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NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – Get ready to savor the smoke! Holy Smokes, the annual Lowcountry barbecue festival, is back for its sixth sizzling year on Saturday, November 14. Over 50 of the nation’s best pitmasters will fire up their grills, all while supporting families facing pediatric brain cancer. Admission unlo

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — The Medical University of South Carolina marked a major construction milestone Friday on a new building that will give its College of Medicine its first dedicated home in more than a century. MUSC leaders, faculty, staff and construction crews gathered on the downtown Charleston campus...

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) — North Charleston Police are investigating a crash that has shut down a portion of Rivers Avenue. Police say the crash happened at the intersection of Rivers and Cosgrove Avenues. Because of this, all westbound lanes of Rivers Avenue are closed in that area. No...

What Now reported this week on plans for Columbus-based developer Lifestyle Communities—which has projects in Nashville, Raleigh-Durham, Austin, and other cities—to bring its The Goat restaurant concept to North Charleston’s Ingleside neighborhood. It’s opening at 2949 Ingleside Blvd, Suite 110. Meanwhile, alongside th

Headed up by owner and pitmaster Leonard Botello IV, Truth BBQ is a critically acclaimed Texas barbecue brand. “Botello opened TRUTH BBQ Brenham in a small shack off a rural highway that runs between Austin and Houston in the summer of 2015,” says the Truth BBQ website. “Armed with a used Klose pit as a complete unknow

GOOSE CREEK, S.C. (WCBD) – A months-long narcotics investigation in Berkeley County has resulted in a major drug seizure and arrest, officials announced Friday. On Wednesday, investigators executed a search warrant at a residence in Goose Creek, where approximately 200 grams of methamphetamine, 2.1 grams of pink fentan

LOWCOUNTRY, S.C. (WCIV) — Several school districts have released statements Friday, responding to parents' complaints that school buses have been operating without air conditioning at a time when temperatures are anticipated to reach a record high throughout the Lowcountry. Initially, Charleston County School District

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — A 22-year-old Summerville woman was arrested Wednesday after police said she pointed a handgun at another woman during a dispute in a North Charleston parking lot. North Charleston Police officers responded to a reported weapons incident the evening of June 16 at the O’Reilly...

Charleston native John Ondo has been a pillar in the Lowcountry cuisine scene for more than three decades. Many remember his Mediterranean-inspired restaurant Lana on Rutledge Avenue. After Lana closed in 2017, Ondo ventured to Kiawah Island to be executive chef at the golf resort’s Ocean Course, a seven-year tenure ru

Testimony given by Alex Murdaugh at his first murder trial in the 2021 deaths of his wife and son can be heard by jurors in his upcoming retrial if it meets certain conditions, a judge ruled Friday.