South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina county where Carolina Panthers owner David Tepper started building and then abandoned a new practice facility has reached a settlement over $21 million in sales tax money given to the NFL team.  Tepper ...

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Members of three South Carolina House were sworn into office recently with a new speaker serving his first full term and nearly a quarter of the representatives newly elected.  Speaker Murrell Smith was unanimously elected along ...

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster is turning to an experienced friend to lead January’s inauguration ceremonies for his second term.  Bill Stern and his wife, Linda, will lead the Inaugural Committee planning the events, including McMaster ...

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South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster recently took action to block access to the social media platform TikTok from all state government electronic devices managed by the South Carolina Department of Administration.  The governor made the request in a letter to ...

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A judge will determine whether evidence of disbarred South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh’s alleged financial crimes are admissible in an upcoming double-murder trial that has drawn worldwide attention for its bizarre twists. Prosecutors recently said that ...

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster is facing voters one last time in his four-decade political career, asking them to help make him the longest-serving governor the state has ever had. McMaster is running against Democrat Joe ...

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By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — When a government document mysteriously appeared earlier this week in the highest profile case in the federal court system, it had the hallmarks of another explosive storyline in the Justice Department’s investigation ...

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Dylann Roof’s death sentence and conviction in the 2015 racist slayings of nine members of a Black South Carolina congregation should be upheld and don’t merit review by the U.S. Supreme Court, attorneys for the federal ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina election officials are putting the names of Labor Party candidates for governor and U.S. House on November’s ballots despite a request from one of the party’s leaders to keep them off.  One co-chair of ...

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The nation’s ninth-busiest port is at risk of pollution by more than 100,000 gallons of fuel from a Navy aircraft carrier that served in World War II and the Vietnam War before its decommissioning and designation as a National Historic ...

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