Rumors & Notes: 6/26/16

TOP STORIES

• Cocaine, pills … and textbooks: How a college drug ring hid in plain sight (Post & Courier).
• Search for missing inmates stalled until new leads point to their location (ABC News 4).
  • Deputies searching for vehicle stolen in area escaped inmates last seen (Live 5 News).
• High tides concerns prompt cancellation of Folly Beach July 4th fireworks (Live 5 News).
• Housing secured for last of Tent City residents (Post & Courier).
• Ports CEO say new system running smoother, but truckers say lost money needs to be repaid (ABC News 4).
• City plotting new ways to reinvigorate former Charleston Naval Base (Post & Courier).
• Jury selection process in the case of Dylann Roof remains undecided (Charleston City Paper).

FOOD/BEV

• Molly Darcy’s will close its doors on Sunday (Charleston City Paper).
• After a decade with Fish Restaurant, Chef Nico Romo moving on (Charleston City Paper).
• SLED crackdown forces beer festivals to rethink format (Post & Courier).
• Charleston pitmaster reflects on N.C. festival he founded (Post & Courier).

ENTERTAINMENT/SPORTS/ART

• Southern Charm Custody Case Won’t Be Sealed (FITS News).
• The Charleston Arts Festival Debuts in October (HCS).
• Coastal Carolina beats TCU to advance to the College World Series championship series (Post & Courier).
• Camp Happy Days Hosts Week Long Summer Camp for Kids Kickin’ Cancer (HCS).
• All American Independence Day Party Debuts at Brick House Kitchen (HCS).
• Charleston Native Returns to Host FYI’s “Waterfront House Hunting” (HCS).
• Miss South Carolina Pageant about more than beauty (ABC News 4).
• Learn About July’s “Happy Days” heART Show (HCS).
• Ohm Radio to Host Live Anniversary Show at the Music Hall (HCS).
• From Columbia celebrity to face of women’s basketball? Spotlight only shines brighter on USC’s A’ja Wilson (Post & Courier).
• Gavalas Kolanko Foundation Hosts Golf Tournament Fundraiser (HCS).

POLITICS/GOV/SCHOOLS

• Same-sex marriage ‘routine’ in South Carolina a year after U.S. Supreme Court decision (Post & Courier).
• School board routinely handles major business in last-minute ‘special’ meetings (Post & Courier).
• SC GOP is changing, says state’s first openly gay legislator (The State).
• DHEC confirms first sexually-transmitted Zika case in S.C. (Live 5 News).
• Charleston schools will feel the burn after $18 million in cuts (Post & Courier).
• Activists, parents of man killed want AG’s office to review Goose Creek double-murder case (ABC News 4).
• Officials work to prevent repeat of dueling hate rallies (ABC News 4).
• Charleston County asks residents and business owners to reduce recycling contamination  (Charleston County).
• Quintin’s Close-Ups: Tim Mallard (HCS).
• No ‘Southern Charm’ in ‘Days of Jasper’s Lives’ (Post & Courier).

MISC

• Moncks Corner native freed after serving time for killing Iraqis during raid (Post & Courier).
• Summer is the Perfect Time to Join the “I Will Reflect” Melanoma Initiative (HCS).
• Local company trying to help cyclists combat bike thefts in Charleston (ABC News 4).
• PeopleMatter acquired by Virginia tech firm (Charleston City Paper).
  • Charleston security firm finds a hint of PeopleMatter sale weeks before announcement (Post & Courier).
• Two people die after being struck by car near Hollywood; vehicle found (ABC News 4).
• North Charleston man jailed after police say he got 13-year-old pregnant (Post & Courier).
• SLED investigating officer-involved shooting in Pickens Co. (Live 5 News).
• Paid in full: Charleston hotel loan to be recycled (Post & Courier).
• 28-year-old man lying in road struck, killed in Berkeley County (News 2).
• Coroner: 1 killed after driver shoots ATV rider after crashing car, getting into argument (Live 5 News).

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