Rumors & Notes: 5/7/14

TOP STORIES

• ‘Lift the Lowcountry’ campaign raises more than $2 million for local causes (Live 5 News).
• Lawyer: Woman who drove into ocean had disorder (Live 5 News).

• Deputies: Tragedy avoided by actions of school resource officer (Live 5 News).

  • 7th-grader took gun to school because of argument, officials say (Post & Courier).

FOOD/DRINKS

• 5 Southern Foods To Eat Now, According To Brooks Reitz (Southern Living).

• $5 off your Charleston Beer Garden ticket starts now (Charleston City Paper).

• Salami and Rillettes Take a Chocolate Turn at Fish (Post & Courier).
• Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams Has a Sign (Eater Charleston).
• Charleston’s Sean Brock doesn’t quite win top James Beard award (Charleston Regional Business Journal).
• Seafood Week at Bacco; Beer Dinner at Circa (Eater Charleston.

POLITICS

• Hearing date set in Robert Ford ethics case (Post & Courier).

• S.C. teachers’ union applauds pro-marijuana superintendent candidate’s ‘creativity’ (Charleston City Paper).

• Daily Show pokes fun at South Carolina’s Republican primary (Post & Courier).

• Long-serving U.S. congressman Butler Derrick dies (Charleston Regional Business Journal).
• SC Senate considers plan with education increases (ABC News 4).
• Charges dropped against SC Medicaid protesters (ABC News 4).

SPORTS

• Stingrays Donate Over $93,000, 200 Hours and More to Charleston Community During 2013-14 Season (SC Stingrays).
• Battery’s Cooper Named Player of the Week (USL Soccer).
• Physical activity among U.S. youth gets a D- in first-ever ‘report card’ (Post & Courier).
• Freshman leading women’s golf game at CofC (ABC News 4).

• South Carolina standout Jadeveon Clowney scheduled to appear on ‘The Tonight Show’ with Jimmy Fallon (Post & Courier).

• North Charleston program turning cops into coaches (Live 5 News).

• NFL Draft preview: Clemson wide receiver Sammy Watkins displays ‘passion to be great’ (Post & Courier).

SCHOOLS

• School postpones testing following student’s apparent drowning (Live 5 News).
• Charter school faces revocation hearing after going $160K in debt (ABC News 4).
• CofC students making history, first to graduate from REACH Program (Live 5 News).
• College of Charleston moving 750,000 books (Charleston Regional Business Journal).

• $400,000 in cuts proposed for Dorchester County’s 2015 budget (Post & Courier).

MISC

• Suspects sought after swapping real diamond rings with fakes (Live 5 News).
• CNT + CHS = XOX (Charlestonly).
• Police called to Wannamaker Park for alleged peeping tom (News 2).
• Poll: Alzheimer’s, dementia impacts 18 percent of families in South Carolina (Post & Courier).
• After the death of her dog, a local woman is pushing for change at doggie daycares (Change.org).
• Water main break on Bees Ferry Road could result in temporary water outage (Live 5 News).
• South Carolina couple who killed sex offender and wife get life terms, act out in court (Post & Courier).
• Man gets 23 years in 2011 shooting (Post & Courier).
• Charleston’s Star Pianist Micah McLaurin Returns Home (The Island Connection).
• Feds involved in investigation of 7-year-old’s accidental shooting (Live 5 News).
• Coroner IDs boy who drowned in Hollywood pond (ABC News 4).
• Couple married at Myrtle Beach area hospital after bride’s emergency surgery (News 2).
• Freeloaders: Hot in herre (Charleston City Paper).
• Fire destroys former Edisto Tackle Shop, damages home (Live 5 News).
• Benefitfocus revenue up 29% for Q1 (Charleston Regional Business Journal).

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