Harve Jacobs
Reporter
Charleston, SC
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Professional Experience:
News Director, WCSC Radio, 1979 - 1987
Reporter, WCBD, 1987 - 1992
WCSC-TV July 1994 - present
Awards:
15-time winner of the Charleston City Paper's Top Investigative Reporter Award
2002 South Carolina Broadcaster's Association Star Award for "911, No Emergency" story
News Philosophy:
Be Fair. Be Accurate. Be Informative.
Education:
Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY
Hometown:
Brooklyn, NY
Hobbies/Interests:
Wine-tasting and exercising
Favorite Music:
Contemporary Christian
Likes Best About the Lowcountry:
The choice of restaurants and the friendly people
Most Interesting Assignments:
My series on mail-order brides. I went to the jungles of Peru to follow a man who went to pick up his mail-order bride.
Education
Awards
Updated: Nov. 9, 2020 at 6:40 PM EST
|By Harve Jacobs
A possible breakthrough in the testing of a vaccine for COVID-19 has a Charleston physician confident a vaccine for the virus will become available next year.
Updated: Nov. 4, 2020 at 8:20 AM EST
|By Ray Rivera, Patrick Phillips, Harve Jacobs and Lillian Donahue
Republican Nancy Mace has won the U.S. House 1st Congressional District race beating incumbent Rep. Joe Cunningham.
Updated: Nov. 2, 2020 at 5:57 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips and Harve Jacobs
Some businesses on King Street have boarded up their storefronts the day before the general election.
Updated: Sep. 26, 2020 at 10:23 AM EDT
|By Harve Jacobs
The inmate, 44-year-old Robert Dukes is serving a 15-year sentence for armed robbery at Lieber prison in Ridgeville in Dorchester County.
Updated: Sep. 7, 2020 at 7:52 PM EDT
|By Harve Jacobs and Live 5 Web Staff
A man accused of stabbing the Bonneau police chief in the face with an ice pick is in custody after a standoff with Berkeley County deputies.Forrest Bowman was arrested shortly after 12:30 p.m.
Updated: Aug. 15, 2020 at 12:24 PM EDT
|By Harve Jacobs
Police say in the last 30 days alone they’ve received about 30 reports of guns that were stolen out of unlocked cars.
Updated: Aug. 12, 2020 at 6:40 PM EDT
|By Harve Jacobs
A Moncks Corner town councilman resigned Wednesday afternoon after apologizing for a Facebook post depicting former Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton in blackface.
Updated: Aug. 7, 2020 at 6:44 PM EDT
|By Harve Jacobs
After 65 days in the hospital, 27 of those on a ventilator, a 63-year-old Colleton County man overcame COVID-19.
Updated: Jun. 2, 2020 at 3:08 PM EDT
|By Harve Jacobs
Orlando King, 31, was arrested at an apartment complex on Mole Lane in North Charleston.Charleston police say King was seen on video looting at a bar on upper King Street on Saturday night.
Updated: May. 27, 2020 at 11:22 PM EDT
|By Ray Rivera and Harve Jacobs
Three North Charleston police officers are facing disciplinary actions following an investigation involving the use of force during an encounter with a man which was captured on video.
Updated: May. 21, 2020 at 4:07 PM EDT
|By Harve Jacobs
A man who was killed in a carjacking at an I-26 rest stop last week is being remembered as a friend and father figure by one of his co-workers.
Updated: Apr. 21, 2020 at 1:01 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips and Harve Jacobs
Mount Pleasant Mayor Will Haynie held a news conference Tuesday morning to detail the town’s strategy in reopening businesses.
Updated: Feb. 12, 2020 at 6:09 PM EST
|By Harve Jacobs
Woodland High School officials have cancelled the remaining schedule for its girls junior varsity team after a fight during a game.
Updated: Jan. 2, 2020 at 7:58 PM EST
|By Ray Rivera and Harve Jacobs
Emergency officials say a father and his daughter were killed in a hunting accident when they were mistaken for deer in Colleton County on Wednesday.
Updated: Dec. 19, 2019 at 5:40 PM EST
|By Harve Jacobs
Mt. Pleasant Police arrested 19-year-old Bennett Velasquez Thursday morning. Velasquez is charged with sexual exploitation of minors 3rd degree.
Updated: Dec. 11, 2019 at 6:33 PM EST
|By Harve Jacobs
The suit asks for a jury trial and unspecified damages.
