A former chief financial officer who pleaded guilty to embezzling $1.2 million from a South Carolina school district now is accused of stealing money from a friend’s business. The Post and Courier reports the state attorney general’s office says 61-year-old ...
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Read More »Rivers swelling with the floodwaters of former Hurricane Florence are threatening to swamp communities near the South Carolina coast, leaving thousands ready to evacuate. More than a week after Florence crashed into the Carolinas, dumping heavy rains, all that water ...
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Read More »South Carolina’s governor has suspended the chief prosecutor in Columbia after he was indicted on 26 charges he misspent public funds. Gov. Henry McMaster’s order Wednesday puts state Deputy Attorney General Heather Weiss in charge of the 5th Circuit Solicitor’s ...
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Read More »It’s easy to make missteps when navigating the complex environment of the courtroom. That’s especially true for matters involving pure judgment calls, such as the right tone to adopt with witnesses and the jury. Two potentially treacherous areas that ...
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Read More »An attorney has asked a Spartanburg County judge not to dismiss a lawsuit filed by 10 courthouse employees who say they got sick from exposure to mold in the courthouse. The Spartanburg Herald-Journal reports that attorney Jan Hinson filed the ...
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Read More »A Samsung Electronics America spokeswoman said the continued tariffs on foreign-made washing machines and parts imported to the United States have been a challenge for the company’s new manufacturing operation in Newberry County. The South Korea-based appliance manufacturer opened its S.C. washing machine ...
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Read More »The chief prosecutor for South Carolina’s capital city was indicted Tuesday on more than two dozen charges related to the misspending of public funds on trips to foreign countries including the Netherlands and the Galapagos Islands. In documents released to ...
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Read More »As larger companies build stronger, more fortified layers of cybersecurity, bad actors are increasingly going after small and midsize businesses they consider more vulnerable, according to an executive from an Atlanta cybersecurity company. Spencer Cobb, director of strategic sales for Cytellix, ...
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Read More »The South Carolina Court has declared the days of Tuesday, Sept. 11 through Friday, Sept. 21 to be statewide “holidays” for the purposes of computing time under various statewide rulebooks, meaning that attorneys will have more time to meet deadlines ...
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Read More »Throwing a lifeline to a city surrounded by floodwaters, emergency crews delivered food and water to Wilmington on Monday as rescuers picked up more people stranded by Hurricane Florence and the storm’s remnants took aim at the densely populated Northeast. ...
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