Rumors & Notes: 2/5/16

TOP STORIES

• Tent City to be shut down, homeless offered beds at One80 Place (ABC News 4).
  • Charleston leaders announce 10-point plan (Live 5 News).
• Man fatally shot in West Ashley (Post & Courier).
• Charleston church shooting survivors share memories, journey to forgiveness (Live 5 News).
• Morris Sokol Furniture building sells for $22.5 million (Post & Courier).
• Charleston teen out on bail in robbery case arrested after downtown shooting (Post & Courier).
• Attorneys for would-be tour guides file injunction to stop city’s test practice (ABC News 4).
• Bill Would Limit SC Police Withholding Dashcam Videos (News 2).
• Weekend Events, Parties, & Plans (HCS).
  • Charleston’s Super Bowl 50 Parties (HCS).

FOOD/BEV

• 5Church, a new restaurant from Charlotte, presses pedal on some dishes a little too hard (Post & Courier).
• Alton Brown Launches ‘Eat Your Science’ Tour in Charleston (Eater Charleston).
• Ryan’s restaurant in West Ashley closes down for good (News 2).
• Fleet Fest Returns to Fleet Landing on 2/21 (HCS).
• CARTA adjusts schedule for restaurant workers (Post & Courier).
• Luke’s Craft Pizza Takes Over Ashley Avenue Address (Eater Charleston).
• Explore the Handsome Renovations at Charleston Favorite FIG (Eater Charleston).
• Sleeper burger at Burwell’s (Post & Courier).
• Stereo 8 Names Tias Gerke as Executive Chef (Eater Charleston).

ENTERTAINMENT/SPORTS

• 2nd Annual Brew HaHa Festival will be Tapped on 6/18 (HCS).
• Groundhog Day Concert performers reveal the shows they’d relive if they could (Charleston City Paper).
• Panthers assistant enjoys return to Super Bowl for first time since being a Citadel cadet (ABC News 4).
• Sold-out showdown: No. 1 UConn vs. No. 2 USC to draw a full house of 18,000 in Columbia (Post & Courier).
• RiverDogs Take on Pelicans in Exhibition in First Installment of Highway 17 Showdown (Charleston RiverDogs).
• PHOTO REVIEW: Colin Hay at the Music Hall (Charleston City Paper).
• St. Paddy’s Pawlooza Returns to Wannamaker County Park (HCS).
• Broken jaw doesn’t change the way Stingrays’ Patrick Gaul plays (Post & Courier).
• Touchdown with the Rusty Rudder this Super Sunday (HCS).
• Yonder Mountain String Band’s Adam Aijala was a metal head, but then he discovered weed (Charleston City Paper).
• The FollyGras Parade & Festival is Tomorrow (HCS).
• Thanks to residencies, artists have the freedom to follow their muse (Charleston City Paper).
• African American Heritage Festival cancelled (ABC News 4).
• The 13th Taking Flight Comic Book Show is Tomorrow (HCS).

POLITICS/GOV

• Officials: Summerville police wrong in withholding public information on sex crimes (Post & Courier).
• Plastic bag ban sought for Charleston; House bill would deny new bans (Post & Courier).
• North Charleston, Mount Pleasant police setting up safe zones for online purchases (ABC News 4).
• Quintin’s Close-ups: Kaye Koonce (HCS).
• Four properties along Shem Creek to be claimed by Mount Pleasant (ABC News 4).
• Chelsea Clinton campaigning for her mother in South Carolina (Post & Courier).

MISC

• Harper Collins publishing book by local authors about Emanuel AME history (ABC News 4).
• Local man collects water, fills a truck for Flint (ABC News 4).
• S.C. Aquarium’s sea turtle hospital inspires (Post & Courier).
• Holy City Sinner Rides with CARTA (Storify).
• ‘It’s been 1003 days,’ says woman’s son after finding out case reclassified as a homicide (ABC News 4).
• Police: 8 arrested in N. Charleston prostitution sting (Live 5 News).
• Sheriff: `Likely more victims` of teen arrested for sex assault of girl, 13, boy, 12 (Live 5 News).
• Moped driver arrested after low-speed pursuit in Goose Creek (ABC News 4).
• Deputies: Lieber security guard arrested for assaulting co-worker (Live 5 News).
• MUSC student’s project helps young patients see better (ABC News 4).
• Quintin’s Close-ups: Dr. Kylon Middleton (HCS).
• Hundreds of pieces of chicken spilled in wreck in Jasper Co. (Live 5 News).
• Authorities say man died playing Russian roulette (ABC News 4).

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