Updated: Dec. 10, 2019 at 8:00 PM EST
|By Harve Jacobs
A 13-year-old student at Morningside Middle School says she’s been attacked two times at the school, most recently on Monday.
Updated: Dec. 3, 2019 at 7:48 PM EST
|By Harve Jacobs
The court papers state SLED opened an investigation that included surveillance, an undercover buy operation and searching the business.
Updated: Nov. 30, 2019 at 10:07 AM EST
|By Harve Jacobs
Three years after a Lowcountry man was gunned down in his car, his father is offering a $20,000 reward for help to solve his murder.
Updated: Nov. 27, 2019 at 5:48 PM EST
|By Harve Jacobs, Carter Coyle and Bill Sharpe
Gov. Henry McMaster says he has selected the police chief of North Charleston to serve as the next director of the state’s Department of Public Safety beginning in February.
Updated: Nov. 8, 2019 at 5:33 PM EST
|By Harve Jacobs
He received a PR bond in court Friday morning.
Updated: Oct. 4, 2019 at 7:36 PM EDT
|By Harve Jacobs
The family of a North Charleston man fatally shot by a police officer during a traffic stop says they are unhappy with the sentence handed down this week to a Dallas officer for murder.
Updated: Sep. 24, 2019 at 7:24 PM EDT
|By Harve Jacobs
Authorities are searching for a suspect in the murder of a Williamsburg County mail carrier.
Updated: Sep. 16, 2019 at 8:06 PM EDT
|By Harve Jacobs
A brawl broke out Monday morning after a court hearing for a murder suspect.
Updated: Sep. 6, 2019 at 8:53 PM EDT
|By Harve Jacobs
A family of eight are homeless are Hurricane Dorian caused a tree to crash into their mobile home.
Updated: Aug. 23, 2019 at 7:34 PM EDT
|By Harve Jacobs
A man told North Charleston Police shots were fired at his vehicle in an apparent road rage incident Thursday night.
Updated: Aug. 14, 2019 at 4:49 PM EDT
|By Harve Jacobs
The North Charleston police department, the Charleston County Sheriff’s Office and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement are investigating a posted fake ICE flyer.
Updated: Aug. 7, 2019 at 8:02 PM EDT
|By Harve Jacobs
Authorities have identified the 13-year-old girl who died after being left in a car in Colleton County. Officials with the Colleton County Coroner’s Office say Cristina Pangalangan died in Ruffin Monday afternoon.
Updated: Jul. 5, 2019 at 6:56 PM EDT
|By Harve Jacobs
Deputies say an elderly woman was forced to live in a shed and was found covered in fleas
Updated: May. 28, 2019 at 8:57 PM EDT
|By Harve Jacobs
Former “Southern Charm” star Thomas Ravenel apparently has a new critic.
Updated: Mar. 12, 2019 at 6:15 PM EDT
|By Harve Jacobs
A Cottageville police officer says he was forced to make a Nazi salute eight years ago.
Updated: Dec. 31, 2018 at 6:34 PM EST
|By Harve Jacobs
The Post & Courier first reported that Dr. Melvin Brown had checked the necessary boxes to become a member at the club, but was rejected in the same meeting when 13 white candidates were admitted at the same meeting.
Updated: Nov. 29, 2018 at 7:45 PM EST
|By Harve Jacobs and Live 5 News Web Staff
Parents of a separate 3-year-old boy from the charges filed Wednesday are suing NewSpring Church and Hazlett claiming the church failed to properly screen and interview Hazlett
Updated: Nov. 28, 2018 at 7:27 PM EST
|By Harve Jacobs
A judge denied bond for a former North Charleston church volunteer facing charges after allegedly performing the sex act in a church restroom.
Updated: Nov. 9, 2018 at 7:19 PM EST
|By Harve Jacobs and Live 5 News Web Staff
Earlier in the night, the MC for the event had gotten on stage at the event and made comments about “Fake News”
Updated: Oct. 26, 2018 at 7:26 PM EDT
|By Harve Jacobs
Twenty-two people have been indicted in connection with a drug ring that spanned multiple South Carolina counties which included Berkeley, Dorchester and Sumter.
Updated: Oct. 24, 2018 at 7:10 PM EDT
|By Harve Jacobs
A just-released report says offshore drilling off the South Carolina would be devastating and cause long-term damage.