North Charleston News

Helping Out highlights some of the many charitable events and activities going on in the Charleston area.

Joseph Bussman spent five months in jail for a gas station holdup but was later cleared of the charges.

Macabre-leaning Becca Barnet has been featured for her taxidermy art on indie, German interview blog Freunde Von Freunden, or in English Friends of Friends.

With volumes continuing to climb, the South Carolina Ports Authority Board of Directors today approved its fiscal year 2014 financial plan, which includes volume increases across business segments and $123 million in capital spending on a number of strategic projects.

A by-the-numbers look at the South Carolina State Ports Authority's spending plan for the fiscal year that begins on July 1. - $25 million: Amount to be spent on two new cranes for the North Charleston terminal to handle supersized container ships -13 percent: Increase in volume expected in fiscal 2014 at Georgetown, S.C. which handles bulk cement ... (more)

Officials remove a body from 4674 Thoroughbred Drive in North Charleston where police are investigating a possible murder-suicide.

Lavar Clinton, 20 of English Street, is charged with attempted murder and possession of a firearm during the commission of a violent crime in connection with a shooting that happened on Burton Lane on May 11. Clinton surrendered to officers on June 17, police said.

Shortly after 8:30 this morning, officers responded to a home in the 4600 block in reference to a domestic disturbance between a male and female, police spokesman Spencer Pryor said.

A national study done by the ACLU on racially lopsided marijuana arrests has lit a fire under the Charleston chapter of the NAACP.

The board meets in Charleston on Tuesday and is expected to adopt its budget for the fiscal year that begins on July 1. During the year, the authority's new inland port in Greer will be opening.

Three Charleston County schools made enough improvement to come off the list of the state's lowest-performing schools, but five county schools remain on that list.

Hot Properties highlights recently sold or leased commercial properties in the Charleston region.

A British Airways Airbus A380, right, takes off in front of an Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner during the first day of the 50th Paris Air Show.

Miss South Carolina Megan Pickney walks the runway during the introductions of the Miss USA 2013 pageant on Sunday in Las Vegas.

It's already been a big year for CARTA, and a new North Charleston Area Shuttle loop is just one of the notable additions to local transit, but it's the route's brand new hybrid buses who are the stars of the show.

North Charleston, SC June 17, 2013:- On June 16, 2013 at approximately 7:45 p.m. a Charleston County Sheriff's Deputy attempted to initiate a traffic stop on a motorcycle at the intersection of JC Long Blvd and Ocean Blvd on the Isle of Palms.

One grandparent said she had to go to three graduations in one day and then one the next day at 8:30 a.m. I went to one myself for my nephew.

Two North Charleston men were arrested Sunday after a man told Charleston police he was robbed at gunpoint on Queen Street early Friday morning.

Joel Dean with US Framing cuts fiberglass columns for the Abberly Crossing Apartments that are under construction off Patriot Boulevard in North Charleston Friday.

Science teacher Tom Powell plans to hang a poster-sized photo from this year's graduation on the wall of his classroom at Summerville High School.