier).

  • To be a guide, or not to be a guide… (See Charleston).

• DHEC: Stratford High School TB test results show no infection so far (Live 5 News).

FOOD

• Biergarten Co-Owner’s Response to ‘Haters’ (Eater Charleston).
• Xiao Bao Biscuit Goes Sichuanese For Chinese New Year (Post & Courier).
• New Menu Details From Holy City Hospitality’s Michael’s on the Alley (Post & Courier).
• Hat Trick Botanical Gin (The Gin Is In).
• Crafty Draught’s Grand Opening This Saturday (Charleston Craft Beer).
• King Street Cookies Stays Open Later (Post & Courier).

CofC PRESIDENT SEARCH

• College of Charleston begins narrowing presidential search (Charleston City Paper).

  • College of Charleston president to be named in March (Charleston Regional Business Journal).
  • Glenn McConnell criticized at King Day at the Dome rally (The State).

MISC

• Charleston police looking for person of interest (ABC News 4).
• Cops: Man claiming to be shooting victim admits he accidentally shot himself (Live 5 News).
• Charleston police release photos of suspect in downtown car break-in (Post & Courier).
• American Lafrance abrupt closing calls Warn Act into question (News 2).
• Come on down! Mt. Pleasant woman to appear on The Price is Right (Live 5 News).

• Hotel Scam Alert (Mount Pleasant Police Department).

• Elevated homes could be more vulnerable to freezing pipes (Live 5 News).

• Charleston food & bev industry targeted with opposition to guns in bars bill (Charleston City Paper).

• What’s Happening in Charleston: Culinary Events This Winter (The Daily Meal).

• Parking Alert Issued for Saturday at the North Charleston Coliseum and Performing Arts Center. Attendees are Encouraged to Carpool and Arrive Early.
• Thieves steal $2M after planting devices on gas pumps in SC, Ga. (Live 5 News).
• Two Moultrie Middle eighth-graders travel to nation’s capital to interview living civil rights legend (Post & Courier).
• Charleston With Kids has launched a Community Exchange program (CWK).
• Bill raises teachers’ salaries to national average (ABC News 4).
• Furniture consignment shop opens in downtown Charleston (Charleston Regional Business Journal).
• The (un)real world of SC-based reality TV shows (The State).
• Ship shape: Patriots Point hires firm to assess Yorktown repairs (Post & Courier).
  • Weekend event pays off for Patriots Point (Charleston Regional Business Journal).
  • Patriots Point: No plane coming Friday (ABC News 4).
• What Your State Wants, According to Google Autocomplete (Mashable).
• Gamecocks coach Frank Martin apologizes for tirade (ABC News 4).
• Clemson working on transition plan in wake of Kelly’s pending departure (Post & Courier).
• Sapakoff: ‘Lone Survivor’ lessons touch Wojcik, College of Charleston players (Post & Courier).
• Sheriff’s office: 11-year-old trapped in Upstate well (Live 5 News).
• State of the City: Mayor Benjamin wants to build ‘city of ideas’ (The State).

• Police records discuss phone calls between Heather Elvis, older man as late as 6 a.m. December 18 (My Horry News).

• Weather and Jetties a big cause of erosion on Folly Beach (News 2).
• Dog saves Florence County couple from major house fire (WBTW).
• Bill delays some flood insurance rate hikes (Charleston Regional Business Journal).

• SC Tea Party Coalition rallies for changes at convention (SCNOW.com).

• Police: 13 & 16 year old boys arrested for armed robbery, larceny (Live 5 News).
• McNair Center continues astronaut’s legacy (Charleston Regional Business Journal).
• Former chief’s final wish to lure Andrews chief back to Lake City (ABC News 4).
• Restructuring bill heading to governor’s desk (ABC News 4).
• Adoption information fair set for Feb. 1 in North Charleston (Post & Courier).
• House members critical of DOT’s maintenance work (ABC News 4).
• One person transported to the hospital following Colleton Co. fire (Live 5 News).
• Govt. accuses military moving company of fraud (Post & Courier).

• Will Moredock campaigns to topple ‘Pitchfork’ Ben Tillman statue at the Statehouse (Charleston City Paper).

• Report: SC man wielding machete attacked woman (The State).

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