Rumors & Notes: 2/19 – 2/20/14

TOP STORIES

• Stratford football coach Ray Stackley announces retirement (Live 5 News).
• Murder-for-hire trial of Chris Latham enters 6th day (News 2).
  • Records outline computer, cell activity week before hit package found (ABC News 4).
  • Alleged co-conspirator’s cellmate testifies in murder-for-hire case (ABC News 4).
• Local doctor helps Haitian woman walk again (Live 5 News).

WAIT…WHAT?

• SC Lawmaker: St. Peter Is Gay (FITSNews).

STRING OF VIOLENT ATTACKS

• Man stabbed by waiting attacker behind North Charleston store, police say (Post & Courier).
• Man tells police he was shot at while driving on I-26 (ABC News 4).
• Deputies: Suspects fired shots into home over alleged ‘snitching’ (Live 5 News).
• Local doctor, 66, hospitalized after she was robbed in downtown Charleston (Post & Courier).
• Report: Gun-wielding suspect kicked in victim’s door, arrested (Live 5 News).
• Dog recovering after front legs riddled with shotgun pellets (Live 5 News).
  • Charleston Animal Society offers $1,000 reward in case of puppy with gunshot wounds (Post & Courier).

FOOD

• Brewvival is only part of the fun, check out our event picks (Post & Courier).
• Beer is big biz in North Charleston (ABC News 4).
• Keeler, Johnson and Bacon Named James Beard Semi-Finalists (Post & Courier).
• Ted’s Butcherblock is now serving breakfast (Twitter).
• Drinking “Grand Ma,” aka Grand Marnier, is a Charleston thing (Post & Courier).
• Farmers Market Accepting Vendor Applications for Upcoming Season (Post & Courier).
• Arthur Lucas is a man on an organic mission (Charleston City Paper).
• The latest science emerging from the agricultural laboratories in Charleston (Post & Courier).
• Lambs N Clams chefs announced for Wine + Food after-party (Post & Courier).
• C of C math professor Martin Jones is a protein-packing vegan (Post & Courier).
• Home brewing is back, but it is blending culinary arts, chemistry and engineering (Post & Courier).
• Bangin’ Billiard Bars (Yelp Charleston).

CofC/MUSC MERGER TALK

• Demystifying the “Charleston University Act” (Cistern Yard).
• College of Charleston students pose questions about merger with MUSC, take no official position yet (Post & Courier).

• CofC Faculty Senate unanimously opposes merger (Charleston City Paper).

  • MUSC student government too (Charleston City Paper).

SEX, DRUGS and ROCK & ROLL

• South Carolina in top five states for a very NSFW statistic, but it’s a good one (The Digitel).

• S.C. Republican senator introduces medical cannabis bill (Charleston City Paper).

• Former CCU and American Idol alum belts out dynamic debut (Weekly Surge).
• Big Gigantic wants to soundtrack your life from sunset to sunrise (Charleston City Paper).
• An Interview with Charleston’s Heavy Metal Band, Marytre (Cistern Yard).

• Live Music: Eli Young Band, Death on Two Wheels, Drag the River, Mayer Hawthorne (Charleston City Paper).

POLITICS

• Watchdog questions S.C. chief justice’s ties to Bobby Harrell (Charleston City Paper).

• Patrick fallout involves FBI, Secret Service, CIA (The Island Packet).
• Haley: Unionized companies not welcome in SC (The State).
• Upstate Republican wants to punish CofC for urging students to read award-winning book (Charleston City Paper).
  • USC Upstate too (ABC News 4).
  • College of Charleston responds to ‘Fun Home’ book controversy (Post & Courier).
• A look at the proposed compromise on ethics reform (The State).
• S.C. Senate tentatively passes ethics reform (Post & Courier).
  
• Gov. Haley suspends Williamsburg County sheriff after wire fraud indictment (News 2).
• Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor gets warm reception in Charleston (Post & Courier).
• Stegelin: Gun nuts and beer nuts (Charleston City Paper).
• End lawmakers’ excessive influence on Aviation Authority (Post & Courier).

MISC

• Charleston County high-poverty middle schools fighting against late start, dismissal times (Post & Courier).
• $30M project used to renourish Folly Beach while educating high schoolers (Live 5 News).
• City plans for Citadel Mall renovation (Live 5 News).
• Ring Around Charleston schedule (Charleston Mag).
• Charleston-based Fantasy cruise ship to get new pollution scrubbers, port says (Post & Courier).
• Report: Fewer SC farms, more land in production (Live 5 News).
• Charleston County OKs $2.5 million for Angel Oak park (Post & Courier).
• Berkeley Electric Cooperative asks customers to report hazards (News 2).
• Park Circle stays the course with disc golf (ABC News 4).
• Coroner: Man doing yard work, killed after tree limb falls on him (Live 5 News).

• U.S. flag flies upside down outside S.C. agency (WYFF).

• Mount Pleasant police looking for peeping tom (Live 5 News).
• Police say suspect was buying cocaine on Charleston’s East Side (Post & Courier).
• Esurance planning SC expansion, 450 jobs (ABC News 4).
• North Charleston on board with plan to fill wetlands, expand Centre Pointe (Post & Courier).
• Mother of 18-year-old murdered on his birthday plans to walk in protest (Live 5 News).
• Billion-dollar Boeing supplier didn’t consider Charleston region (Post & Courier).
• How food stamp recipients are cheating taxpayers (Live 5 News).
• Florida man sentenced for selling juvenile turtles in Hilton Head (ABC News 4).
• Woman impacts community through ministry, work with Charleston County schools (Post & Courier).
• Sally Atwater files to run for SC superintendent (ABC News 4).
• Laura Ball plays with tradition in her UNED!TED series (Charleston City Paper).
• Honor Flight movie to be shown February 20 & 25 (News 2).
• Jury finds man guilty of murder, attempted murder (ABC News 4).
• Investigators: Accused middle school teacher exhibited ‘classic predator behavior’ (Live 5 News).
• Six people arrested on drug charges in Beaufort County (ABC News 4).
• FAA investigates emergency landing at MYR (Live 5 News).
• Report: Tobacco use declining in South Carolina (ABC News 4).

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