A Kentucky woman is charged with making a bomb threat at a South Carolina airport. Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport Police arrested Laura Snyder Jones of Anchorage, Kentucky, on Saturday, charging her with a first-offense bomb threat. Airport spokesman Tom Tyra tells ...
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Read More »Fifty years isn’t long enough to keep the tears from welling up in Melvin Hamilton’s eyes, eventually spilling onto his face and rolling down his cheeks. He’s usually a cheerful guy. But the peaceful sunroom inside his quiet Lake City ...
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Read More »Authorities say a South Carolina man charged with murder intentionally slammed on his brakes after pulling in front of a motorcycle, causing a fatal crash. Prosecutor Willy Thompson said at a bond hearing Tuesday 43-year-old Joseph Rufo told investigators he ...
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Read More »South Carolina authorities are looking into the finances of Emanuel AME Church, which received millions in donations after a racist attack left nine worshippers at a Bible study dead in 2015. State Law Enforcement Division spokesman Tommy Crosby confirmed the ...
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Read More »BY DAVID EVETTE After more than two years of discussion and debate, new United States Department of Labor (DOL) regulations governing the mandatory payment of overtime for certain exempt white-collar employees are set to go into effect on Jan. 1, ...
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Read More »BY JONATHAN E. FIELDS As the market capitalization of all cryptocurrency approaches $300 billion, it seems a primer on cryptocurrency for divorce practitioners is timely, if not overdue. The basics Digital currency, a form of currency that is available only ...
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Read More »Joseph J. Tierney Jr. and Christine K. Toporek have joined Rogers Townsend & Thomas in its Charleston office. Tierney joins the firm as a shareholder and leads its health care team. Toporek is special counsel in the Charleston office. They ...
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Read More »The Supreme Court is wrestling with a modern-day dispute involving the pirate Blackbeard’s ship that went down off North Carolina’s coast more than 300 years ago. The justices on Tuesday heard arguments in a copyright case over photos and videos ...
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Read More »Despite an opinion by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster says he will continue to fight against taxpayer-funded abortions. In late October the appeals court ruled in favor of a U.S. District Court decision ...
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Read More »Police in North Carolina say they’ve seized about 200 pot-laced pieces of candy. Greenville police said the candy was likely intended to be sold at college parties and not handed out to children. The Greenville Daily Reflector reported Thursday that ...
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