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Home>Meg Kinnard, Associated Press

Meg Kinnard, Associated Press

Recent Articles from Meg Kinnard, Associated Press

Headlines March 31, 2022

Filing period closes for South Carolina’s primary elections

COLUMBIA (AP) — The candidate field is set for South Carolina’s 2022 elections, which feature a competitive Democratic gubernatorial primary, a wide-open education superintendent race and a pair of intraparty congressional battles featuring Republican incumbents fending off challengers backed by former President Donald Trump. Filing for candidates in state, federal and local offices closed[...]

Headlines February 7, 2022

Childs gets prosecutors’ ‘wholehearted’ backing for DC court

COLUMBIA (AP) — A bipartisan group of two dozen former South Carolina federal prosecutors are offering their “wholehearted support” for Judge Michelle Childs’ nomination to an appellate court, an elevation that’s on hold due to Childs’ consideration for an even higher post — the U.S. Supreme Court. “Not only is Judge Childs fair to all […]

Headlines February 3, 2022

From early on, Childs seen as ‘destined for further things’

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — When she hired Michelle Childs to practice employment law in the early 1990s right out of school, Vickie Eslinger says she knew there was something different about the freshly minted South Carolina attorney. “I immediately identified her as someone that nobody was going to outwork,” Eslinger said. “As soon as you […]

Headlines February 1, 2022

Clyburn, architect of Biden’s court pledge, pushes his pick

COLUMBIA (AP) — At President Joe Biden’s lowest moment in the 2020 campaign, South Carolina Rep. Jim Clyburn came to him with a suggestion: He should pledge to put the first Black woman on the Supreme Court. After some cajoling, Biden made the promise at a Democratic debate, a move Clyburn credits with turning out […]

Headlines December 1, 2021

South Carolina abortion appellate hearing moved to January

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Appellate arguments over a lawsuit challenging South Carolina’s abortion law have been pushed into the new year. Oral arguments in the case had originally been planned for next month, but the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has rescheduled them for the last week in January, according to an order from […]

Headlines November 17, 2021

Rickenmann wins runoff to become next mayor of Columbia

COLUMBIA (AP) — Daniel Rickenmann, a longtime city council member backed by Republicans, has been chosen as the mayor of South Carolina’s capital city, a victory that came despite heavy-hitting Democratic endorsements for his opponent. Rickenmann won Tuesday’s runoff election over Tameika Isaac Devine, becoming only Columbia’s third mayor in just over 30 years. The […]

Headlines November 15, 2021

Hugh Leatherman, stalwart state senator, dies at 90

COLUMBIA (AP) — State Sen. Hugh Leatherman, South Carolina’s oldest and most powerful state lawmaker, died Friday at the age of 90. Leatherman died at his home in Florence, his office said, after being diagnosed with an inoperable cancer. As he entered hospice care last month, Leatherman’s staff began notifying lawmakers that the nonagenarian Republican […]

Headlines November 2, 2021

Union seeks Biden admin’s help in Charleston port dispute

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — As port logjams across the country continue to constrain the U.S. supply chain, the union that represents dockworkers at South Carolina’s ports tells The Associated Press it is calling on the Biden administration for help in a dispute related to a new shipping terminal. But the chief executive in charge of […]

Headlines October 29, 2021

US to pay $88M to families, victims of SC church massacre

WASHINGTON (AP) — Families of nine victims killed in a racist attack at a Black South Carolina church have reached a settlement with the Justice Department over a faulty background check that allowed Dylann Roof to purchase the gun he used in the 2015 massacre. The Justice Department will pay $88 million, which includes $63 […]

Headlines August 4, 2021

Top prosecutor: Univ of South Carolina can’t require masks

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The University of South Carolina can’t lawfully require students and staff to wear face coverings on campus this fall, despite increasing cases of coronavirus, thanks to recent legislative action, according to the state’s top prosecutor. Last week, university officials announced that they would require “face coverings to be worn at all […]

Headlines June 16, 2021

South Carolina inmates want deaths delayed during appeal

Days before what could be South Carolina’s first execution in a decade, the two inmates scheduled to die this month under the state’s recently revamped capital punishment statute want an emergency order to stop their planned electrocutions while they appeal their cases. Brad Sigmon and Freddie Owens on Tuesday asked the 4th Circuit Court of […]

Headlines March 30, 2021

Appellate court arguments set for Charleston church shooter

COLUMBIA (AP) — Attorneys for the man sentenced to federal death row for the racist slayings of nine members of a Black South Carolina congregation are set to formally argue that his conviction and death sentence should be overturned. Oral arguments have been set for May 25 before the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals […]

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