Hanahan News

Neo-Nazi fliers that upset residents of a Hanahan neighborhood were also left in driveways on James Island.

HANAHAN a ' Police are trying to find out who put neo-Nazi inserts into newspapers in some driveways here Sunday morning.

A controversial flyer was delivered to some Hanahan residents Sunday. The headline on one of the flyers says, "Wake up White America!" The organization that claims to be behind the message: The National Socialist Movement.

The federal government is providing nearly $2 million in stimulus funds to control diesel pollution at the Port of Charleston, the Environmental Protection Agency said Monday.

With the trees bending, limbs flying and rain blowing sideways, she jumped from the pickup truck where she sat waiting out the storm.

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A tornado with winds up to 85 miles per hour ripped through Hanahan Saturday night, damaging houses and toppling over power lines.

The National Weather Service has confirmed that a weak, small-scale tornado touched down this weekend in the marshes of a South Carolina city less than 20 miles from Charleston.

The clean up process begins for folks in Hanahan hit hard by Saturday night's tornado.

Severe storms rolled through the Lowcountry between 7pm to 9:30pm. Tornado warnings were issued for central Charleston county and parts of Berkeley and Dorchester counties.

By Ashley Fletcher Frampton aframpton@scbiznews.com Published May 11, 2009 On May 1, the tax rate on most purchases in Berkeley County rose from 7% to 8%, a result of the transportation sales tax that voters approved in November.

After waking up early one morning, Vesely Murray headed downstairs to the kitchen and was shocked by what she found.

Kris Phillips was an executive assistant for a medical firm and ended up addicted to cocaine, dancing in a strip club and then serving time in prison before cleaning herself up after renewing her faith.

SUMMERVILLE a ' A Bonney Lake, Wash., man was in town this week visiting family when he bought a South Carolina Education Lottery ticket and won $250,000. It was the second time in as many weeks that someone bought a lottery ticket in the Lowcountry and hit it big.

A third suspect in the 2003 staged robbery and shooting of a convenience store worker was arrested Tuesday by Charleston police.

No one suspected that the man at the state lottery claim center on Monday was holding a $1 million ticket.

Two were arrested in a six-year-investigation of the shooting of a convenience store clerk and the robbery of the business.

A 59-year-old man has drowned after he fell into a swimming pool in Hanahan, the fourth person to drown in the Charleston area in the past week.

HANAHAN a ' Guy Stamps couldn't swim, but he loved to spend time at the beach or at his community pool at the Spring Valley Mobile Home Park, his family said.

Two Lowcountry men are dead following separate head-on collisions in Dorchester and Berkeley counties this weekend.