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NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — A Summerville man was arrested Friday after it was discovered that he was carrying a stolen firearm while at Northwoods Mall, according to the North Charleston Police Department. Carter Luciano Stewart an 18-year-old was arrested and charged with two counts of receiving stolen goods...

With 36.2 million small businesses driving roughly 46% of total U.S. employment, small enterprises remain a major force behind the American economy — but location can make a big difference in long-term entrepreneurial success. To identify the metros where small businesses are best positioned to thrive, CoworkingCafe an

MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (WCSC) — Questions over paid parking, booting practices and business licensing are prompting Mount Pleasant leaders to take a closer look at parking operations around Shem Creek. During a recent committee meeting, town leaders discussed concerns that some businesses may be charging drivers to park

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – Officers arrested a suspect after an alleged assault outside of a homeless shelter in Charleston on Saturday. Officers with the Charleston Police Department responded to the One80 Place shelter on Walnut Street at approximately 10 p.m. after an assault had allegedly occurred in a nearby parkin

MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (WCBD) – Officers with the Mount Pleasant Police Department rescued an unresponsive driver from a vehicle that had driven into a pond on Saturday. Several officers responded to the Meridian Condominiums just after 6 p.m. on Saturday after a vehicle had driven into a pond, with the driver unresponsi

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) — Charleston’s annual Piccolo Spoleto Outdoor Art Exhibition is heading into its final week, but the energy at Marion Square is still going strong. After days of large crowds, vibrant creativity, and one-of-a-kind artwork, both artists and visitors say the festival continues to be a standout cel

In celebration of America’s 250th anniversary, we look back at Charleston’s distinctive July 1976 Bicentennial issue, featuring this cover created by late Mount Pleasant oil painter Charles DeAntonio. Throughout the magazine, then-editor in chief Robert Wintner took an imaginative approach, using Revolutionary War-era

Upper King Street on a Saturday night is not for the faint of heart. Bachelorette sashes tangle with bar crawls, shot specials blare from open doorways, and the collective din could rattle the windows at St. Michael’s. So it takes a particular kind of nerve to open a candlelit Provençal lounge amid the clamor and ask p

On a recent afternoon at Coast Brewing Company near the old Navy Yard, the bar patrons weren’t just drinking beer. Behind the counter, Aiden Merritt was stirring up cocktails—s’more old-fashioneds and clarified milk punches—in between pouring pints of the lagers and ales his father has brewed for nearly two decades.

While the storyline of Porgy and Bess, the Charleston-based opera of redemptive love and loss, may be known over the world, much of its true grandeur has yet to find an audience until now. A documentary, to be previewed during Spoleto Festival USA this month, focuses not on DuBose and Dorothy Heyward or Ira and George