Rumors & Notes: 4/5/17

TOP STORIES

• Tornado watch extended; Charleston, Colleton, Dorchester under severe thunderstorm warning (ABC News 4).
  • Closings, cancellations, delays due to severe weather (News 2).
  • SCE&G offers safety tips for customers in preparation for severe thunderstorms (News 2).
• NAN to review James Johnson’s status as S.C. president following racially charged comments; Johnson not apologizing (Post & Courier).
  • Activist clarifies comments about people of Middle Eastern descent (News 2).
• FBI: SC Man wanted to fight for Islamic State, torture American (AP).
  • Ladson teen accused of trying to join ISIS pleads not guilty (ABC News 4).
• SPD: Couple arrested in Summerville murder case (ABC News 4).
• Suspects charged in reported rape at downtown Charleston party (Live 5 News).
• Two years after Walter Scott’s death, what has changed? (Charleston City Paper).
• Walterboro woman accused of kidnapping Kamiyah Mobley pleads not guilty (ABC News 4).
• Judge sets bond for man accused of setting girlfriend on fire (Live 5 News).

FOOD/BEV

• Farmers Market Season Has Returned to Charleston Area (HCS).
• St. Philip’s Tea Room is the best restaurant in Charleston (this week) [Post & Courier].
• Charleston incubator space for start-up restaurants to open by end of April (Post & Courier).
• Rudi’s Caffé e Vino now open on King Street (Charleston City Paper).
• Find consistently good Greek favorites at Stella’s restaurant (Post & Courier).
• Tiger Corner Farms produces full-scale, aeroponic crops in recycled shipping containers (Charleston City Paper).
• Hen and the Goat is now open (Post & Courier).
• Choose Your Own Adventure: Lowcountry farmers markets (Charleston City Paper).
• Craving Tacos (Charleston Living Magazine).
• Three farms. Three farmers. Three personalities. One goal: Make it work. (Charleston City Paper).
• Pier 41’s Southern/Asian fusion offers more than just a great happy hour (Charleston City Paper).

ENTERTAINMENT/SPORTS

• Southern Charm Fourth Season Premiere Draws 1.25 Million (FITS News).
  • Southern Charm Feud! Kathryn Dennis Dismisses ‘Pathetic’ Landon Clements: ‘I Call Her Land-a-Man-don’ (People).
  • Kathryn C. Dennis Has Undergone a “Metamorphosis” Since Going to Rehab (Bravo).
• Today’s cover girl, Corrie Wang, one of Amazon’s featured April YA authors (Charleston City Paper).
• Gay Bingo Returns This Summer (HCS).
• ‘We listened.’ Folly Beach’s Sea & Sand Festival to see tighter rules following FollyGras complaints (Post & Courier).
• This season, the RiverDogs feature all-inclusive club level seating, but it’ll cost ya (Charleston City Paper).
• Look: Sweet setup for Darius Rucker concert at USC (The State).
• Charleston punk rockers Hybrid Mutants celebrate 20 years (Charleston City Paper).
• RiverDogs and Pelicans Washed Out in Exhibition Opener (MiLB).
• Charleston’s Shelby Rogers upsets No. 1 seed Madison Keys at Volvo Car Open (Post & Courier).
  • Upsets dominate Wednesday at Volvo Car Open (Live 5 News).
• Freshfields at Kiawah hosts free Blues by the Sea event (Post & Courier).
• Chris Johnson’s Question Bridge brings divisions in African-American culture into focus (Charleston City Paper).
• Charles Towne Landing throws birthday party for South Carolina (Post & Courier).

POLITICS/GOV/SCHOOLS

• House passes ‘Constitutional carry’ bill allowing permitless carry of firearms (The State).
• Charleston tour guide lawsuit goes to court (ABC News 4).
• Mayor Tecklenburg proposes merging fire, police departments (ABC News 4).
• Nikki Haley condemns Russia, Iran after chemical attack in Syria: ‘They defied the conscience of the world’ (Post & Courier).
• Schools dismiss early for threats of severe weather (ABC News 4).
• Gaffney lawmaker questions truthfulness of South Carolina Ethics Commission nominee (Post & Courier).
• South Carolina lawmakers flunk proposal to grade schools on an A-to-F scale (Post & Courier).

MISC

• IAAM gets big boost, still needs 19 million (ABC News 4).
• Charleston Waterkeeper founder Cyrus Buffum has found a new role on the water (Charleston City Paper).
• Tip leads to Summerville man’s arrest for child pornography (ABC News 4).
• Police search for House of Sage shoplifting suspects (Live 5 News).
• Mount Pleasant teen arrested for Airsoft gun on bus after Snapchat post (ABC News 4).
• Lawsuit filed in Moncks Corner plane wreck (News 2).

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