Новости за 01.05.2016

I don’t live anywhere close to the intersection of Main Road and Savannah Highway, but I have friends who do.

The April 8 article regarding County Council’s plans for raising additional money to complete I-526 has some council members complaining about being bullied by the State Department of Transportation and the Infrastructure Bank Board.

On Sept. 11, 2001, our oldest son, James J. Straine, Jr., who was just 36 at the time and had 3-year-old and 5-day-old sons, was killed when radical Islamic terrorists slammed their plane into the World Trade Center where Jimmy worked for Cantor Fitzgerald.

It’s Friday, and my car won’t start — transmission needs work. It goes to the shop. No loaner, so it will be a no-car weekend or a $100-plus rental on top of the cost of the repair.

SALT LAKE CITY — Actor Ryan Reynolds is showing his support for a Salt Lake City movie theater cited under a Utah obscenity law for serving drinks during a screening of his movie "Deadpool."

NEW YORK — When actress and playwright Claudia Shear was first approached to turn a novel for young adults into a Broadway musical, she was slightly stunned.

Jude is my retriever whose "golden" characteristics went askew.

NEW YORK — A monumental painting by Georgia O’Keeffe that can be viewed horizontally or vertically is coming to auction and it could bring up to $12 million.

NEW YORK — When Jesse Tyler Ferguson last starred on Broadway, he had to spell. This time around, it’s more about counting.

LONDON — It’s so long to Big Ben’s bongs, at least temporarily.

INDIANAPOLIS — There’s a lot going on in Indianapolis this spring, between the presidential primary and the Indy 500.

On a recent business trip to New York, Kelly Buck went small for her hotel room — as in 100 square feet.

"The Mayor: Joe Riley and the Rise of Charleston" by Post and Courier writer Brian Hicks has won a 2016 silver Independent Publisher Book Award in the category of biography.

THE DOGS OF LITTLEFIELD. By Suzanne Berne. Simon & Schuster. 273 pages. $25.

THE NEW TSAR: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin. By Steven Lee Myers. Knopf. 592 pages. $32.50.

NEW YORK — Phylicia Rashad was hoping for Medea. Instead, she found Shelah.

Believe it or not, Jason Bateman, at 47, has been on our screens for 35 years.

In this era of #OscarsSoWhite, the Tonys are looking pretty good. On Tuesday morning, this year’s Tony Award nominees are to be announced, and it seems clear, based on the diversity of the Broadway season and the acclaim for its performers, that the slate will be far more diverse than the list of Oscar nominees put forward this year by the...

Piccolo Spoleto Festival, the annual city-sponsored event that coincides with Spoleto Festival USA and features local and regional talent, will offer a taste of what’s to come at 4 p.m. May 1 at Holy Spirit Catholic Church, 3871 Betsy Kerrison Parkway, Johns Island.

A winter trip to the "Isle of Enchantment," Puerto Rico, left me feeling sorry for many of my houseplants back home.

The Grandview is aptly named. A wealth of windows, complemented by tapered stone veneer columns and shingled walls, sparkles across the back three sections.

The transactions listed below include properties sold for $200,000 or more and recorded between March 28-April 1.

During the week, Stevie Woltz is a high school teacher in Virgilina, Va., a blue-collar spec on the map located on the Virginia-North Carolina border. But on weekends, the soft-spoken educator seamlessly morphs into his alter ego of Adam Page, one of the top young performers on the Ring of Honor roster.

In 2015, Lowcountry AIDS Services administered 39 HIV-positive tests — nearly twice as many positive tests as the group administered in 2014.

WASHINGTON — When the Federal Reserve chose not to raise its key interest rate last week, it nevertheless made clear that its next move will be another increase. That stance puts it at odds with other major central banks, which are doing the reverse — seeking to ease credit to spur lending.