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.
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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.
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Republican Nancy Mace has won the U.S. House 1st Congressional District race beating incumbent Rep. Joe Cunningham.
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Some businesses on King Street have boarded up their storefronts the day before the general election.
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The inmate, 44-year-old Robert Dukes is serving a 15-year sentence for armed robbery at Lieber prison in Ridgeville in Dorchester County.
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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.
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Police say in the last 30 days alone they’ve received about 30 reports of guns that were stolen out of unlocked cars.
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A Moncks Corner town councilman resigned Wednesday afternoon after apologizing for a Facebook post depicting former Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton in blackface.
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After 65 days in the hospital, 27 of those on a ventilator, a 63-year-old Colleton County man overcame COVID-19.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Mount Pleasant Mayor Will Haynie held a news conference Tuesday morning to detail the town’s strategy in reopening businesses.
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Woodland High School officials have cancelled the remaining schedule for its girls junior varsity team after a fight during a game.
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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.
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Mt. Pleasant Police arrested 19-year-old Bennett Velasquez Thursday morning. Velasquez is charged with sexual exploitation of minors 3rd degree.
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The suit asks for a jury trial and unspecified damages.
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A 13-year-old student at Morningside Middle School says she’s been attacked two times at the school, most recently on Monday.
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The court papers state SLED opened an investigation that included surveillance, an undercover buy operation and searching the business.
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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.
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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.
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He received a PR bond in court Friday morning.
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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.
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Authorities are searching for a suspect in the murder of a Williamsburg County mail carrier.
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A brawl broke out Monday morning after a court hearing for a murder suspect.
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A family of eight are homeless are Hurricane Dorian caused a tree to crash into their mobile home.
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A man told North Charleston Police shots were fired at his vehicle in an apparent road rage incident Thursday night.
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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.
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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.
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Deputies say an elderly woman was forced to live in a shed and was found covered in fleas
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Former “Southern Charm” star Thomas Ravenel apparently has a new critic.
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A Cottageville police officer says he was forced to make a Nazi salute eight years ago.
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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.
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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
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A judge denied bond for a former North Charleston church volunteer facing charges after allegedly performing the sex act in a church restroom.
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Earlier in the night, the MC for the event had gotten on stage at the event and made comments about “Fake News”
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Twenty-two people have been indicted in connection with a drug ring that spanned multiple South Carolina counties which included Berkeley, Dorchester and Sumter.
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A just-released report says offshore drilling off the South Carolina would be devastating and cause long-term damage.