New engineering graduate degrees will help shape local future
BY ANITA ZUCKER
BY ANITA ZUCKER
BY LEONID BERSHIDSKY
Oh, they’ve made exceptions. The men in charge of approving coveted plots at Arlington National Cemetery have made hundreds of exceptions to the strict military rules about who gets buried there. A chief White House usher was an exception. As were a doctor who developed an oral vaccine against polio, an ambassador and a national...
What might seem like the municipal equivalent of inside baseball going before the city of Charleston’s Planning Commission today really isn’t.
BARRETT, Lee, Summerville
BROWDER, Lois Moorer, 80, of Charleston, wife of Archibald B. Browder, died Tuesday. Arrangements by Stuhr’s Downtown Chapel.
When the October floods deluged rivers in the state, emergency managers downstream wanted to know one thing: what’s coming at us. Too often for any comfort, river monitors couldn’t tell them, even though the rate of rising water could have been texted to them in real time — if there had been more river gauges upstream.
A new computer model of flooding will be able to show just how storm and tidal floods swamp individual properties, storm drains and sewer lines — and how it worsens as properties develop. The idea is to get people, businesses and governments to plan for it.
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Asian shares were mostly lower on Wednesday while the dollar dithered as markets waited anxiously for the Federal Reserve to provide guidance on the risk of U.S. rate hikes this year.
NEW YORK, March 16 (Reuters) - Last October, as U.S. oil prices seemed to be stabilizing around $45 a barrel, some bullish traders chuckled at the notion of U.S. shale firms racing to hedge production at what they thought was the bottom of a 19-month rout.
NEW YORK, March 16 (Reuters) - Last October, as U.S. oil prices seemed to be stabilizing around $45 a barrel, some bullish traders chuckled at the notion of U.S. shale firms racing to hedge production at what they thought was the bottom of a 19-month rout.
BEIJING (Reuters) - The relationship between China and Japan has improved but still remains fragile, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang told a news conference on Wednesday at the end of the annual meeting of parliament.
ATLANTA — South Carolina gets to keep The Associated Press Southeastern Conference player of the year award.
SHANGHAI, March 16 (Reuters) - China stocks edged higher on Wednesday as the country's annual meeting of parliament ended much as it began, with a stream of assurances by Premier Li Keqiang that the economy was facing difficulties but not in danger of a hard landing.
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea's supreme court sentenced American student Otto Warmbier, who was arrested while visiting the country, to 15 years of hard labour for crimes against the state, China's Xinhua news agency reported on Wednesday.
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea's supreme court sentenced American student Otto Warmbier, who was arrested while visiting the country, to 15 years of hard labour for crimes against the state, China's Xinhua news agency reported on Wednesday.
Clemson’s Seth Beer, who opted not to become the next Michael Phelps and is supposed to be in high school, made baseball fans come to Riley Park early Tuesday night. A freshman already taking aim at Clemson power records put on a show in batting practice.
(Reuters) - Saudi Arabian clubs will play Champions League matches against Iranian teams at neutral venues this year because of the lack of improvement in relations between the two countries, the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) said on Wednesday.
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Two executives at a fire-fighting system supplier have been charged with negligence after an accident in which eight people were killed at the headquarters of Siam Commercial Bank, Thai police said on Wednesday.
* RBNZ says banking system can withstand severe dairy downturn (Recasts, adds detail about dairy sector, analyst comment, background)
BEIJING (Reuters) - China-U.S. relations will continue to develop regardless of who wins the U.S. presidential election in November, China's Premier Li Keqiang said on Wednesday.
BANGKOK, March 16 (Reuters) - Two executives at a fire-fighting system supplier have been charged with negligence after an accident in which eight people were killed at the headquarters of Siam Commercial Bank, Thai police said on Wednesday.
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's escalating political turmoil is dragging the economy through the mire, as the government looks unable to implement much-needed reforms to resuscitate activity, the head of the nation's biggest private-sector bank said late on Tuesday.
BEIJING (Reuters) - China has set up a tsunami alert centre in the South China Sea, the head of the country's maritime regulator said on Wednesday, in Beijing's latest effort to bolster its jurisdiction in the disputed waters.