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Charleston

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Temperature: 43.7 °F

Humidity: 73 %
Wind Speed: 4 mph NNE
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Dew Point: 36 °F
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• S.C. House set to rearrange its chairs
  

  Three influential leadership posts are in the balance as the state House of Representatives meets this week to assign committees and elect chairmen.

• Delfin Group USA plans North Charleston expansion
  

  Russiaa s Delfin Group USA, also known as Project Bluewater, is looking to add 160 jobs at the former Shell Lubricants plant on Virginia Avenue in North Charleston.

• Traffic deaths down in SC this year
  

  Traffic deaths are down nearly 17 percent so far this year in South Carolina. The Post and Courier of Charleston reported Monday that there have been 802 traffic deaths in the state between Jan.

• Fire guts house on Rutledge Ave.
  

  Fire gutted a 77-year-old Charleston man's home early Thursday morning. Thomas Bennett said a smoke alarm awoke him.

• Suspect arrested in N. Charleston
  

  Tom Hubbard, an assistant manager at a Chick-fil-A in North Charleston, had just finished his shift Friday night and was counting money in the safe when he felt someone press a gun to his head.

• Holiday Greetings to Charleston from the Obama Family
  30 second video card from the Obama Family
  In this season of good cheer, this wonderful holiday 30 second video card comes from the 44th US President-elect Barack Obama, his wife, Michelle, and his two daughters, Malia and Sasha. View and enjoy his family's greeting to Americans in their homes and communities across the nation. Our differences not withstanding, take the time to wish each other glading tidings and good cheer!
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• North Charleston police charge 2 suspects in robberies
  

  The game of hard-to-get might be over for a wigged bank robber. Police think they have identified a man who wore a long woman's hairpiece during the Nov.

• Woman's home destroyed
  

  A North Charleston woman suffered from smoke inhalation early Saturday after a fireplace ember started a blaze.

• Dead on beach: Jaws
  

  Jon Geddings, a fisheries scientist with the S.C. Department of Natural Resources, examines the 13-foot, 2-inch female great white shark that was discovered washed ashore on Morris Island last week.

• Shots fired, 2 hurt at Thanksgiving parade in S.C.
  

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• S.C. monks finding new labor after egg controversy
  

  Nearly two years ago, the quiet lives of Trappist monks in South Carolina were disrupted by accusations they were mistreating chickens in their egg business.

• How a running shrimp became a Web star
  

  Many Americans feel as if they're on a treadmill these days, running as fast as they can just to stay in the same place amid plummeting home prices, wild stock market gyrations and rising unemployment.

• A Chicago mentor in the White House who will have Obama's Ear
  

  With her long term, close ties to the President-elect, Valarie Jarrett maybe the most powerful Black woman in America

• Charleston's night of holiday jazz
  Wednesday, November 26, 2008, an editorial in the Charleston Post and Courier. Editorial Endorses Night of Big Band Jazz Entertainment
  Times are tough for local arts organizations, and in that context, the community should extend an especially rousing welcome to perhaps the youngest member of the group. The Charleston Jazz Orchestra will perform a program of holiday music, including Duke Ellington's "Nutcracker Suite," tonight at the Charleston Music Hall. Big bands have long struggled to survive as musical tastes have changed and the youthful audience for "swing" has diminished. But the 20-member CJO, created this year, is happy evidence that the tradition prevails. The orchestra, conducted by Charlton Singleton, hopes to serve as Charleston's "big band" for years to come. It owes its existence to dedicated musicians who want to keep mainstream jazz alive. And like other arts groups, its continued viability will depend on audience interest and community support. "We think we have among the best, if not the best, jazz musicians in the area," said local jazz historian Jack McCray, who is serving as impresario for the event. Proceeds will benefit ongoing efforts to promote jazz education and preserve its history in Charleston. As Mr. McCray has noted, Charleston was a founding center for jazz - the most American of musical forms. On our Commentary page, George Stevens, director of the Community Foundation, details the difficulties of operating nonprofits, including arts organizations, in the current economic climate. Musical groups are among those shining "points of light," and offer much of what makes life most enjoyable. Enjoy listening to the Charleston Jazz Orchestra tonight.

• Majority Whip Jim Clyburn calls State Senator's Remarks "Strange"
  

  State Senator Robert Ford (D) criticized U.S. House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn(D) of South Carolina of Trading on Obama Support

• 2 die in SC when car hits mailbox, tree
  

  Walterboro, S.C. Two people have died in a wreck north of Walterboro after a pickup truck ran off a road and hit a mailbox and a tree.

• Charleston to benefit from delaying development again
  

  City web site, showing plans for the park area of Concord Park : Plans to develop 200 homes and a 100-room hotel on city-owned land that brackets Concord Park in Charleston have been delayed because of economic ...

• Zumalt: Progress made
  

  Police Chief Jon Zumalt thinks the latest crime rankings do not reflect the efforts made in North Charleston.

• Charleston Fire Department graduates record number of recruits
  

  Charleston fire officials on Monday welcomed aboard the largest group of recruits in the department's history, boosting manpower and efforts to bring the agency in line with national guidelines.

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City Description

Charleston is a city in Charleston county in the U.S. state of South Carolina. It is the largest city and county seat of Charleston County. The city was founded as Charlestown or Charles Towne, Carolina in 1670, and moved to its present location (Oyster Point) from a location on the west bank of the Ashley River in 1680; it adopted its present name in 1783. In 1690, Charleston was the fifth largest city in North America, and remained among the ten largest cities in the United States through the 1840 census. Charleston is known as The Holy City due to the prominence of churches on the low-rise cityscape, particularly the numerous steeples which dot the city's skyline, and for the fact that it was one of the few cities in the original thirteen colonies to provide religious tolerance to the French Huguenot Church. In fact, it is still the only city in the U.S. with such a church. Charleston was also one of the first colonial cities to allow Jews to practice their faith without restriction. Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim, founded in 1749, is the fourth oldest Jewish congregation in the continental United States. Brith Shalom Beth Israel is the oldest Orthodox shul in the South, founded by

City Contained By:

• Charleston County
• South Carolina

City Contains:

• Blackbaud Stadium
• Nathaniel Russell House
• Market Hall and Sheds
• Charleston Southern University
• Family Circle Magazine Stadium
• Johnson Hagood Stadium
• Charleston School of Law
• Dock Street Theatre
• College of Charleston School of Business and Economics
• Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim Synagogue
• The Art Institute of Charleston
• Gibbes Museum of Art

Timezones:

• North American Eastern Time Zone

Size:

• 461.276882451 km squared

City Featured in Films:

• Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
• An Occasional Hell
• Chasers
• Cold Mountain
• Consenting Adults
• Deceiver
• Die Hard: With a Vengeance
• For the Boys
• Major League: Back to the Minors
• O
• Other Voices, Other Rooms
• Paradise
• The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
• The Great Santini
• The In Crowd
• The Jackal
• The Legend of Bagger Vance
• The Lords of Discipline
• The Notebook
• The Patriot
• The Prince of Tides
• White Squall

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