MORNING HEADLINES | The frigid impacts of the weekend storm named Ferm are now being linked to six deaths in South Carolina, officials say.
Among them was a reportedly homeless 59-year-old Charleston County man who is believed to have died from hypothermia, state Department of Public officials said. Meanwhile, a Charleston County Coroner’s Office official said today that the man’s official cause of death on Jan. 27 was pending an autopsy, but that his death ” was related to Winter Storm Fern.”
Officials also said four other people died in recent days from hypothermia, including an 85-year-old Laurens County man on Wednesday; a 91-year-old Laurens County woman on Friday; an 83-year-old Lexington County woman and a 96-year-old Greenwood County woman. In Oconee County, a 79-year-old man died as a result of a slip-and-fall accident involving ice leftover from the storm…