Rumors & Notes: 12/24/14

Apparently, giraffes are BIG on Christmas…get it!?

TOP STORIES

• Victim hospitalized after early morning shooting (Live 5 News).
  • NCPD: Suspect shoots, robs man he paid for sex (ABC News 4).
• Local law enforcement more aware, vigilant after New York officer killings (Post & Courier).
  • Berkeley County Sheriff’s Office has at least 2 threats called in against deputies in recent months (News 2).
• Flooding shuts down several downtown Charleston streets (Live 5 News).
• Friends say accused murderer was often violent toward her boyfriend (ABC News 4).
• Terrace Theatre Will Show “The Interview” on Christmas Day (HCS).
• Charleston Christmas Events (HCS).

HOLIDAYS

• LISTEN – Charleston Co. Dispatch: ‘Vehicle described as red sleigh pulled by reindeer’ (Live 5 News).
• Santa Tracker! (NORAD).
• Disabled veteran and family get revamped home for the holidays (ABC News 4).
• Couple gives homeless veteran a place to stay, first Christmas in 10 years (Live 5 News).
• Service members usher in holiday season while in Liberia (ABC News 4).
• Braves pitcher, ex-CofC standout Michael Kohn plays Secret Santa (Post & Courier).
• Ministry, businesses to hold ‘Birthday Party for Jesus’ (Live 5 News).
• Xmas marks the not-so-safe spot (Post & Courier).
• Don’t drop the ball, book reservations for New Year’s Eve now (Charleston City Paper).
• SC Peanut Board Donates Special Gift This Holiday Season (SCDA).
• Red Cross holds Christmas Eve Blood Drive (Live 5 News).
• Without Walls group set to host Christmas at The Citadel (ABC News 4).
• West Ashley neighborhood calls off parade because of weather (Live 5 News).

FOOD/BEV

• Charleston Chefs Battle For the Win on Food Network’s ‘Chopped’ (Eater Charleston).
• Oyster Roast Benefiting The Green Heart Project Scheduled for 1/31/15 (HCS).
• Seattle-based pizza franchise to open in Charleston (Post & Courier).
• The Carrots Were Hung By the Embers With Care, In Hopes That McCrady’s Patrons Soon Would Be There (Eater Charleston).
• SOL adds new menu items (Post & Courier).
• Where Can You Go to Escape the Family on Christmas? (Eater Charleston).
• Dinner to recreate an unprecedented 1865 banquet in Charleston when blacks, whites came together (Post & Courier).
• 3rd Annual Cork Shuckin’ Festival Set for February 7th (HCS).
• Chow Mein Inn capitalized on Charleston’s chop suey craze in the ’30s and ’40s (Post & Courier).

ENTERTAINMENT/SPORTS

• These artsy activities will keep you busy through the down week (Charleston City Paper).
• Junior receiver Roland leaves South Carolina (News 2).
• Groundhog Day Benefit Concert Returns to the Music Hall (HCS).
• The Charleston Performing Arts Center prepares students for the Great White Way (Charleston City Paper).
• CofC Athletics Mourns The Loss Of Chad Cooke (CofC Sports).
• Northwood girls and boys take Porter-Gaud basketball championships (Post & Courier).
• G. Love & Special Sauce Return to the Music Farm this March (HCS).

MISC

• SC mom who drove kids into ocean to be involuntarily committed (Live 5 News).
• Local doctors see uptick in flu mutations (ABC News 4).
• At least 6 dead in 2 counties after 3 weather-related crashes (Post & Courier).
• Machinists union, Boeing wage holiday ad war (Charleston Regional Business Journal).
• Coroner identifies two motorists killed in Berkeley Co. accident (Live 5 News).
• Armed robbery at the Scotchman under investigation (News 2).
• Website names SC state flag America’s best (Live 5 News).
• Crews contain gas leak on Reddin Road in North Charleston (Live 5 News).
• Officials: All three boaters rescued in search off McClellanville (Live 5 News).
• SC’s Healing Springs still draw people who believe (ABC News 4).
• Apartment complex evacuated after gas leak in North Charleston (News 2).
• Blotter: Stink, Stank, Stunk (Charleston City Paper).
• Some cry foul at Charleston Water Service’s decision to loan its logo to private company (Charleston City Paper).
• Anderson Co. deputies seek ‘vehicle of interest’ following I-85 shooting (Live 5 News).
• Dad finds missing 11-year-old Conway boy at grandmother’s, police say (News 2).
• Judge says USC fraternity members must move (Post & Courier).

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