South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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South Carolina unconstitutionally suspends the drivers’ licenses of people who haven’t paid traffic tickets without first determining if they can afford to pay, according to a federal lawsuit filed Thursday. The lawsuit backed by the American Civil Liberties Union and ...

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A South Carolina man, arrested for stabbing a woman, says he feared she would feed him to zombies. The Aiken Standard reports 29-year-old William Berry of Aiken was arrested Saturday in Monetta after a woman was stabbed multiple times in ...

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