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COLUMBIA (AP) — A South Carolina woman has been arrested for allegedly sending more than 200 harassing messages to someone via social media. News outlets report 50-year-old Kathryn Leigh Witt was charged with harassment on July 1. South Carolina Law ...
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Roberts’ Supreme Court defies easy political labels 
WASHINGTON (AP) — Just hours after Chief Justice John Roberts handed Republicans a huge victory that protects even the most extreme partisan electoral districts from federal court challenge, critics blasted him as worthy of being impeached, a politician who should ...
Read More »Supreme Court to rule on Trump bid to end ‘Dreamers’ program
WASHINGTON (AP) — Adding a high-stakes immigration case to its election-year agenda, the Supreme Court said on June 28 that it will decide whether President Donald Trump can terminate an Obama-era program shielding young migrants from deportation. The justices’ order sets up ...
Read More »Cash injection by lawmakers leads to law school tuition cut
COLUMBIA (AP) — South Carolina residents will pay less to go to the state’s only public law school next year, with the full price of in-state tuition falling $5,100 next year at the University of South Carolina School of Law. ...
Read More »Court decision could set up fights over race gerrymandering
When North Carolina drew its most recent political maps, state leaders split a historically black university in Greensboro into two congressional districts that critics say diluted the voting power of African Americans on campus. Lawmakers defended it as partisan gerrymandering ...
Tagged with: gerrymandering
Read More »Health care, immigration top issues at Democrats’ 1st debate
Ten Democrats railed against a national economy and a Republican administration they argued exist only for the rich as presidential candidates debated onstage for the first time in the young 2020 season, embracing inequality as a defining theme in their ...
Tagged with: democratic debate
Read More »Tech giants face questions on hate speech going into debates
Executives of Facebook, Google and Twitter faced questioning by a House panel Wednesday on their efforts to stanch terrorist content and viral misinformation on their social media platforms. The scrutiny comes as the tech giants step up safety measures to ...
Tagged with: Google
Read More »High court declines to overrule cases on agencies’ power
The Supreme Court is declining to overrule two past cases that had been criticized by conservatives as giving unelected officials vast lawmaking power. The justices ruled Wednesday in a case that was being watched as a sign of how willing ...
Tagged with: U.S.Supreme Court
Read More »Warrant: Mom didn’t call 911 with baby unconscious in crib
Authorities say a 21-year-old woman has been arrested after she found her 4-month-old son unconscious in his crib and left their South Carolina home without telling anyone. An arrest warrant from the State Law Enforcement Division said Rondasha Steward was ...
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Read More »Man charged with killing passenger in other car on highway
Authorities say a 19-year-old man has turned himself in on charges he killed a woman shot while in a car on a South Carolina highway. Chesterfield County deputies said Ryu Deshawn Hough was out on bond for a weapons charge ...
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