NEW YORK (AP) — Former movie mogul Harvey Weinstein was convicted Wednesday of one of the top charges in his sex crimes retrial but acquitted of another, and jurors were as yet unable to reach a verdict on a third charge. The split verdict meted out a measure of vindication to his accusers and prosecutors — but also to […]
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CHARLESTON COUNTY, S.C. (WCBD) – An off-duty master deputy and school resource officer stopped a robbery suspect while shopping at Northwoods Mall on Tuesday. Charleston County Sheriff Deputy Alexander McKinnon was shopping at the mall when a man walked into the nearby Great American Jewelry and asked the clerk to see some items, the sheriff’s […]
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – The North Charleston Police Department released video Wednesday of a low-speed pursuit involving an excavator. Officers were responding to another call around 3 a.m. when they noticed a Komatsu excavator crossing over US 78 heading toward the Los Tienda Mexicana, which is a Hispanic grocery market. In their report, the […]
MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (WCBD) – A pedestrian was injured after being struck by a vehicle in Mount Pleasant on Wednesday afternoon. Officers with the Mount Pleasant Police Department responded to a crash at the intersection of Market Center Blvd. and Mazzy Lane. Market Center Blvd. was closed from Highway 17 to the traffic center in […]
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – At least two people were injured in connection with a Tuesday night shooting at a Rivers Avenue club. Officers with the North Charleston Police Department initially responded to the Sunoco at the corner of Rivers Ave. and Remount Rd. for an injured victim. It was determined that the female victim […]
Lawyers for a South Carolina death row inmate will be in federal court Wednesday trying to convince a judge that the state is not properly carrying out lethal injections or firing squad executions, an argument meant to spare the prisoner just two days before he’s scheduled to die. Stephen Stanko’s attorneys said the two doses of lethal […]
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – Roper St. Francis Healthcare is breaking ground on its future North Charleston hospital campus. The $1.2 billion project will be the size of 20 football fields once completed. Officials said the new campus will be the fourth location for Roper Hospital since it opened in downtown Charleston in 1856. It […]
SULLIVAN’S ISLAND, S.C. (WCBD) – The Town of Sullivan’s Island Planning Commission will meet Wednesday to discuss erosion control structures in certain districts. They are considering updating the town’s regulations for the creation and maintenance of erosion control measures and how they impact the single-family residential district, and recreation and conservation area districts. According to […]
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) — Nearly a decade after the tragic shooting at Mother Emanuel, Charleston is coming together to reflect and to see how the Lowcountry has learned 10 years later. On June 17th in 2015, a gunman, motivated by white supremacist views, shot and killed nine people during bible study at a historically black […]
MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (WBCD) – The Southern Shrimp Alliance revealed, in a new study with SeaD Consulting, a majority of Charleston-area restaurants that claim to serve local shrimp are not actually doing so. SeaD Consulting randomly selected 44 restaurants throughout the region, in an attempt to bring transparency and awareness to the Lowcountry. Each of […]
