Kasia Kovacs
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Gen Z has a misinformation problem
It is critical to support Generation Z's media literacy skills and help them learn to identify quality information from trustworthy sources. → Read More
In the battered news industry, are nonprofits best equipped to survive?
Without the need to rely on advertisers and instead making money through fundraising and memberships, nonprofit news outlets have proliferated. → Read More
Comment sections aren’t dead (yet)
Comment sections are increasingly viewed as an incubator for name-calling, insults, and sometimes harassment, so media companies have been eliminating them. → Read More
As Protestant churches in South Carolina dwindle, Catholic churches flourish. Here’s why
As South Carolina Protestant churches see declining numbers of churchgoers, the SC Catholic diocese is experiencing a growth in parishioners. This is thanks to retirees and an increasing Hispanic population, including in Beaufort County. → Read More
Church in a bar? SC churches are thinking outside the steeple to reach new members
As church attendance declines across South Carolina, some churches are taking new tacks to reach their communities, including meeting in unconventional locations such as bars, piers and movie theaters. → Read More
Savannah Police arrest 16 in undercover prostitution stings. Here’s what we know
The Savannah, Georgia, Police Department arrested 16 men and women for prostitution, pandering, sexual battery, drug possession, battery of an officer, and disorderly conduct in a sex trafficking sting. → Read More
Beaufort family didn’t have much luck with the fish. Then a deer ended up in the boat
Beaufort family sees doe and fawn while on fishing trip near St. Helena Island, South Carolina. When the baby deer jumped in the water, a SC woman rescued the fawn and returned it to the mother. → Read More
Surprise! Hilton Head tourist catches a stingray, then helps it give birth, video shows
A Hilton Head, SC, catch-and-release fisherman hooked a pregnant stingray in the Sea Pines resort. The South Carolina tourist aided the stingray in giving birth and released the babies into the Atlantic Ocean. → Read More
Lowcountry Sunday school teacher, father of 5 faces 60 years on child porn charges
A man from Charleston County, South Carolina, was arrested for keeping and sharing hundreds of images and videos of child pornography. Some of the images depicted rape and included toddlers, Charleston police say → Read More
Animals evacuated after Savannah pet store employees complained of an ‘explosion’
After employees at a PetSmart in Savannah, Georgia, reported smelling chemicals, hearing an explosion, and feeling nauseated, firefighters evacuated customers and animals from the pet store. Nothing hazardous was found. → Read More
HGTV viewers voted. A historic Beaufort home won. Check out the $1.5 million house
A Beaufort, South Carolina, house won an HGTV Homes with History contest. Voters chose the former slave Robert Smalls’ house in SC as the winner for its historic features, which beat other real estate properties. → Read More
Two shootings. Two fatalities. Here’s what we know about a deadly evening in Savannah
The Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department responded to shootings in the Georgia city Monday night. Two victims died from gunshot wounds, and both cases of violence remain under investigation. → Read More
You could be living in the prettiest town in South Carolina, says Architectural Digest
Beaufort, SC is the winner of another contest, as Architectural Digest named it the most picturesque town in South Carolina. Historic homes and bed-and-breakfasts make this Lowcountry city a Southern vacation spot. → Read More
Charles Fraser transformed Hilton Head. Now you can buy his own private island
Charles Fraser and Stan Smith once escaped to Gull Island, a private retreat in Sea Pines on Hilton Head Island. Now the private island is for sale for $8.5 million, making it an expensive real estate property in the Lowcountry and South Carolina. → Read More
Sean Penn was spotted in unlikely places in Savannah this weekend. Here's what he was doing
Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn met with Youth Commission in Savannah, Ga., on Sunday as a part of the J/P Haitian Relief Organization. Penn hopes to get teenagers involved with emergency response preparedness. → Read More
Bioterrorism a threat for water system in Beaufort County, SC, says utility
Fire safety is lacking in parts of Beaufort County, South Carolina because of no hydrants. But the county government and Beaufort Jasper Water & Sewer Authority do not consider hydrant locations to be subject to public record, citing contamination concerns. → Read More
Beaufort County homeowners pay for fire protection. Here's why some say they're not getting it
Fire hydrants in northern Beaufort County, South Carolina, are sparse in rural areas, like the Seabrook Point community. Fire departments like the Burton Fire District say they don't have enough protection resources to adequately fight disasters. → Read More
'We've failed them': How SC's education policy hurts Dreamers
South Carolina's undocumented students, known as Dreamers, leave the state to attend college because of S.C. laws that charge them higher tuition. That hurts the state's economy, experts say. → Read More
How to fix painful footwear at RBC Heritage: Some donated their shoes
When fashion becomes painful at the RBC Golf Tournament on Hilton Head, South Carolina, some spectators donated their shoes or heels and bought flip flops or flats from Hawaiian footwear brand Olukai instead. → Read More
10 winning outfits on Hilton Head from the last day of RBC Heritage
On Sunday, the final day of RBC Heritage Golf Tournament, no body knew what the weather would bring at Sea Pines on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. Spectators dressed in fashionable outfits while preparing for rain and a possible tornado. → Read More