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Monday, April 29, 2024
MONCKS CORNER, S.C.– The South Carolina State Department of Education released each district’s ACT assessments given to students throughout the state for the first time during Spring 2015. Results showed Berkeley County School District (BCSD) students outperformed students across the nation in each of the four subject areas tested on the ACT Aspire®: English, Reading, Writing and Math. Berkeley County […]
WCIV-TV | ABC News 4 – Charleston News, Sports, Weather BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C.–A Cane Bay High School art teacher is proving she’s one tough woman. Recently, police say Paige Duvall was assaulted in her own home by a 16-year-old boy. However, she says she fought him off by biting off his tongue. “I told my mom that I saw the worst in humanity and […]
BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C.–According to the Berkeley Co. Sheriff’s Office, a former nurse who worked at the Hill-Finklea Detention Center under contract from Southern Health Partners, a third-party vendor has been arrested. She’s been identified as 30-year-old Jewel Denice Baker of North Charleston. Investigators with the Berkeley County Sheriff’s Office and the Dorchester County Sheriff’s Office say they learned that Baker […]
Via Press Release: BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C.–About 600 employees at the Mt. Holly aluminum smelter in Goose Creek today received notices that Mt. Holly had been unable to reach agreement with Santee Cooper regarding transmission of energy to the smelter and, as a result, the plant will close at the end of 2015 unless Santee Cooper agrees to transmit the required […]
GOOSE CREEK, S.C.—If you’ve traveled along Highway 52 in Goose Creek lately, you’ve probably noticed the construction taking place where the old Japanese restaurant, Tenichi Steak House, once stood. In late September, the building was knocked down to make way for the area’s first stand alone Dairy Queen. To say people are excited about it is an understatement, according to […]
MONCKS CORNER, S.C.–The Town of Moncks Corner is officially looking for a new police chief. Town officials made the job opening public on Tuesday. Moncks Corner Police Chief Chad Caldwell says he will retire after spending 40 years in law enforcement. His last day on the job will be December 31st. He told WCBD-TV that changes in his benefits mandated by […]
Gov. Nikki Haley and the S.C. Department of Employment and Workforce (DEW) recently announced that Berkeley County is eligible to receive Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA) after FEMA approved the county for individual assistance. This brings the total number of counties eligible to 22. The DUA program makes funds available to assist people who became unemployed as a direct result of the torrential […]
DANIEL ISLAND, S.C. — The Daniel Island Club’s Director of Golf Instruction has been named the top golf instructor in South Carolina by industry peers. Ron Cerrudo, who has served as the Daniel Island Club’s Director of Golf Instruction for 13 years, was ranked number one among the top twelve instructors in the state. The bi-annual ranking is facilitated and […]
MONCKS CORNER, SC – A special community meeting to elect a Board of Directors for the Pineville-Russellville Rural Volunteer Fire Department has been set for Tuesday, November 10th. The meeting will be held in the Multi-Purpose Room at the J. K. Gourdine School, located at 1649 Highway 45 in Pineville. The meeting and election will begin at 6:00 PM. The […]
The S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) announced today that the state has suffered its first four flu-associated deaths of the season. “Tragically, individuals from the Upstate, Pee Dee and Lowcountry regions have become our first lab-confirmed, influenza-associated deaths of the season,” said Linda Bell, M.D. and state epidemiologist. “We are in the beginning stages of our state’s […]
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