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A storm has a way of making people focus on what’s important.

A three-member panel will meet Friday to discuss its search for a new head of the agency that oversees the state’s largest airport.

Sunny skies and high temperatures near 80 degrees will dominate the Charleston area’s forecast well into next week, the National Weather Service said Friday.

No major wrecks were reported on Charleston-area roads Friday morning, though traffic was building on parts of eastbound Interstate 26.

Taking selfies is out. Live-stream is the new way to express yourself and show the world what’s going on in your life. Using a smartphone or tablet, your circle of friends, family, business associates or fans see you in live video and audio over the internet.

App to skip the line at airports

A man shocked with a Taser and paralyzed by a Charleston County deputy’s bullet will get $600,000 in a settlement from his excessive force lawsuit.

CRONMILLER, Mary W., 92, of Mount Pleasant, a retired librarian and widow of Bruce W. Cronmiller, died Wednesday. Arrangements by Stuhr’s Mount Pleasant Chapel.

BANES, Ramon, Goose Creek

Col. Willard Selleck Gideon, a retired deputy commander of resource management for the 437th Airlift Wing at the Charleston Air Force Base, a Vietnam prisoner of war and widower of Jeannine H. Gideon, died Monday, Oct. 10, 2016. He was 85.