Новости за 23.07.2016

Time is running out for a very tough decision by the International Olympic Committee. Should it ban the entire current Russian Summer Olympics team for the clear evidence of cheating by the Russian government and Russian athletes in the 2014 Winter Olympics at Sochi? Or should it let the Russians compete under close scrutiny for illegal...

Critics have often decried modern U.S. political conventions as so predictable that they are boring. This week’s Republican Convention in Cleveland broke that mold.

I don’t buy Sen. Tim Scott’s umbrage at being asked for his ID when entering the congressional office building. I am a retired senior naval officer who must produce picture ID to enter a military installation when my car bears a "base sticker" and again to purchase in a commissary or exchange. I must show picture ID to...

For decades my wife and I have enjoyed jogging around Colonial Lake, and we’ve always parked on Rutledge Avenue across the street from the home where I grew up.

There are many intersections that need new signals to move traffic better, but I just want to name two.

In the lead editorial on July 10 titled "The hard toll of easy gun access," The Post and Courier summed up: "Clearly, the national gun policy — turning a blind eye to gun violence — just isn’t working." The fault, according to the editorial, lies in "the bumper sticker philosophy of the...

I would like to point out several incorrect statements in a recent letter to the editor related to the Town of Awendaw’s plans to construct a park.

SCOTTSDALE, Arizona — The Western district of the Methodist church has elected an openly gay bishop despite the denomination’s ban on same-sex relationships.

Six years ago, Maura Horton, a housewife in Raleigh, North Carolina, received a call from her husband, Don, the assistant football coach at North Carolina State. He was on the road for a game and having so much trouble buttoning his shirt, he had to ask a player (Russell Wilson, now the quarterback of the Seattle Seahawks) for help.

‘Error! Error!" screamed readers over the three blunders I’d made in recent columns.

CULVER CITY, Calif. — After being the only woman in late-night TV during most of her seven-year run on "Chelsea Lately," Chelsea Handler was ready to talk about something new.

NEW YORK — Jon Stewart has taken on Donald Trump and the Republican National Convention in a riff that mirrored his signature segments on "The Daily Show."

Two years ago, it seemed almost impossible that Tracy Morgan would ever perform comedy again: on June 7, 2014, he was critically injured in a car crash when a tractor-trailer struck the back of a luxury van he was traveling in.

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AGUAYO, Feliciano Jr., 35, of Charleston, a store manager with Walgreens, died Wednesday. Arrangements by Stuhr’s West Ashley Chapel.

Welcome to a world without rules. (I want you to read this paragraph in your super-scary movie trailer voice.) Welcome to a world in which families are mowed down by illegal immigrants, in which cops die in the streets, in which Muslims rampage the innocents and threaten our very way of life, in which the fear of violent death lurks in...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The Charleston RiverDogs’ offense found some life in the third inning to rally back from a two-run deficit, but it was held in check...

MCCLELLANVILLE — Under the thick, wet blanket of 90-degree heat that defines most summer days here, 9-year-old Olivia Thornton was eager for her favorite part of day camp: swimming lessons.

Charleston police arrested 25-year-old Lucas Ward Friday afternoon in connection with the fatal June 30 shooting of a man on Flood Street.

The top three spots remain unchanged in the Edisto Invitational Billfish Tournament with only nine of the 27 participating boats electing to use Friday as one of their two allotted fishing days for the final event in the 2016 South Carolina Governor’s Cup Billfishing Series.

Music therapist Bridget Sova has a special way to create a memento for her patients' families and loved ones - by producing songs from the heartbeats of her patients.

Associated Press

First came the rattle of gunfire, then the panicked screams and the wail of sirens as armed attackers launched their killing spree in the German city of Munich on Friday.

US President Barack Obama on Friday pledged support to Germany in the wake of a deadly shooting rampage in Munich, as officials said they were working to determine if any US citizens were affected.

Munich police said Saturday that the shooter in a deadly shopping mall rampage was an 18-year-old German-Iranian man whose motive was "completely unclear".