South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

By EMERY P. DALESIO AP Business Writer RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The federal, North Carolina and Virginia governments asked a court Thursday to declare the country’s largest electricity company liable for environmental damage from a leak five years ago that ...

Tagged with: Duke Energy

GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — An inmate suing the South Carolina prison system says he was stabbed inside his cell and couldn’t find an officer to help him. News outlets report 34-year-old Devodus Rouse filed the lawsuit this month, claiming irresponsibility ...

Tagged with: Inmate

WALTERBORO, S.C. (AP) — Authorities say a South Carolina man spiked his live-in girlfriend’s soda with methamphetamine and muscle relaxers, leading her to black out and wake days later severely beaten and bruised. The Colleton County Sheriff’s Office tells news ...

Tagged with: Drug Crime

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Authorities say a man from Georgia came to South Carolina to have sex with a 13-year-old girl and threw her out of his vehicle while speeding away from police. Richland County deputies said an officer saw ...

Tagged with: sexual assault

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A man who federal agents said exploded two bombs outside a South Carolina courthouse had his lawsuit about poor jail conditions in the same county thrown out just days earlier. The ...

Tagged with: sue

COLUMBIA (AP) — Prosecutors say a former South Carolina transportation commissioner told a government witness who had made payments to him to destroy emails before the FBI could find them, according to a sentencing memo filed July 15 in federal court. ...

EDGEFIELD (AP) — Leroy Nolan has spent the last 26 years behind bars at a federal prison for a drug conviction. In the prison factory, he works making T-shirts, backpacks and other products that are later sold to government agencies, ...

COLUMBIA (AP) — A patient at a state mental hospital in South Carolina died earlier this year after being at the bottom of a dogpile of several employees — something specifically prohibited in their training. Three of the 13 employees ...

CHARLESTON (AP) — A former police chief in South Carolina has pleaded guilty to stealing more than $80,000 seized during a traffic stop. Former Manning Police Chief Gary Shaffer will be sentenced at a later date after pleading guilty July 11 to ...

CHARLESTON (AP) — A second police officer in South Carolina has resigned after authorities determined he was writing bogus traffic tickets to drivers without their knowledge. A statement from the Charleston Police Department says officer Blaine Morgan resigned July 10. ...