Ravenel News

Converse Chellis, one of South Carolina's most left-leaning, free-spending "Republican" politicians, will face a GOP primary opponent in 2010, FITS has learned.

The Charleston County School District's administrative headquarters at 75 Calhoun St.

Workers set up holiday displays in JCPenney last week and immediately marked most Christmas items down 50 percent.

Feline Freedom Coalition members linked nearly 5,000 neon bands and staked them in the grassy lawn in front of the Mount Pleasant Visitor Center on Friday to draw attention to the feral cats lurking outside area grocery stores and trash bins.

The 2009 Boone Hall Corn Maze that opens to the public this coming Thursday, covers the whole state of South Carolina.

Curtis Inabinett, Jr., Member of Council in the Town of Ravenel conceived the idea of having a Music Festival in the St.

Police say they are on the lookout for two men who invaded a home and lead authorities on a car chase in Ravenel.

In an interview on a Columbia radio station last week, Gov. Mark Sanford said he wouldn't be a drag on the Republican gubernatorial ticket in 2010, despite the controversy of his Argentinian affair and an investigation into his travel records.

The F.B.I. talks terrorism in the lowcountry today. Lowcountry republicans held a 9/11 remembrance meeting and hosted a panel talk about terrorism from local F.B.I officials.

Does Gov. Mark Sanford remember the first time he spoke to the Greenville County GOP? The three straws story was told.

Police in Ravenel are searching for a bank robbery suspect. It happened Friday morning just before 11am at the Bank of Walterboro.

RAVENEL a ' Charleston County Sheriffa TMs deputies are looking for a man who robbed a Savannah Highway bank this morning.

The South Carolina National Heritage Corridor is offering interpretive training for workers at tourism sites in the 17-county corridor which runs across the state.

A filmmaker who focused his lens on the state's rural schools in ``Corridor of Shame'' will now film South Carolina's ``State of Denial.'' Bud Ferillo is announcing plans for the new documentary today.

The South Carolina National Heritage Corridor is offering interpretive training for workers at tourism sites in the 17-county corridor which runs across the state.

In the great Southern tradition of storytelling, the city of Charleston, S.C., is the principal "character'' in Pat Conroy's new novel, "South of Broad.'' Like the Southern Gothic masters, William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor, Conroy understands that a compelling sense of place will lend grace to his narrative, inhabiting the minds of his readers ...

MOUNT PLEASANT a ' Charleston County parks officials have reversed a bicycle ban that applied to the new Memorial Waterfront Park pier.

The Rural Mission, based in Charleston, has been an organization of faith and goodwill from its beginnings forty years ago.

Prosecutors and police are hailing a 35-year prison sentence that a Lowcountry man received for trying to carjack and shoot a man outside a North Charleston restaurant in December 2007.

Mary Loretto Croghan Ramsay, one of Charlestona s most influential residents who was known as a strong advocate for the mentally handicapped and a staunch supporter of Spoleto Festival U.S.A, died today.